So, word around ye ol’ rumor mill is that David O. Russell, director of Three Kings, I Heart Huckabees and the ever popular Christmas classic Spank The Monkey may be taking on the movie version of Jane Austen’s – Seth Graham-Smith’s adapted ‘Pride And Prejudice And Zombies’. Which is also rumored to be starring Natalie Portman in the lead role of Elizabeth Bennett!
If your not familiar with the work, this is what Chronicle Books has to say. “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, sword-fights, 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.
