You can't get more classic than this. Jane Austen's classic novel "Pride and Prejudice" is being updated as a zombie horror book and will eventually be adapted into a feature film, reports the Herald Sun. A parody of the English novel is due to be published in April under the name Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, with Hollywood studios already bidding to turn the new book into a blockbuster movie. Read on for the story.
"The new book has been penned by Los Angeles-based TV comedy writer Seth Grahame-Smith, who has been able to update Austen's original tale because it is out of copyright.
Austen fans are in for a shock, with heroine Elizabeth Bennet and her four sisters becoming zombie slayers and taught how to fight like Japanese ninjas by Mr Darcy.
"It quickly became obvious that Jane (Austen) had laid down the blueprint for a zombie novel," The Sunday Times quoted Grahame-Smith as saying.
"Why else in the original should a regiment arrive on Lizzie Bennet's doorstep when they should have been off fighting Napoleon?
"It was to protect the family from an invasion of brain-eaters, obviously."
Grahame-Smith said about 85 per cent of his novel is Austen's original text.
"I hated her 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," he said.
"I can only aspire to be as mean-spirited as she could be.""
Oh . . . I'd be looking forward to this more if Zombies hadn't been so overexposed recently. . . I mean, I love the idea . . . it'd just be cool if maybe it was werewolves or something. It just feels like this wouldn't exist if zombies weren't "in" right now.
My wife is furious that this is a book right now. Ranting about how the orginal is a classic and shouldn't be touched...blah, blah, blah.
I can't wait to read it and see it when it comes out in theaters. My wife's fury be damned...I hope it'll be worth it.
I am a big fan of this classic novel, and this update has got me very, very excited. I also agree that zombies are never "in". They never go out of style.
I'm about 50 pages into mine. It's awesome! Obviously well written and it kicks off with zombie mayhem from the very beginning. It doesn't try to be pretentious and is funny based on the fact it's a literary classic with zombies and the fact the lead characters, the sisters, are ninjas. Good Lord, how could this NOT be awesome????
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"The new book has been penned by Los Angeles-based TV comedy writer Seth Grahame-Smith, who has been able to update Austen's original tale because it is out of copyright. 
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