Pride and Prejudice (1995)

Jane Austen's celebrated novel Pride And Prejudice is to be reworked as a zombie movie, reports The Sunday Times. Hollywood studios are reportedly bidding for the opportunity to adapt Seth Grahame-Smith's forthcoming parody novel Pride And Prejudice And Zombies into a major motion picture. "It quickly became obvious that Jane [Austen] had laid down the blueprint for a zombie novel," said Grahame-Smith. "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
By Lara Martin

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Let's face it -- there just aren't many new things that can be done with the zombie genre. But since I'm a fan of the shambling deceased, I'm always willing to give credit to anyone who tries something different. And this sounds like the very definition of "something different": a new version of Jane Austen's literary classic Pride And Prejudice, updated with "bone-crunching zombie action". In the upcoming parody novel by Seth Grahame-Smith, heroine Elizabeth Bennet now...
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A reworked version of Jane Austen's Pride And Prejudice is being eyed for a movie adaptation by Hollywood studios, reports The Times. Pride And Prejudice And Zombies combines Jane Austen's literary classic with the horror genre, forcing the story's protagonist Elizabeth Bennet into a battle against the undead. The novel's author, Us TV writer Seth Grahame-Smith, said that Austen's work shared similarities with movie genres such as horror and sci-fi. He said: "It quickly became obvious that [she] had laid down the blueprint for a zombie novel. Why else in the original should a regiment arrive on Lizzie
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