(The Frisky) -- If all of the film adaptations of Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" have left your brain numb, this one may really kill you ... in a good way.
Natalie Portman has signed on to produce and star in the movie version of the best-selling book "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies," written by Seth Grahame-Smith and, uh, Jane Austen.
This expanded version of the Austen classic adds a twist on the well-known love story when the outbreak of a deadly virus begins to turn townsfolk into killers. Elizabeth Bennet struggles to balance her blossoming love for Mr. Darcy with her obligation to kick some zombie butt.
And who better to bring the right combination of elegance, wit, and edginess to the role of Elizabeth Bennet than Portman? She certainly has the chops to convince us to embrace this version of Elizabeth -- a woman who at long last will have a proper outlet for her sense of purpose.
Sure, zombies may seem like a peculiar addition to the original text, but there is something about the outbreak of the undead in 19th-century England that somehow makes the story more accessible.
The idea that love can blossom in spite of treacherous, external forces is really a modern concept. Besides, who hasn't had to slay a couple of zombies to land Mr. Right?
7 comments:
You've got to be kidding...
What the hell?
Be that as it may Anonymous, I'm going to reserve judgment until I hear both sides of the story.
Has anyone here read the book?
And furthermore Anonymous, if she was so aroused then how do you explain 突然，我在門、嘻嘻笑和絆倒聽見了鑰匙發出刺耳聲往客廳，我看電視。 我是堅硬的在我的長褲，并且我佩帶了的跑步的底部為掩藏一隻被激起的公雞不是最佳。 我是否起來了并且讓她看我的狀態，或者等待并且讓事消退？ 我是否會得到機會讓事消退？ 她進入了屋子并且裝飾了自己在沙發… ?
Thought so.
Anonymous, you have no right to make that accusation without some concrete evidence. I was nowhere near the crime scene.
Omigod, this is the best spambot we've ever gotten.
Never mind that the text is a huge cluster of Japanese hyperlinks to the same Asian Girls in Lingerie site, the juxtoposition between Jordan's two comments make it look like he was talking and it interrupted him.
I'm still giggling.
Octo, you remember that Doonesbury strip that's "interrupted" by the panel announcing the upcoming contest or whatever, and then you cut back and Zonker goes, "WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT?"
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