Elton John sends a Predator after Jane Austen

[PatrickG]

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118000187.html?categoryid=13&cs=1

I love stories like these. The movie itself, probably not so much. But I love the idea of Elton John producing "Pride and Predator". The Onion would never dare suggest something this loopy.

[BnL]

Damn, I was hoping we'd get a movie version of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies first!

[Spiffy]

Damn, I was hoping we'd get a movie version of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies first!
Ha.

There really IS such a book?

http://www.amazon.com/Pride-Prejudice-Zombies-Classic-Ultraviolent/dp/1594743347

Who knew?

EDIT - I guess I am out of touch. It's #14 in Sales on Amazon!

[BnL]

Ha.

There really IS such a book?

http://www.amazon.com/Pride-Prejudice-Zombies-Classic-Ultraviolent/dp/1594743347

Who knew?

EDIT - I guess I am out of touch. It's #14 in Sales on Amazon!

I wouldn't be surprised if it eventually becomes a sub-genre all it's own.

[Spiffy]

I wouldn't be surprised if it eventually becomes a sub-genre all it's own.

Psychic Senses and Sensibility?
(Reanimated Pieces of) Emma?
Mansfield Morgue?
Ghostly Persuasion?

[Pink Bat Maxine]

Psychic Senses and Sensibility?
(Reanimated Pieces of) Emma?
Mansfield Morgue?
Ghostly Persuasion?


Why not go Wilde with the concept?

The Importance Of Bring Eaten
An Ideal Husband A L'Orange
The Picture Of Dorian Gray (Being Eaten By His Chambermaid)

[Spiffy]

I was going for anything monsterish/dead/spooky/supernatural and not just Zombies. But... good job Maxine.

Dickens could be a change of pace, even though he's not really much like Austen.

A Tale of Two Zombies
Barnaby Fudge
Bleak House Full of Corpses
David Copperfield in A White Wine Sauce
Great Expectorations
Oliver, with a Twist of Lime

[Pink Bat Maxine]

Shakespeare....

Romeo Julliene
Julius Cesar And A Salad
Much Ado About Brains

[Typo Lad]

And here I thought this had been done to death.

[Spiffy]

And here I thought this had been done to death.

Spoilsport.

[Typo Lad]

No really, I'm impressed.

[Spiffy]

Going American, Mark Twain...

A Connecticut Yankee Consumes King Arthur's Court
Huckleberry Finn Pie
The Adventures of Tom Sawed Up
The Prince Eats the Pauper
The Tragedy of Pudd'Nhead Wilson [no title change necessary]

[Grazzt]

The Prince Eats the Pauper

I think I saw that gay porn.

[Spiffy]

I think I saw that gay porn.
Ick. I don't wanna know! :biggrin:

[Spiffy]

I'm bored, so here are the Zombie books by Ernest Hemingway.

A Farewell to Arms [no title change necessary]
The Old Man and the Seafood
The Sun Also Rises, reverted to its legitimate alternate title: Fiesta

[sk716]

Shakespeare....

Romeo Julliene
Julius Cesar And A Salad
Much Ado About Brains

How about just "Julius Caesar Salad"?

Oh and:
"A Midsummer Nights Munch."
"Twelfth Bite"
"The Taming of the Chew"
"As you Nibble it"




Okay, I'm done.

[CutterMike]

The Grated Gatsby?
Hamlet on Rye?
The Old Man and the Seasonings?
The Man of Peeling...?
The Sun Also Razors...?
Charlotte's Tangled Web...?

...and if we run out of books, we can base them on other movies...

How about one where an alien hunter cuts a swath through the fashion industry...? Predator a Porté...

Zombies in the old west...? Undeadwood...

Bringing Up Baby (*urp* ... pardon!)

...Or classic TV shows...

Alien the Family...?
I Love Lucy -- TO DEATH!...?
Mary Tyler Mortality...?

[BnL]

And this is why I love this place. :biggrin:

[Spiffy]

The Old Man and the Seasonings?
Ha. Kills me I didn't think of that one...

I'm still especially proud of "Great Expectorations" though.

[Spiffy]

All this joking about other cleverly named theoretical books carrying on what "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies" started and...

The name of the REAL follow-up seems kind of lame.

The War of the Worlds Plus Blood, Guts and Zombies (http://www.amazon.com/Worlds-Plus-Blood-Guts-Zombies/dp/1897217919)

Although its a completely different publisher and a completely different ghost writer from Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (http://www.amazon.com/Pride-Prejudice-Zombies-Classic-Ultraviolent/dp/1594743347/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1241936550&sr=1-1). So maybe "follow-up" isn't quite the right phrase. Copycat?

Not like Pride and Prejudice and Zombies" was all that cleverly named in the first place. I mean the two to make it to print seem to think simply dumping the word "Zombies" on the end is all you need to do. Where's the humor in that?

[BnL]

I find the title Pride and Prejudice and Zombies to be humorous, actually.

This new book seems a lot less worthwhile. I mean, War of the Worlds is already a science fiction novel, so it's not much of a clash of genres, which is what makes P&P&Z so appealing.