Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-Smith

(As we learn, there are two schools of fighting – Chinese trained and Japanese trained.

Their father Charles has always been most concerned about the girls being able to protect themselves in these zombie-ridden times and thus, sent all away to a Shaolin temple for zombie combat training. Now given the lay of the land, we meet the Bennet sisters eldest sister Jane, fiery independent Elizabeth, followed by Lydia, Mary and Kitty. Accompanying this prologue are gorgeous opening titles depicted in an almost bedtime storybook format which sets the unmistakable tone of the film. Darcy is a one-man wrecking crew when it comes to zombie destruction. Our story begins with an amusing prologue as we meet Fitzwilliam Darcy a gentleman, a nobleman, a man of great wealth, a man who seeks out zombies who are plaguing the nation and insinuating themselves into polite society.before politely killing innocents, eating their brains and turning them into zombies as well. (There will be no comparisons here between the two as no one will dethrone Firth.) Darcy’s to have graced the big or small screen, neither he nor anyone else will ever replace on the screen or in our hearts, the seminal Mr. While Sam Riley is here one of the most seductive Mr. It’s a bloody good time for all!īut before we go any further, for all you die hard “Pride and Prejudice” fans out there, and even all you literary “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies” fans, take heed.

Then enter writer/director Burr Steers wielding his mighty pen and lens, breathing visual imagery and life into the words on the page, creating first a zombie world, into which he then places Jane Austen’s classic Regency Era, for an unforgettably entertaining and cinematic PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND ZOMBIES, complete with an hilarious scene stealing performance by Matt Smith as Parson Collins. Taking all the period beauty, elegance, character development and story structure of Jane Austen’s beloved “Pride and Prejudice”, not to mention her exquisite verbiage and linguistic styling (and in many cases her actual text), and mashing that with the infiltration of a zombie plague, the result was pure deliciousness. When Seth Grahame-Smith’s “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies” took the literary world and bestseller list by storm in 2009, it was inevitable that a film adaptation couldn’t be too far behind.

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-Smith