BLOODY-DISGUSTING.COM Your best source for the latest horror news, reviews, interviews, and more... Come on Now! The Predator Crash Lands in 'Pride' Drama http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/news/15331 Print This Page Is this the new future? A place where we take original literature and piss all over it? I guess one day we'll be seeing some movies where zombies invade Edgar Allan Poe's classic "The Raven" changing the face of movies forevermore. While last week we read about Seth Grahame-Smith's version of "Pride & Prejudice" entitled Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, now Elton John's Rocket Pictures will take these Jane Austen adaptations to a ridiculous new level - space. Read on for details on Pride and Predator. Elton John's Rocket Pictures hopes to make the first Jane Austen adaptation to which men will drag their girlfriends. Variety reports that Will Clark is set to direct "Pride and Predator," which veers from the traditional period costume drama when an alien crash lands and begins to butcher the mannered protags, who suddenly have more than marriage and inheritance to worry about. Shooting will begin in London later this year. John exec produces, and his Rocket partners Steve Hamilton Shaw and David Furnish are producing. Clark, who directed award-winning short "The Amazing Trousers," wrote the script with Andrew Kemble and John Pape. "It felt like a fresh and funny way to blow apart the done-to-death Jane Austen genre by literally dropping this alien into the middle of a costume drama, where he stalks and slashes to horrific effect," Furnish said. John will supervise the music, as he does in each Rocket-produced film. The company is in production on the CG-animated "Gnomeo and Juliet" for Miramax/Disney; James McAvoy and Emily Blunt voice the title characters. Rocket is also behind the Sundance series "Spectacle: Elvis Costello With ..." Source: