BS: 'Pride and Prejudice' with Zombies!

Subject: BS: 'Pride and Prejudice' with Zombies!
From: Wesley S
Date: 17 Apr 09 - 11:36 AM

Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the bookstore:

Blue clicky to MSNBC story

They're rewritten "Pride and Prejudice" to include Zombies.

Since I've never ead the original book - will this change the plot drastically??

Subject: RE: BS: 'Pride and Prejudice' with Zombies!
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 17 Apr 09 - 01:10 PM

I just hope they hire actual Zombie actors to portray these roles. I think Steven Seagal might be available.

Subject: RE: BS: 'Pride and Prejudice' with Zombies!
From: SINSULL
Date: 17 Apr 09 - 01:26 PM

Schwarzenegger would make a mean Darcy. LOL

Subject: RE: BS: 'Pride and Prejudice' with Zombies!
From: Wesley S
Date: 17 Apr 09 - 01:33 PM

Pride and Prejudice - The Zombie MUSICAL

My vote goes to Celine Dion for the lead....

Subject: RE: BS: 'Pride and Prejudice' with Zombies!
From: Bill D
Date: 17 Apr 09 - 01:55 PM

Oh my...if this catches on, what will they do with "Little Women" or "Huckleberry Finn"?

Subject: RE: BS: 'Pride and Prejudice' with Zombies!
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 17 Apr 09 - 02:25 PM

My 20-year old daughter was so excited when this was advertised a few months ago pending release, and I ordered it for her Feb. birthday. It arrived last week, and she was thrilled- but I haven't heard how she felt about it.

Jane Austen, esp. "Pride and Prejudice" are "in" at the moment to a degree that must astonish us old jaded English majors and lit lovers- she's cool, she's hip, the college-and-beyond hipsters are crazy about her! This is just an inevitable next step. Kind of like electric guitars at a contra dance, I guess.

Subject: RE: BS: 'Pride and Prejudice' with Zombies!
From: katlaughing
Date: 17 Apr 09 - 02:47 PM

Well, it could certainly enhance the pacing ...it's all our PBS plays now when fund-raising or re-running...every, plodding Sunday night...after night...after night...it's already seems like The Night of the Living Dead!

Subject: RE: BS: 'Pride and Prejudice' with Zombies!
From: Rapparee
Date: 17 Apr 09 - 05:25 PM

I understand that it's the original novel, word for bloody word, but with zombies added. Brain-sucking zombies, as if the original wasn't brain-sucking enough.

Subject: RE: BS: 'Pride and Prejudice' with Zombies!
From: Desert Dancer
Date: 17 Apr 09 - 05:57 PM

'Not a big leap'

"In the original 'Pride and Prejudice,' there are so many things suited to make it into a horror," Grahame-Smith insists. His book is actually 80 percent original Austen text -- he's simply woven a complementary monster story line into the existing romance. For example, in Austen's work, Grahame-Smith says: "There's a regiment of soldiers camped out in Meryton for apparently no reason. It's not a big leap to say that the regiment is there to burn coffins and kill zombies."

Subject: RE: BS: 'Pride and Prejudice' with Zombies!
From: Emma B
Date: 17 Apr 09 - 06:05 PM

Hey Jane Austen Private Eye works too :)

Subject: RE: BS: 'Pride and Prejudice' with Zombies!
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 17 Apr 09 - 06:07 PM

I heard an NPR article about this a few weeks ago. Zombies and vampires and their ilk are acquired tastes. I enjoyed Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus, though, and there are aspects of that text that, passed over Jane Austen, might lead to a similar outcome.

SRS