Elizabeth Bennet and Her Sisters about to Become Zombie Slayers
Classic Jane Austen novel gets a much different adaptation
Personally I think zombie movies have just about run their course. There is nothing left to do with the genre seeing how any premise you devise always resorts to the fact your main villains are slow moving groaners. Sure, the idea of "fast zombies" has been tried, but the idea that makes things any better is simply ridiculous in my mind. However, I wonder if the new novel by Los Angeles-based TV comedy writer Seth Grahame-Smith titled "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies" will add anything to the genre that has been lacking for all these years.
The parody of Jane Austen's novel is due to be published in April and Hollywood studios are apparently already bidding to turn the new book into a blockbuster movie accoding to the Herald Sun (via Film Drunk) as it tells the story of Elizabeth Bennet and her four sisters as they become zombie slayers and are taught how to fight like Japanese ninjas by Mr Darcy. More than anything, the Japanese ninjas aspect is what makes this interesting to me.
Grahame-Smith gives some choice quotes to the Herald Sun, here's how it reads:
"It quickly became obvious that Jane (Austen) had laid down the blueprint for a zombie novel," The Sunday Times quoted Grahame-Smith as saying.
"Why else in the original should a regiment arrive on Lizzie Bennet's doorstep when they should have been off fighting Napoleon?
"It was to protect the family from an invasion of brain-eaters, obviously."
Grahame-Smith said about 85 per cent of his novel is Austen's original text.
"I hated her when I was forced to read Austen in school, but when I started re-reading I realised she was a brutal, but very funny, satirist," he said.
"I can only aspire to be as mean-spirited as she could be."
I must admit, I am curious to see how this one would turn out. Perhaps it could be Keira Knightley's next period piece as she could bring a new twist to the character she played in her Oscar nominated role as Bennet in 2005.
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This sounds unassailably cool. It'd be pretty sweet if they could get the cast from the 2005 adaptation of Pride & Prejudice to be in this.
This is the editor of the book talking about Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.
http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/publishing/jane_austens_zombie_viral_bestseller_108083.asp?c=rss
Ugh this is just ruining my favorite book.
Aargh..why didn't I think of this? In high school? It seems like such an obvious idea and fits so naturally and perfectly, yet it hasn't occured to anybody before this. Though Mr. Darcy training the girls to fight like Japanese ninjas sounds like overkill. It may still be great, who knows?
On a side note though, I wasn't aware that Austen works were public domain.
WTeffingF? The premise sounds really, really funny, but the description is very vague. It won't replace the real thing, though. Never ever.