Brad Pitt's Plan B production company has beaten out Leo DiCaprio's Appian Way in a fierce bidding war over an upcoming zombie horror book by Max Brooks titled "World War Z" says The Hollywood Reporter.

Plan B/Paramount won the rights yesterday afternoon to the story which tackles the zombie genre but is set 10 years after a great global zombie epidemic. It's described as a serious oral history of the future zombie told from many perspectives from around the world.

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. 'War Z' hits bookstores this Fall.