From DHD – Lionsgate has closed a deal with Mike White (the screenwriter behind Nacho Libre and School of Rock, he most recently directed Year of the Dog) to direct Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, the feature adaptation of Seth Grahame-Smith’s novel mash-up of Jane Austen and the undead.
David O. Russell (Three Kings) was previously attached to direct, but he left the project. Natalie Portman showed an early interest in playing the female lead, but she is now only producing the picture along with her handsomecharlie partner Annette Savich, and Darko Entertainment. When Portman left the role, Russell wanted Scarlett Johansson and Bradley Cooper for the leads – it’s unclear if the two actors will stay involved with the project now that it has a new director.
Book Jacket:
“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains.”
So begins Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, an expanded edition of the beloved Jane Austen novel featuring all-new scenes of bone-crunching zombie mayhem. As our story opens, a mysterious plague has fallen upon the quiet English village of Meryton and the dead are returning to life! Feisty heroine Elizabeth Bennet is determined to wipe out the zombie menace, but she’s soon distracted by the arrival of the haughty and arrogant Mr. Darcy.
What ensues is a delightful comedy of manners with plenty of civilized sparring between the two young lovers and even more violent sparring on the blood-soaked battlefield as Elizabeth wages war against hordes of flesh-eating undead.
Can she vanquish the spawn of Satan? And overcome the social prejudices of the class-conscious landed gentry? Complete with romance, heartbreak, swordfights, cannibalism, and thousands of rotting corpses, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies transforms a masterpiece of world literature into something you’d actually want to read
You can read an excerpt here.
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