Brad Pitt, through his production company Plan B, has teamed with Paramount Pictures and acquired the rights to film the as yet un-released novel “World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War,” written by author Max Brooks. The book will be in book stores in the Fall of 2006. Brooks is also the writer of the satirical 2003 book “The Zombie Survival Guide.”

“World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War” is the story of survival set in a world 10-years after a war fought against a legion of humans who were inflicted with a virus, died and were reanimated into flesh-eating zombies.

There is no official word yet on whether Pitt will be involved beyond the production end of the project.