Matt Smith, who recently came off a four-season stint starring in Doctor Who, has joined the cast of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, the adaptation of the Seth Grahame-Smith novel.
The long-in-the-works, on-and-off again project is finally going before cameras Sept. 24 with a cast that includes Lily James, Sam Riley, Jack Huston, Bella Heathcote and Douglas Booth. Burr Steers is behind the camera.
The movie is a horror-comedy spin on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. The heroine, Liz Bennett (James), is pressured by her family to marry into a wealthy upper-class home and chafes at the stiff societal ways of 1800s England. Instead, she feels that she should help defend the countryside against the onslaught of a horrifying zombie plague. Smith will play Mr. Collins, a parson who is on the lookout for a wife and proposes to Bennett.
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It's a pretty funny book, still prefer the original though. This could be a rather entertaining movie.
ReplyDeleteWait...this is STILL in developement?
ReplyDeleteThe last time I heard something about the project was around the time Abraham Lincolm: Vampire Hunter was released.
I thought the project got scrapped, glad to see this still being a thing :D