Vulture is reporting that Caig Gillespie (
Lars And The Real Girl) is the newest dirctor to be taking the helm of
Pride & Prejudice & Zombies. This news of a new director comes after Mike White (
Year Of The Dog) dropped the project a few weeks back.
Mike White of course was not the only director to drop out of film. Director David O. Russel (
The Fighter) had also abandoned ship and they say that the script he left behind was so good it is the only thing keeping te project going.
Gillespie is currently working on the remake of
Fright Night which will be hitting theaters in August. The adaption of Grahame-Smith's other book
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter is currently filming and hits theaters June 22nd, 2012. It stars Ben Walker with Timur Bekmambetov directing.
If your unfamiliar with
Pride & Prejudice & Zombies here is a synopsis for the book by Seth Grahame-Smith & Jane Austen courtesy of
AMAZON:
“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains.” So begins Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, an expanded edition of the beloved Jane Austen novel featuring all-new scenes of bone-crunching zombie mayhem. As our story opens, a mysterious plague has fallen upon the quiet English village of Meryton and the dead are returning to life! Feisty heroine Elizabeth Bennet is determined to wipe out the zombie menace, but she’s soon distracted by the arrival of the haughty and arrogant Mr. Darcy.
What ensues is a delightful comedy of manners with plenty of civilized sparring between the two young lovers and even more violent sparring on the blood-soaked battlefield as Elizabeth wages war against hordes of flesh-eating undead. Can she vanquish the spawn of Satan? And overcome the social prejudices of the class-conscious landed gentry?”