From Variety (courtesy of The New Yorker‘s “The Book Bench” blog):
Rocket launches ‘Predator’
Clark to direct aliens vs. Jane Austen pic
By MICHAEL FLEMINGElton John’s Rocket Pictures hopes to make the first Jane Austen adaptation to which men will drag their girlfriends.
Will Clark is set to direct “Pride and Predator,” which veers from the traditional period costume drama when an alien crash lands and begins to butcher the mannered protags, who suddenly have more than marriage and inheritance to worry about.
[…]“It felt like a fresh and funny way to blow apart the done-to-death Jane Austen genre by literally dropping this alien into the middle of a costume drama, where he stalks and slashes to horrific effect,” [Rocket Pictures’ David] Furnish said.
marta says
They were joking about this on Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me. I couldn’t decide if they were for real or not.
Next I think they should remake A Tale of Two Cities, but aliens should sweep down and really shake the revolution.
recaptcha: favorite son raked
John says
marta: You kid about that Tale of Two Cities remake, but you just know somebody in Hollywood is honestly considering a project a lot like it right about now. Probably PO’d that Elton John beat him to the punch.
My own recaptcha is “LARDNER food.” This is a hint to pursue this outlandish story idea.