Studios Bidding for “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies”

The book hasn’t even hit stores yet, but already several studios want to make it into a movie. The book in question–”Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.”

Combing the sensibility of Jane Austen and the brain-eating goodness of zombies, author Seth Grahame-Smith takes the orginal text of Jane Austen’s novel, “Pride and Prejudice” and injects a little undead, brain-eating action into the mix.

Grahame-Smith is able to make use of the original text because Austen’s novel has long been out of copyright. The author claims that while he is using the original text in many places, that 85% of the novel is his original work.

“Why else in the original should a regiment arrive on Lizzie Bennet’s doorstep when they should have been off fighting Napoleon? It was to protect the family from an invasion of brain-eaters, obviously,” Grahame-Smith said.

No word yet in who is ahead in the bidding war or any type of casting news. And there’s also no word yet on if this new version will replace the original version in advanced placement English classes across the country.

The novel hits bookstores in April.