Pride and Prejudice and Zombies | Feb. 5, 2016 | New Trailer on Page 3!

[TalismanRing]

10 hours ago, Spidey Freak said:

 

The concept has potential though. From my understanding however, the writer didn't do much with it in his book. Hopefully the movie does better.

 

It's like poor Jane Austen fan fic with zombies but it made money and for some reason has given Seth Grahame-Smith a career writing shlocky screenplays.  I'm still not sure how that translated into giving him screenwriter and (first time!) directing duties on a The Flash.

[Hermia]

1 hour ago, DAJK said:

30% higher than I expected to be honest.

 

Now it is at 54% Soon fresh 

[Boxofficerules]

[filmlover]

1 minute ago, Boxofficerules said:

I honestly won't be shocked to see this completely bomb. This is the definition of a movie without an actual target audience.

[WrathOfHan]

I want to degrade my prediction of 12M but I degraded on The Boy and instantly regretted it.

[Boxofficerules]

1 minute ago, filmlover said:

I honestly won't be shocked to see this completely bomb. This is the definition of a movie without an actual target audience.

The Zombies part will put the Jane Austin fans off, the Pride And Prejudice And Pg13 will put the zombie fans off.

[filmlover]

34 minutes ago, Boxofficerules said:

The Zombies part will put the Jane Austin fans off, the Pride And Prejudice And Pg13 will put the zombie fans off.

The PG-13 indicates that teenagers are the people they're going after but I'm guessing girls won't be into the combo of zombie flick and Jane Austen's story and boys will obviously be put off by the costume romance part of the whole thing. Thus, that doesn't leave you with much of an audience, and is why this is pretty much doomed.

Edited February 5, 2016 by filmlover

[Avatree]

Maybe the situation is different here than in the US but awareness and interest seem to be very high here, I suspect it will be a hit.

[TalismanRing]

1 hour ago, Total Treecall said:

Maybe the situation is different here than in the US but awareness and interest seem to be very high here, I suspect it will be a hit.

 

No doubt.  You come from the land of Austen-Mania where there needs to be some new adaption of or AU version of an Austen work at least once every couple of years, even though she only wrote 6 complete novels.

[Avatree]

1 minute ago, TalismanRing said:

 

No doubt.  You come from the land of Austen-Mania where there needs to be some new adaption of or AU version of an Austen work at least once every couple of years, even though she only wrote 6 complete novels.

Wait, what? Jane Austen only did 6 novels? Wow  

[TalismanRing]

7 minutes ago, Total Treecall said:

Wait, what? Jane Austen only did 6 novels? Wow  

 

Yep.

 

Pride & Prejudice  (aka Bridget Jones Diary etc)

Persuasion

Emma (aka Clueless)

Sense & Sensibility

Northanger Abbey

Mansfield Park

 

 

 

 

Edited February 5, 2016 by TalismanRing

[BadAtGender]

What do you mean "only" six novels. That's a pretty strong output, especially in that era. Especially for a writer who died at 41.

[Fancyarcher]

2 hours ago, Boxofficerules said:

 

I'm expecting the midnight screening of P & P & Z to be more entertaining then the film itself, so can't say I'm surprised.

[TalismanRing]

8 minutes ago, DamienRoc said:

What do you mean "only" six novels. That's a pretty strong output, especially in that era. Especially for a writer who died at 41.

 

It's solid but in terms of output she wasn't exactly Dickens (even if we only count to his age 41)

[BadAtGender]

5 minutes ago, TalismanRing said:

 

It's solid but in terms of output she wasn't exactly Dickens (even if we only count to his age 41)

 

Got to take the context of the era into play. She predated Dickens and I believe didn't have access to the serialized publishing medium that allowed him to be that prolific. And at the time she was writing and publishing, the novel was still somewhat new and not at all regarded as entombed into literature.

 

Even so, many authors well before (such as Dafoe), contemporary (Shelley), or after (Hawthorne) did not have significantly more works than she did, even though they all lived longer.

 

(This is ignoring, of course, anything about what social expectations on women would do to their creative output.)

[DAJK]

Dear lord I hope this ain't another Victor Frankenstein...

[TalismanRing]

20 minutes ago, DamienRoc said:

 

Got to take the context of the era into play. She predated Dickens and I believe didn't have access to the serialized publishing medium that allowed him to be that prolific. And at the time she was writing and publishing, the novel was still somewhat new and not at all regarded as entombed into literature.

 

Even so, many authors well before (such as Dafoe), contemporary (Shelley), or after (Hawthorne) did not have significantly more works than she did, even though they all lived longer.

 

(This is ignoring, of course, anything about what social expectations on women would do to their creative output.)

 

Fair enough, Dickens started publishing decades later when the novel was more established (though he also wrote travelogues and non fiction) but he was also a workaholic because of his early experience in the poorhouse and being forced into child labor.

 

For a comparative contemporary novelist Sir Walter Scott was significantly more prolific than Austen while also publishing plays, poetry and non fiction.  Still, Austen published more than the Brontes though they had to also to work and they died even younger.  Also, Geoege Elliot didn't start writing novels until she was about 40 and wrote seven.

 

The original point was though there are countless adaptations and derivative works on screen and in print based on Austen's work and the amount is remarkable considering she authored "only 6" books and a majority are about just one of those books.

[Spidey Freak]

Jane Goldman should have written the screenplay. She's usually brilliant at stuff like this.

[Jessie]

6 hours ago, Spidey Freak said:

Jane Goldman should have written the screenplay. She's usually brilliant at stuff like this.

 

I find it funny how she wrote the screenplay to Kingsman which was seen as a sexist movie lol.

[Wrath]

12 hours ago, TalismanRing said:

 

It's solid but in terms of output she wasn't exactly Dickens (even if we only count to his age 41)

 

That's sort of a stiff level of competition, though.

 

"Yeah, that runner is pretty fast, but his time wasn't even close to Usain Bolt."

Edited February 5, 2016 by Wrath