Hollywood Studios Bidding For Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

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slashfilm.com - 2/10/2009

Hollywood Studios Bidding For Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

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According to the Sunday Times , Hollywood studios (I quote) are already fighting for the rights to Pride and Prejudice and Zombies , a Jane Austen rewrite that injects a little undead action and is due to hit bookstores in April. Seth Grahame-Smith’s novel apparently makes liberal ...

entertainment.timesonline.co.uk - 2/10/2009

Jane Austen's Bennet girls go zombie slaying

— entertainment.timesonline.co.uk — IT is a truth commercially acknowledged that Jane Austen s high-spirited heroines can be recast as Hollywood... brats or Bollywood sirens, wittily navigating the eternal perils of class, romance and unworthy men. Few challenges, however, are as unusual ... (more) Jane Austen's Bennet girls go zombie slaying

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amazon.com - 2/10/2009

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance - Now with Ultraviolent Zombie ...

— amazon.com — Looks like Sir Elton is throwing his hat into the Pride and Prejudice/modern horror ring. His Rocket... Pictures is producing Pride and Predator -- in which an alien crash lands in the middle of Meryton and begins knocking off the leads. I guess it was ... (more) Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency ...

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shocktillyoudrop.com - 2/17/2009

Rumor Control: Portman on Pride and Prejudice?

— shocktillyoudrop.com — Last week, we gave you latest on the buzz surrounded Seth Grahame-Smith's "Pride and Prejudice with Zombies,"... a drastic reworking of the Jane Austen novel. (Catch up on the full details here .) Tonight, Production Weekly reports Natalie Portman ( V ... (more) Rumor Control: Portman on Pride and Prejudice?

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