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Alert Janeite Brittany wrote to tell us that Pride and Predators is the latest bit of Jane Austen backlash that the hipsters are perpetrating against Jane.
Will Clark is set to direct Pride and Predator, which veers from the traditional period costume drama when an alien crash lands and begins to butcher the mannered protagonists, who suddenly have more than marriage and inheritance to worry about.
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“It felt like a fresh and funny way to blow apart the done-to-death Jane Austen genre by literally dropping this alien into the middle of a costume drama, where he stalks and slashes to horrific effect,” Furnish said.
The article says it is to “start shooting this year” but we’ve heard that before, so we’re not holding our breath or anything.
Elton John is executive producer. Oh, Rocket Man. We’re deeply disappointed. Don’t you have something nice and sparkly to spend your money on instead of this?
ETA: Upon further cogitation, we begin to think this might be a hoax. Seriously, Elton John executive producing?
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Ack!
““It felt like a fresh and funny way to blow apart the done-to-death Jane Austen genre by literally dropping this alien into the middle of a costume drama, where he stalks and slashes to horrific effect,” Furnish said.”
And aliens dropping out of the sky is a genre that hasn’t been done to death? Oh, puhlease.
Could the aliens slash up Rozema’s Mansfield Park? Or that insane Northanger Abbey from a couple of decades ago? I’d watch both of those!
I sincerely hope it is a hoax, because things Austen in this kind of genre is getting out of proportion, first zombies and now predators would be too much to my nerves and my liver. Bleah!
I don’t see anything on snopes.com about it, but then again this is a new story, so they may be researching it.
I agree though – I think I want this to be a hoax. Let’s see how it works with zombies first before things get too out of hand.
Zombies, now aliens. What’s next?
Valerie, I’m with you!
I don’t think it’s a snopes-level type of hoax (which is more like e-mail forwards and urban legends), I think somebody might just be trying to get a rise out of the Uptight Janeite Purists and Middle Aged Austen Whores.
Even if not, I think somebody’s using the zombie bandwagon to parade their dopey idea and I sincerely doubt it will ever get made.
Remember how they keep telling us period films are too expensive for the poor destitute Hollywood studios to afford? You think adding aliens and zombies and other F/X will make them any cheaper? Doubtful. They can’t get any cheaper than the schlock ITV foisted upon us.
Why does anyone think Austen needs freshening up? If they don’t like it why don’t they COME UP WITH SOME IDEAS OF THEIR OWN????
(‘n git offa mah dam lawn, whilst they’s at it!)
I am looking forward to Pride and Protoceratops–where Meryton gets invaded by dinosaurs, the Bennet girls make a pet of a friendly Brontosaurus, the Bingley sisters get eaten by Velociraptors, and Mr. Collins has an amusing encounter with a TRex.
Zombies, aliens, Maria L. covered dinosaurs… what’s next—pirates? Werewolves? (Vampires have been done to death now.)
I for one would be interested in seeing a certain Time Lord step into Austen’s world…
If it’s not true they managed to fool a lot of people. My Danish Newspaper reported the story this morning and the British Guardian has the story:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2009/feb/17/pride-and-predator-to-give-jane-austen-extreme-makeover
They all report back to this article in Variety
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118000187.html?categoryid=13&cs=1
This was also mentioned on a Dutch website. I hope they are not going to make this film. It’s such a stupid idea and I don’t think anyone will be interested in seeing it.
Could be “Back to Austen”: Marty McFly arrives in a DeLorean and Elizabeth falls in love with him and Doc tries desperately to fix the disruption in the Time-Space continuum.
This is not so original…
http://www.worth1000.com/emailthis.asp?entry=311166
And this one:
http://www.worth1000.com/emailthis.asp?entry=311121
If the alien would be the real predator, I would surely go! XD