Posted on Friday, December 11th, 2009
Well, this is an interesting development. There were rumblings that Pride & Prejudice and Zombies was going to get the cinematic treatment, but I sort of shrugged them off at the time.
Now, Variety is reporting that Natalie Portman has signed on to produce the film and play Elizabeth Bennett.
“Natalie and I are longtime passionate fans [...]
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Posted on Wednesday, July 15th, 2009
Aside from the obvious alliteration of the book’s title, I’m having a hard time figuring out why Quirk Books decided to mashup yet another Jane Austen book with creature monster madness.
Now, don’t get me wrong, that’s not to say that I’m not head over heels excited for Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters, but it [...]
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Posted on Sunday, March 29th, 2009
Obviously, we’ve been following the PPZ developments with a keen eye and ear and relaying that information back to you. We have our review copy sitting amongst a stack of other review copy books to get too. So we’re probably not going to have any sort of official review around here for some time. There’s [...]
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Posted on Tuesday, February 10th, 2009
The buzz surrounding Quirk Books’s Pride and Prejudice and Zombies has been so loud the published moved up the release date to April 4 to capitalize on the swelling internet love affair.
But the buzz has also generated interest and bidding from Hollywood studios eager for a piece of the (as yet unreleased) corset-zombie-action.
Seth Grahame-Smith’s novel [...]
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Posted on Tuesday, January 27th, 2009
Had Jane Austen written Pride and Prejudice with apocalyptic zombie action interspersed with the passive aggressive courtship from Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet I probably would have been able to read the darn book, instead of just watching both versions of the movie (yup, it’s actually not a bad story and I’ve sat through both [...]
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