Pride and Prejudice and Zombies [View All]

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Are you a fan of the biting social commentary and masterful irony of Jane Austen?

Ever wish she and Dawn of the Dead creator George A. Romero could have teamed up to bring one of her stories to the big screen?

Well, you'll have to wait a bit for that, but in the meantime, we have the next best thing:

Quirk Books' upcoming Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, billed as "the classic Regency romance—now with ultraviolent zombie mayhem!" It's due April 15.

The book is a posthumous—natch—collaboration between Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith, the gentlemanly author of How to Survive a Horror Movie and The Big Book of Porn.

Here's how Quirk describes the book: " features the original text of Jane Austen's beloved novel with all-new scenes of bone-crunching zombie action. 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. Complete with 20 illustrations in the style of C.E. Brock (the original illustrator of Pride and Prejudice), this insanely funny expanded edition will introduce Jane Austen's classic novel to new legions of fans."

:rofl:

News of a movie, too...

Remember Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, the book that answers the question: Why didn't Jane Austen ever include the undead in her books?

Well, the Australian Herald Sun newspaper now reports that Hollywood is sniffing around, like a walking dead man after brains, to turn the satirical book into a movie.

The book, which will be published by Quirk Books in April, comes from Los Angeles-based TV comedy writer Seth Grahame-Smith, who has been able to update Austen's original tale because it is out of copyright. Grahame-Smith said about 85 per cent of his novel is Austen's original text.

Can you imagine? Colin Firth's Mr. Darcy with a shotgun blasting zombie heads? Keira Knightley's Elizabeth with her face rotted off? Oh, the possibilities.

http://scifiwire.com/2009/02/is-a-pride-and-prejudice-and-zombies-movie-coming-to-get-you-barbara.php#more