Pride and Predator: It's Jane Austin vs. aliens - seriously

[Pale Blue Dot]

Elton John's Rocket Pictures hopes to make the first Jane Austen adaptation to which men will drag their girlfriends.

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.

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118000187.html?categoryid=13&cs=1

[DarkTirade]

1. This could be horribly funny... or just plain horrible.

Maybe both. :)

[Forkboy]

2. It'll be on a double bill with Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.

The Classic Regency Romance—Now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem!

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies -- Pride and Prejudice and Zombies features the original text of Jane Austen's beloved novel with all-new scenes of bone-crunching zombie action. 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 as Elizabeth wages war against hordes of flesh-eating undead. Complete with 20 illustrations in the style of C. E. Brock (the original illustrator of Pride and Prejudice), this insanely funny expanded edition will introduce Jane Austen's classic novel to new legions of fans.

[hedgehog]

3. I'd like to see a movie in which Heathcliff shows up to visit the Bennets.

[Fire Walk With Me]

4. "Pride and Predator"

lol! :D

[GOPisEvil]

5. This looks to be a festival of suck.

Mr. Furnish's description makes me want to run in the opposite direction.

[Lavender Brown]

6. Sounds like bad Austen fan fiction

You can get that for free on the internets.