According to Production Weekly, the spec for Sherri Browning Erwin’s horror take on JANE EYRE, brilliantly titled JANE SLAYRE, is being shopped around as we speak, and if nobody picks this up for the title alone… then I don’t know what the hell is wrong with this world.
But there’s more to Jane than just slaying vampires and throwing down wooden stakes in the hearts of the undead in the novel, right? Check out the full synopsis: Jane Slayre, our plucky demon-slaying heroine, a courageous orphan who spurns the detestable vampyre kin who raised her, sets out on the advice of her ghostly uncle to hone her skills as the fearless slayer she’s meant to be. When she takes a job as a governess at a country estate, she falls head-over-heels for her new master, Mr. Rochester, only to discover he’s hiding a violent werewolf in the attic– in the form of his first wife. Can a menagerie of bloodthirsty, flesh-eating, creatures-of-the-night keep a swashbuckling nineteenth-century lady from the gentleman she intends to marry? Vampyres, zombies, and werewolves transform Charlotte Bronte’s unforgettable masterpiece into an eerie paranormal adventure that will delight and terrify.
You can bet your ass the chances of me reading Erwin’s JANE SLAYRE is way higher than the chances of me taking on the original anytime soon, as I can proudly say that I’ve never ready Bronte’s JANE EYRE, nor do I plan to… but that doesn’t mean I don’t appreciate the creativity that’s going on here, or make me any less excited about the prospects of this project.
JANE SLAYRE follows on the heels of other recent historical literature pieces with horror spins, including PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND ZOMBIES, SENSE AND SENSIBILITY AND SEA MONSTERS, and ABRAHAM LINCOLN: VAMPIRE HUNTER.
Stick around as we wait to find out whether JANE SLAYRE gets picked up, and what kind of kick-ass treatment it’s gonna get when it (hopefully) makes it to the big screen.
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