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Craig Gillespie will soon be set as director of Pride And Prejudice And Zombies, Lionsgate’s adaptation of the Seth Grahame-Smith novel that enhanced the Jane Austen classic with a smattering of flesh-eating walking corpses. Now, Gillespie has been a frontrunner on the Lionsgate project since Mike White dropped out. But several other candidates were considered, including the author and his partner, David Katzenberg. I’m told that the other aspirants have been informed that Gillespie will be getting the gig and that he’ll begin negotiating soon. Gillespie, who helmed Lars and the Real Girl, most recently wrapped the remake Fright Night for DreamWorks, with Colin Farrell in the bloodsucker role.
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Great choice! Can’t wait to see what he does with the material!
From the director of Mr Woodcock and United States of Tara. Two of the worst things to ever be produced.
Sounds good.
Until 30 seconds ago, I thought the trailer for some kind of Natalie Portman unfunny medieval mess was the biggest piece of crap I’d seen all year so far.
But then this came along.
Adding Zombies makes this Jane Austen classic so completely relevant, so massively relatable, so current, so edgy, so NOW, so totally understandable to this generation.
Without zombies, not a single solitary soul on earth could possibly understand the novel, nor the story.
Bravo filmmakers, one of your brilliant team members was completely inspired to adopt this book and share the once-completely-irrelevant BUT now-totally-relevant story of “Pride and Prejudice.”
jk – you said it very well imho. Austen continues to be one of the most relevant writers in the world – and if her 6 books are not enough for you there are lots of authentic sequels and continued stories out there that are not bad, not to mention her early writings and her letters that are often very sharp. Still there is something that makes me think Jane Austen would have found this whole exercise hilarious.
All that’s missing from this comment is the ‘sarcasm font’ and a few explosions.
I feel like you’re being sarcastic here, but it’s just so subtle I can’t quite tell…
Huge Ryan Gosling fan, but am I the only one who hated LARS AND THE REAL GIRL – who turned it off after about 45 minutes – who just didn’t buy the concept at all????
That film is going to have to be really f-ing funny, or it’s going to be the biggest bomb in the long sad history of bombs.
Having just read Mr. Smith’s Abraham Lincoln Vampire Killer thinking it would be kind of humorous, I can tell you the title tells the whole story. Yes, it’s Lincoln. Yes, he kills vampires. No, it’s not funny. That’s it. Don’t bother.