Paramount Pictures has acquired screen rights to the Max Brooks novel "World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War." Brad Pitt's Plan B will produce.

Written by the author of the satire "The Zombie Survival Guide," Barry's follow-up sparked a bidding battle between Paramount and Pitt, with Warner Bros. and Leonardo DiCaprio's Appian Way on the other side of the table.

The book is a sober telling of the aftermath of a war fought against a legion of humans who were inflicted with a virus, died and were reanimated into flesh-eating zombies.-comingsoon.net

-Zavier

Quoted Text J. Michael Straczynski, the creator of the sci-fi series Babylon 5 who has also become a popular comic book scribe in recent years, announced yesterday that he is writing the screenplay adaptation of the zombie book World War Z for Paramount. The Max Brooks novel, which was optioned last summer by the studio for Brad Pitt's production company Plan B, is subtitled An Oral History of the Zombie War.

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I heard this a while back, and I'm reallly excited for this! I just can't believe the writer is trying to get Brad Pitt to star in it. I never really saw him as a...zombie reporter (that's if they're trying to get him to be the role of Max Brookes).

But I am crazy about this and I can't wait to see how they'll create a movie from this book. There were some pretty crazy stories in there from people who survived the zombie attack, and I can't wait to see how they put it on screen.

Sean