Max Brooks — whose book was the basis for Brad Pitt’s latest blockbuster “World War Z” — is more impressed with old-school Hollywood. The scribe was seen the day after the zombie film’s Ziegfeld Theatre premiere at the St. Regis’ swanky tea room, the Astor Court, with his dad, “The Producers” mastermind Mel Brooks. When a fellow tea sipper asked Max if he was starstruck working on his first feature extravaganza, he said because of his dad’s influence on him growing up in Hollywood, “My idea of the really big time is still Gene Wilder.” Pitt, meanwhile, scrapped a plan to appear in Brazil today to promote the film because of civil unrest in the country, Paramount said. Max’s next film, “The Great Wall,” stars “Man of Steel” Henry Cavill.
‘World War Z’ author more impressed by old school H’wood
