Zombies get another boost!

[The Battousai]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8407986.stm

Natalie Portman to slay zombies in Austen adaptation


Natalie Portman is set to slay the undead in a movie adaptation of best-seller Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, it is reported.
Portman will play feisty heroine Elizabeth Bennet, according to trade publication Variety.

The novel, by Seth Grahame-Smith, takes Jane Austen's classic and adds a new subplot in which the story takes place as the dead rise from the grave.

The five Bennett sisters are all trained in deadly martial arts.

Portman is also set to produce the film for Lionsgate.

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, which was first published in April 2009 by Quirk books, got to number three on the New York Times best-seller list.

A prequel has been announced, Dawn of the Dreadfuls, which is due to be published in March 2010.

Quirk books have also released another novel based on an Austen work, entitled Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters.

 

[StrainedEyes]

Hmm.. something tells me this thread does not belong.

 

[The Battousai]

 

[Silvermoth]

I want to post in this thread before it gets moved/closed!

 

[Watson]

http://forums.superherohype.com/showthread.php?t=332356

 

[Majic Walrus]

Still no move? Well I can't wait to see it.

 

[The Battousai]

Me neither - it's fun while it lasts, though

 

[Shemtov]

Whys everybody so obssewsed with zombies these days?

 

[Majic Walrus]

They're awesome.

 

[Ace of Knaves]

Whys everybody so obssewsed with zombies these days?

Because they eat brains. What's not to love?

 

[The Lizard]

This is especially funny since the former Natalie Portman lookalike Keira Knightly played Elizabeth in the movie version of the actual Pride and Prejudice a few years ago.

Good thing Natalie's got the action movie experience, since she has to kick serious zombie and ninja ass in P&P&Z.

 

[E-Man]

Whys everybody so obssewsed with zombies these days?

They're awesome.

Because they eat brains. What's not to love?

Case closed. Now let's all go get some barbecue!

 

[Mike_D202]

Because they eat brains. What's not to love?