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Douglas McGrath’s Emma is a bit of an odd movie. Starring Gwyneth Paltrow and based on Jane Austen’s perkiest novel, the film was originally released to rival a television mini series starring Kate Beckinsale, who seemed like a more natural fit than the American blonde with a crisp English accent and the swan like neck. [...]
Pride And Prejudice And Zombies, the parody novel of Jane Austen’s 1813 original by Seth Grahame-Smith, has found its lead actress, offering the role of Elizabeth Bennet to the rising star, Emma Stone, THR report. The role was originally to go to Natalie Portman, but Portman eventually decided that she would serve only as a [...]
Deadline are reporting that Craig Gillespie is soon to begin negotiations to direct the film adaptation of the New York Times bestseller, Pride And Prejudice And Zombies, written by Seth Grahame-Smith and Jane Austen. (Obviously not in tandem with each other, with the latter’s original novel being published almost two centuries ago. I just like [...]
Last week HeyUGuys were invited to attend the Alfred Dunhill BAFTA A Life in Pictures event and in an extended interview on stage at BAFTA Headquarters along with critic, writer and broadcaster Francine Stock, was BAFTA Award Winner and Academy Award Nominee Colin Firth. Greeted with rapturous applause, Firth’s appearance had the audience on tenterhooks [...]
Almost a year ago I posted this story about the publication of Seth Grahame-Smith’s bastardisation of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice to include zombies. Time has proven that the reading public were poised to enjoyed the collision of undead horders and the Hertfordshire militia, and the book has been a success, spawning its own imitators. [...]
