It is a truth commercially acknowledged that Jane
Austen's high-spirited heroines can be recast as
Hollywood brats or Bollywood sirens, wittily
navigating the eternal perils of class, romance and unworthy men.
Few challenges, however, are as unusual as the
latest foe facing Elizabeth Bennet of Pride and
Prejudice a plague of the undeadd sent to
reduce the picturesque villages of Longbourn and Meryton to smouldering ruins.
Hollywood studios are bidding to turn a radical
reworking of Austen's most popular book, now
called Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, a parody
to be published in April, into a blockbuster movie.
Desperate for new ideas, studio chiefs hope
"P&P&Z" will mark the bloody birth of a feral
offspring of classic British literature: "monster-lit".
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