(I originally wrote this when I heard about the P&P&Z book, and tried shopping it out to Big Hollywood. Alas, no luck: but since I just pre-ordered the book with some birthday gift certificate money, I might as well put this article up here. I was pleased with the way it came out, after all.)
The buzz today is over the greatest development in movie synergy since Hollywood decided to puree 134 films to make Independence Day. I refer, of course, to news that studios are fighting to option out Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, which is coming out April of this year. What makes this exciting is that if successful, this movie could begin a trend:
Other talent agencies are pitching their own slate of monster-lit titles. They include a version of Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, where Catherine, the deceased heroine, returns as a Japanese-style ghost not only to haunt but also to terrorise Heathcliff.
In a reworking of Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, Mr Rochester has something more terrible than an insane spouse in his attic, and a version of George Eliot’s The Mill on the Floss is powered by human sacrifice.
The worry here is that the above might reflect the limits of said talent agencies’ creativity. In light of that, I offer five concepts for those looking to interweave the genres of mainstream literature and horror. I assure you that people would watch these films… and that literature critics would climb over each other’s dead bodies in order to attack them. Continue reading Pride & Prejudice & Zombies… Is Just The Beginning!
BOSTON — The headmaster of one of the city’s most prestigious exam schools is dealing with an unusual rumor sweeping student classrooms.
There are no vampires at Boston Latin School, says headmaster Lynne Moone Teta.
Seriously.
Yeah. Damn right you saw this movie. We all did. And we all know what happens next: there’s going to be a few more people gone, and then there’s going to be a couple more, and there’s going to be some conveniently-upcoming big shindig and the bloodsucking fiends are going to be converging en masse on the conveniently-stake-free walking smorgasbord. Just like clockwork.
Well, I’m here to properly help. Not to try to tell you why there are no vampires, really: if there aren’t any, why bother telling you? No, I’m here to tell you what to do when one of the gore-lusting leeches comes smashing through the walls looking for your precious bodily fluids. Continue reading If your school has to issue a press release denying your vampire problem…
Although the picture is a bit more reassuring in that regard.
The giant lobster of Plantation Key found its new home Friday morning in the Florida Keys. Betsey, who stands three stories tall, is now out in front of the Rain Barrel Artisan Village shopping complex at mile marker 86.7 of U.S. 1.
Betsey is made of metal and fiberglass. She is a detailed, biologically accurate depiction of a female spiny lobster.
Mostly because it drives home the lesson that just because a lobster may have female naughty bits doesn’t mean that you’re going to recognize them on sight. Which is a very strange sort of lesson, but then: it’s Key West. Those guys have turned secession into a The Mouse that Roared-style tourist attraction, so none of this is precisely out of character.
This Quantum 5 world diverged from Homeline's on March 28th, 1911, 7:00 PM Greenwich Mean Time. This date is not actually known to Infinity's researchers; they have at this point only narrowed the divergence point to somewhere in the spring...
This Quantum 5 world diverged from Homeline's on March 28th, 1911, 7:00 PM Greenwich Mean Time. This date is not actually known to Infinity's researchers; they have at this point only narrowed the divergence point to somewhere in the spring...
This Quantum 5 world diverged from Homeline's on March 28th, 1911, 7:00 PM Greenwich Mean Time. This date is not actually known to Infinity's researchers; they have at this point only narrowed the divergence point to somewhere in the spring...
…and, look! The Internet survived my being away from it for most of the day! Good start to the birthday weekend.
I’m going to go geek here for the rest of the day, so I’d appreciate it if nobody political does anything stupid enough for me to be forced to take official notice of it. Much obliged.
…Lileks about Glenn Reynolds? – anyway, the wife’s home for the day and the cherry trees are in bloom, so we’re going to look at them today. I may even take pictures.
, where Catherine, the deceased heroine, returns as a Japanese-style ghost not only to haunt but also to terrorise Heathcliff.
, Mr Rochester has something more terrible than an insane spouse in his attic, and a version of George Eliot’s The Mill on the Floss
is powered by human sacrifice.
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