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World War Z

  • 16-06-2006 2:15pm
    #1
    humanji
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,976 ✭✭✭✭


    From Yahoo News, apparently Brad Pitt's and Leonardo DiCaprio's production companies were trying to get the rights to this book:
    LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - It was a battle between
    Brad Pitt and
    Leonardo DiCaprio, and Pitt emerged the winner.
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    The production labels of the two stars -- Pitt's Plan B and DiCaprio's Appian Way -- were engaged in a competitive bidding war through their respective studios, Paramount Pictures and Warner Bros. Pictures, over an upcoming zombie horror book by Max Brooks titled "World War Z."

    By Wednesday afternoon, the dust settled with Plan B/Paramount winning the movie rights.

    In 2003, Brooks wrote "Zombie Survival Guide," which explained in great deadpan detail how to survive a supposedly impending zombie apocalypse. The book went on to become a surprise cult hit.

    "World War Z" also tackles the zombie genre but is set 10 years after a great global zombie epidemic and is a serious oral history of the zombie future told from many perspectives around the world. Crown Publishing is putting the book out in the fall.

    The galleys of the book went out around town late last week, but interest took awhile to ignite. By the time execs finally realized they had a potential "tentpole" franchise, the battle lines were drawn between Plan B and Appian Way.

    The bidding went back and forth between the two into Tuesday night and carried over into Wednesday. Sources say the rights sold for six figures, with the deal going to seven figures if the film actually gets made.

    Brooks was a writer on "Saturday Night Live" from 2001 to 2003 and did voice work on the "Justice League" cartoon series.

    There are said to be no hard feelings between the companies, and DiCaprio is starring in "The Departed," the
    Martin Scorsese crime drama that Pitt and his Plan B are producing.

    Reuters/Hollywood Reporter

    Link

    Hopefully it'll be good, but then again, it's not a remake so hollywood may not want to bother with it :rolleyes:


Comments

  • #2
    projectmayhem
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,480 ✭✭✭projectmayhem


    jomanji wrote:
    it's not a remake so hollywood may not want to bother with it :rolleyes:

    wouldn't surprise me in the slightest...


  • #3
    Nodferatu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,378 ✭✭✭Nodferatu


    its coming out in 2011/2012 apparently and brad pitt will be lead role


  • #4
    Richard Dower
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 21,634 ✭✭✭✭Richard Dower


    Seriously?....a four year old thread?? + there is already a bigger WW-Z thread.


  • #5
    Sad Professor
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    Richard Dower wrote: »
    Seriously?....a four year old thread?? + there is already a bigger WW-Z thread.

    +1

    Please don't bump threads this old. I'm locking this. Here's a link to the more recent thread:

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055976648


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