Natalie Portman gives an update on Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

Natalie Portman plans to get her frilly dress covered with brain chunks in an adaptation of Seth Grahame-Smith’s hit parody book PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND ZOMBIES.

Portman recently gave an update to MTV, saying that director David O. Russell (THREE KINGS, I ♥ HUCKABEES) has been hard at work on the story (which might be part of why he’s not making UNCHARTED).

“We just got a new draft from David O. Russell, who is adapting it and is going to direct it,” she said. “We’ll probably be shooting next year, hopefully.”

How does Portman (who calls the material “a perfect collision of genres“) know so much about the film’s status? Because she’s producing as well as plaing heroine Elizabeth Bennet, who finds her attention divided between the pompous Mr. Darcy and her family’s war against hordes of flesh-craving undead.