What, like it’s hard to mix Jane Austen with zombies? You directors are all a bunch of pansies.
Just kidding, this sort of sounds impossible to pull off, and PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND ZOMBIES has already gone through two different directors that I know of, and has finally landed a new one willing to take up the challenge.
That man would be Craig Gillespie, the guy doing the FRIGHT NIGHT remake where Colin Farrell is a vampire. He also has MR. WOODCOCK and LARS AND THE REAL GIRL to his name, along with a host of episodes of The United States of Tara.
The studio seem to be onboard with the new choice:
“We are so excited to have Craig Gillespie on board this film,” said Alli Shearmur, Lionsgate president of Motion Picture Production. “His sensibility spans from genre-bending horror to elegant character-driven comedy, which is perfect for this movie.”
Yes, the elegant character driven comedy of MR. WOODCOCK. Errr, maybe he was talking about that other one.
This doesn’t have a cast yet, but it does finally have a director, for now. What are your thoughts?
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