Craig Gillespie, who directed Lars and the Real Girl and the upcoming Fright Night remake, has been tabbed to helm Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, according to Lionsgate. “We are so excited to have Craig on board this film,” Alli Shearmur, Lionsgate president said in a statement. “His sensibility spans from genre bending horror to elegant character driven comedy, which is perfect for this movie. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is precisely the kind of movie I came to Lionsgate to make: sophisticated yet youthful and edgy. Our movie will be all of those things — with zombies — and it will benefit enormously from Craig’s unique perspective.”
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I hope Zombie Jane Austen sabotages this movie.
Why?
I get that it has its fans, but I thought this book was horrible and just a way for the writer to ride on the coattails of Austen’s popularity.
The book is a coffee table gag with dull childish writing. They’ll have to do a page one re-write to create a working film.
Zombies have been done to death.
Well good, now they’ll come back to life and be even more awesome.
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies was a very entertaining book and in the right hands (and with the right cast), could be a lot of fun