Max Brooks

Will Smith’s Overbrook to produce Harlem Hellfighters movie, plus author to sign copies at upcoming event

Variety reports that Sony Pictures has acquired the rights to World War Z author Max Brooks’ graphic novel The Harlem Hellfighters for Overbrook Entertainment to adapt into a film. According to the report, Jada Pinkett Smith’s younger brother Caleeb Pinkett, and James Lassiter will produce The Harlem Hellfighters movie for Overbrook, with author Brooks writing ….

Pitt Attacks Zombie Book Deal

According to the Hollywood Reporter, Brad Pitt’s Plan B Productions has beaten out Leonardo DiCaprio’s Appian Way Productions in a bidding war over the upcoming zombie horror novel by Max Brooks called World War Z. Plan B and Paramount Pictures won the rights to the story, which tackles the zombie genre, and is set 10 years after a global epidemic. It’s being described ….