Pride and Craziness

What the hell is going on. I've just heard about two separate remakes of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. Now, I don't know a damn thing about this book or Jane Austen in general. I'm pretty sure it's some sort of thing that women read when they get into the twilight of life. That said, it appears that two different film companies want to change that.

First, Seth Grahame-Smith wrote a book called Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. What the fuck? And Zombies!?!?! Well in this adaptation, the evident main character from the book, Elizabeth Bennet, and her 4 sisters take to arms and ninja train to kill zombies. No fucking shit. Seriously. They're trying to make a movie out of it and Natalie Portman may or may not be in it, depending on who you believe. Natalie fucking Portman. What the fuck.

Next is Pride and Predator. Fuck. Evidently Elton John's Rocket Pictures is behind this one. Will Clark (The Amazing Trousers) will direct the period piece where the well mannered Victorian era folks are thrown from their normal lives when an alien crash lands and starts to kill them. Fuck. Really? This one is actually starting filming in London later in the year. It was written by Clark, Andrew Kemble and John Pape and produced by Elton John, Steve Hamilton Shaw and David Furnish.

"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," says Furnish of the forthcoming film.

Wow. I don't even know what to say. These films are either gonna wicked suck or be amazingly awesome. There is no gray area I can see other than that. So there you have it. Two Jane Austen re-imaginations in the works, from the same fucking book. Who says lightning never strikes twice.