“Pride and Prejudice and Zombies” Scares Itself Up a New Director

Mike White has signed on to direct Lionsgate’s “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies,” based on the offbeat novel by Seth Grahame-Smith. Project mixes Jane Austen’s 1813 classic novel “Pride and Prejudice,” centering on Elizabeth Bennet’s quest for love and independence amid the outbreak of a virus that turns the dead into zombies. Story’s set in an alternate version of 19th Century England that features deadly ancestors roaming the countryside. Lionsgate acquired rights to “Zombies” last year. Project’s also produced by Darko Entertainment.
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