Zombies invade Regency England!
As news flashes go it's an odd one. But here's a picture of what I found on the Internet today courtesy of some diligent colleagues of mine...
Pretty sure Jane Austen wouldn't have envisaged this when she penned the original. It's particularly pertinent for me (I hear that this has been doing the rounds for a bit, so apologies if you've seen it, been there/done that etc) as my girlfriend is a HUGE fan of Pride and Prejudice (and I mean HUGE - there's not a font or text style big enough to express it). She's particularly fond of the BBC dramatisation (which, I understand, is generally held as the best adaptation).
She didn't believe me. I didn't believe me.
'Is this for real?' she cries.
'Yes,' I reply.
'Really?'
'Yes.'
She took it well and is as intrigued as me to discover what the blending of styles will be like with the original text and Seth Grahame-Smith's bone-crunching, flesh-chewing zombie scenes (whose name is synonymous with the books, How to Survive a Horror Movie and The Big Book of Porn and not someone I'd associate with classic English literature). Apparently, there are pictures too, of Elizabeth Bennett throwing down against the zombie hordes ravaging Middle England with her father's shotgun in hand no doubt (I wonder if they'll get a reference to a chainsaw in there?).
It's just bonkers enough that it might actually work. Well, they've got my sale, that's for sure! It feels like car crash literature almost - you can't believe what you're seeing, and you've just got to rubber-neck and make sure you're not imagining it. Hey, it worked with Marvel Zombies - why shouldn't it work with this?
More importantly, where do we go from here. Is all classic literature with copyright expiration fair game?
Great Expectations of Blood (a vampire novel set in Dickensian London where young Pip gets more than he bargained for when he goes to visit Miss Haversham - still, she does burn at the end so that should put an end to her bloodsucking ways, right?)
Oliver Twisted (young orphan boy is actually a flesh-eating mutant that preys on the other street urchins...)
Mummy at Mansfield Park
Emma the Werewolf
A Tale of Two Cities of Hell
The list goes on and on. Any more for any more?
Pretty sure Jane Austen wouldn't have envisaged this when she penned the original. It's particularly pertinent for me (I hear that this has been doing the rounds for a bit, so apologies if you've seen it, been there/done that etc) as my girlfriend is a HUGE fan of Pride and Prejudice (and I mean HUGE - there's not a font or text style big enough to express it). She's particularly fond of the BBC dramatisation (which, I understand, is generally held as the best adaptation).
She didn't believe me. I didn't believe me.
'Is this for real?' she cries.
'Yes,' I reply.
'Really?'
'Yes.'
She took it well and is as intrigued as me to discover what the blending of styles will be like with the original text and Seth Grahame-Smith's bone-crunching, flesh-chewing zombie scenes (whose name is synonymous with the books, How to Survive a Horror Movie and The Big Book of Porn and not someone I'd associate with classic English literature). Apparently, there are pictures too, of Elizabeth Bennett throwing down against the zombie hordes ravaging Middle England with her father's shotgun in hand no doubt (I wonder if they'll get a reference to a chainsaw in there?).
It's just bonkers enough that it might actually work. Well, they've got my sale, that's for sure! It feels like car crash literature almost - you can't believe what you're seeing, and you've just got to rubber-neck and make sure you're not imagining it. Hey, it worked with Marvel Zombies - why shouldn't it work with this?
More importantly, where do we go from here. Is all classic literature with copyright expiration fair game?
Great Expectations of Blood (a vampire novel set in Dickensian London where young Pip gets more than he bargained for when he goes to visit Miss Haversham - still, she does burn at the end so that should put an end to her bloodsucking ways, right?)
Oliver Twisted (young orphan boy is actually a flesh-eating mutant that preys on the other street urchins...)
Mummy at Mansfield Park
Emma the Werewolf
A Tale of Two Cities of Hell
The list goes on and on. Any more for any more?
posted by Nick Kyme at
18:15
2 Comments:
"Lady Chatterley's Undead Lover", where a zombie gamekeeper slips her more than she bargained for in the woods and eats her brains. Be a short book, that one.
Or a post-apocalyptic travelogue "On the Road" called "The Road"... oh, hang on, that's been done, dammit.
Ha, ha - yes, I like that.
"Our Mutual Friend is a Vampire"?
More please!
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