PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND ZOMBIES Movie Finally Moves Forward

D’ ya remember back when Natalie Portman wanted to make this book-based movie? Man, she would’ve been good starring in it too.
Fast forward to today, Panorama Media and Darko Entertainment handsomecharlie Films and producer Allison Shearmur have all teamed up to develop the feature adaptation based on Seth Grahame-Smith’s worldwide best-seller, PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND ZOMBIES.
Grahame Smith is the brains behind ABRAHAM LINCOLN: VAMPIRE HUNTER which was extremely fun so I can only imagine what they have in plan for this twisted take on Jane Austen’s classic, which by the way has the script written by Oscar nominated filmmaker David O. Russell (The Fighter, Silver Linings Playbook)
They are now looking to hire a director to helm this project. Check out the book‘s official synopsis below..

“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains.”
So begins Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, an expanded edition of the beloved Jane Austen novel featuring all-new scenes of bone-crunching zombie mayhem. As our story opens, a mysterious plague has fallen upon the quiet English village of Meryton—and the dead are returning to life! Feisty heroine Elizabeth Bennet is determined to wipe out the zombie menace, but she’s soon distracted by the arrival of the haughty and arrogant Mr. Darcy. What ensues is a delightful comedy of manners with plenty of civilized sparring between the two young lovers—and even more violent sparring on the blood-soaked battlefield. Can Elizabeth vanquish the spawn of Satan? And overcome the social prejudices of the class-conscious landed gentry? Complete with romance, heartbreak, swordfights, cannibalism, and thousands of rotting corpses, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies transforms a masterpiece of world literature into something you’d actually want to read.