I got a laugh out of this news item as I was doing my daily perusal of blogs. Slash Film reports that Hollywood studios are currently duking it out to obtain the rights to a novel called Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, a novel which keeps a good deal of the original text of Pride and Prejudice and spices it up with a few twists that add a zombie invasion to the plot. I actually think that this film could be some fun, especially given the popularity of the last Pride and Prejudice movie. The premise of original book is so well-known that it wouldn't be too much of a stretch to reengineer it into an amusing horror flick.The original Times article that broke the story has some interesting tidbits about other literary classics that have gotten a horror remixing, including Wuthering Heights, where the ghost of Catherine does quite a bit of terrorizing. And of course, as Slash reminds us, Jane Eyre already got the zombie rewrite over 60 years ago in the form of I Walked with a Zombie, a slightly creepy Val Lewton film that takes the original concept and adds Jamaica and a little voodoo.
I'm strongly considering buying the book when it comes out in May, if only to see how author Seth Grahame-Smith pulls it off.
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