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February 8, 2009 - Pride and Prejudice and Zombies / project announced
Scooped on Tuesday, February 17, 2009
The Herald Sun newspaper reports that Hollywood studios are sniffing around for the movie rights to Seth Grahame-Smith's forthcoming horror/parody novel Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. The tome, to be published in April, uses about 85% of Jane Austin's original prose but has been altered to now include a zombie outbreak in Longbourn, the countryside village that's home to Austin's heroine Elizabeth Bennet. In P&P&Z, Grahame-Smith has Elizabeth and her four sisters tutored how to dispose of the walking dead by Mr. Darcy.
"I hated [Jane Austin] when I was forced to read Austen in school, but when I started re-reading I realised she was a brutal, but very funny, satirist," Grahame-Smith told the paper. "I can only aspire to be as mean-spirited as she could be."
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