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While Pride, Prejudice And Zombies first surfaced as a movie project before the swarm of undead movies and TV shows cropped up, the picture stalled over casting and director issues. Looks like you can’t keep a good zombie tale from rising again.
Panorama Media announced today they are joining Darko Entertainment, Handsomecharlie Films and producer Allison Shearmur in the production of Seth Grahame-Smith¹s worldwide best seller PRIDE, PREJUDICE AND ZOMBIES. The company will come on to produce, finance and will handle foreign sales on the film. Based on the book, the script is written by David O’Russell.
The film will be produced by Darko Entertainment’s Sean McKittrick, Natalie Portman, Annette Savitch and Allison Shearmur of Allison Shearmur Productions. It will be executive produced by Darko’s Edward H. Hamm Jr., Aleen Keshishian and Panorama’s Marc Butan.
The team is currently out to directors, and the film will be packaged for Cannes where Panorama’s international sales unit, headed by Kimberly Fox, plans to introduce the title. CAA, which brokered the deal on behalf of the filmmakers, represents the film’s domestic distribution rights.
Published by Quirk Books, PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND ZOMBIES has sold over 1.5 million copies in the US, and has been translated into over two dozen languages.
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Because Hansel and Gretel Witch Hunters was such a success.
It made $164 million on a budget of $50…so yeah, it was a success.
Actually, it underperformed, but nice try.
It actually overperformed by making three times the budget even with dismal reviews and rescheduling. Warm Bodies and The Walking Dead successes likely have more do with Pride and Zombies being revived.
Oh, well if you say so. Why let numbers and facts get in the way of blanket generalizations.
I wonder if the success of Warm Bodies has anything to do with this?
David O is doing his Abscam movie at Annapurna and now this shows up at Panorama.
Hmm….
Because Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter did soooo well…..
What Don said.
Why is Seth Grahame-Smith credited with screenplay? What’s the story there?
Because SGS did write A draft, just not the shooting script. Also, while we’re on the topic, SGS took some hits in 2012 (Abe Lincoln Vampire Hunter, Dark Shadows), but the man can write! And he’s as sharp as hell. He’ll be back on top in all good time.
He’s a terrible writer. The review of this book were also atrocious.
As a fan of ‘Pride & Prejudice’ and of zombies, I looked forward to reading this. Of course I enjoyed it: SGS cut and pasted the text of P&P and inserted some sentences here and there refering to zombies. Everything that goes into writing: creating vivid characters, plotting, dialogue, etc. was done by Jane Austen.
Since the book was 95% Austen, I enjoyed it. Calling it “writing” is a stretch though.
Somebody needs to make the EDGE of the UNKNOWN comic book into a film. Best mash-up ever.
Shhhhhhhh. No one cares about facts.
Why didn’t Megan produce this via Annapurna?
i’m just glad that the anti-Irish sentiment in Hollywood is now gone and David can go by his original last name – O’Russell. Faith & Begorra…
Ugh, send Abe Lincoln in with a hatchet to kill this project.
What an awful, uncreative, contrived story line. Somebody needs to open a studio in New Mexico, find private financing and make films of their own. I can’t take this shit anymore.
Did I miss something or is Natalie Portman and two others from Darko producing – is she attached to star and if not did the budget just get stuck with three dead woods.
Why would they make this?
People that love Jane Austen do not want to see zombies eat Mr. D’Arcy.
People who love zombie movies don’t want to see the Pride and the Prejudice.
Like Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter, or Cowboys & Aliens, it will end up appealing to neither group, and thus– will appeal to no one.
But this is just a talkback. A year and a half from now, we’ll be reading how this flop took down the career of this person and that person, who based on this greenlight, clearly have no taste themselves, or any insight of what an audience wants to see.
I should pitch VIKINGS OF THE KNITTING CLUB, or CHERRY ORCHARD: ALIEN INVASION or AMISH CHAINSHAW MASSACRE and retire when some fool at a studio makes them.
Wait, when’s Amish Chainsaw Massacre coming out?
Funny and true. You live up to your moniker, Reality Man.
1. I love Jane Austen
2. I love Zombies
3. Since SGS simply cut and pasted zombies into the text of P&P, he ended up tampering with Austen’s work lot less than other writers have (think “Bridget Jones Diary” (not bad) and PD James “Death Comes to Pemberly” (totally lame))
4. Item #3 is why the book was so popular.
5. The book having been so popular, the movie will be too. Hopefully whoever is directing will realize that the presence of the zombies will provide the camp – it needn’t be accentuated by dialogue and acting. If they film this as if it were a BBC period piece production of P&P, a matter of fact Mr. D’Arcy dispatching unmentionables should be hilarious to see! I’m in line already, and I’m not much of a movie-goer.
John August should adapt.
This is going to be amazing, actually.
I loved the PPZ books! Have been waiting years for the movie, very glad to hear it has been resurrected. I hope it stays true to the book.