The film adaptation of the best-selling novel Pride and Prejudice and Zombies has been trying to get off the ground for a few years now to no avail. There have been a few false starts, different directors and actors attached to the film but nothing has panned out. The project had seemingly fizzled out but news came in today that the film has a new director and star attached which now gives the film more in common with the zombies of its title since it is literally back from the dead as well. Read on for all the info.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Burr Steers is now on board to direct the adaptation of the Seth Grahame-Smith mash-up novel, being financed by Panorama, and Lily Collins is set to star in the film.
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is back from the dead. The adaptation of the breakout mash-up novel by Seth Grahame-Smith was originally set up at Lionsgate with Natalie Portman attached to star.
But the producers — Portman, Annette Savitch, Richard Kelly, and Sean McKittrick — never lost hope and like a member of the living dead going after a piece of meat, kept at it and have now attached Lily Collins to star and Burr Steers, the director behind the Zac Efron movies 17 Again and Charlie St. Cloud, to helm the adaptation.
More information on this as it comes in.
I hope this adaptation of Seth Grahame-Smith’s novel goes better than that garbage that destroyed his novel Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. About all that movie had in common with the book was Abraham Lincoln, his ax and vampires other than that there was little relation at all. That is the only movie in my life I have ever got up and walked out of the theater in the middle of. Grahame-Smith took great care to make sure his story could actually fit into Lincoln’s documented history and the movie tossed all of it out the window in the first few minutes. I’m hesitant to see another of his novels destroyed in that manner.