I’m not quite sure who would want to see this movie or read these books — but then again I’m not the audience for the “Twilight” books and I definitely haven’t seen enough “Buffy” reruns — what do you think?
From The New York Times (Dave Itzkoff):
For some viewers, the idea of another Jane Austen-inspired period drama is sufficiently monstrous, but a coming film project seeks to update the formula with actual monsters, Variety reported. The movie “Pride and Predator” … will juxtapose brooding aristocrats with a brutal alien that lands in 1800s-era Britain, attacking residents and leaving them with neither sense nor sensibility. The film, to be produced by Elton John’s Rocket Pictures, is the latest work to mix the hoary costume genre with elements of horror. A book called “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies,” credited to Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith and published by Quirk Books, will combine the Austen novel with “all-new scenes of bone-crunching zombie mayhem.” And a coming novel by Michael Thomas Ford called “Jane Bites Back” depicts the 19th-century author as a frustrated vampire, taking revenge on those who have made money from her work.
I heard this story on NPR yesterday and just laughed. I’m in the same demographic that you are, and am very interested to know who they are going to market this towards.
I was an English major, and I loved Buffy–so I guess that makes me the target audience. But,…wha?