Adaptation finally moving forward
Craig Gillespie is moving from one kind of “undead” to another.
The director of the upcoming Fright Night remake has officially been attached to helm Pride and Prejudice and Zombies for Lionsgate.
Natalie Portman will produce with Annette Savitch alongside Richard Kelly, Sean McKittrick and Ted Hamm.
“We are so excited to have Craig Gillespie on board this film. his sensibility spans from genre bending horror to elegant character driven comedy, which is perfect for this movie. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is precisely the kind of movie I came to Lionsgate to make: sophisticated yet youthful and edgy. Our movie will be all of those things â with zombies- and it will benefit enormously from Craig’s unique perspective,” says Lionsgate prez Alli Shearmur.
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies has courted a number of directors over the last few months. The film is based on the book by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith, a re-working of “Pride and Prejudice.”
Source: Shock Till You Drop
