Seth Grahame-Smith's 2009 novel Pride and Prejudice and Zombies movie adaptation is finally moving forward after a multitude of director changes.

I have read all of Jane Austen’s works and loved every bit of them.  That is why I was intrigued when I initially learned about Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.  After picking it up to browse in a bookstore once, I was no longer intrigued.  It was not a creative re-telling of Jane Austen’s work with zombies as I thought but rather a bastardization of a classic.  From my brief perusal of the book, it appeared that the author simply took Austen’s novel, almost word for word, and simply inserted zombies like it was some sort of bad fan fiction.  I read no further, and I have no interest whatsoever in the book being made into a movie.  I feel that it is actually an abomination.

The adaptation of Seth Grahame-Smith’s Pride And Prejudice And Zombies has been seeking big-screen life ever since the smash mash-up novel was published in 2009 — but through a series of director changes, it sometimes looked like it had one foot in the grave. No more. The movie version now is a reality with principal photography slated to start in September and Cross Creek Pictures acquiring domestic rights with a commitment for a wide U.S. release. Hot British actors Lily James and Sam Riley and Australia’s Bella Heathcote have been set to lead the film that mixes the 1813 Jane Austen classic Pride And Prejudice with a legion of bloodthirsty undead.

Burr Steers (Igby Goes Down, Charlie St Cloud) is directing from a screenplay by David O. Russell and Steers. Brian Oliver, Allison Shearmur, Sean McKittrick, Natalie Portman, Annette Savitch, Tyler Thompson and Marc Butan will produce on behalf of Sierra/Affinity, which also is handling foreign sales.

Source: Deadline