No, this is not a joke!
In what seems like an idea out of someone’s best nightmare or worst fantasy, Elton 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 the titular alien crash lands and begins to butcher the mannered protagonists, who suddenly have more than marriage and inheritance to worry about.
Shooting will begin in London later this year.
Clark, who directed award-winning short The Amazing Trousers, wrote the script with Andrew Kemble and John Pape.
“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,” said David Furnish, producer.
Elton John will supervise the music, as he does in each Rocket-produced film.
The company is in production on the CG-animated Gnomeo and Juliet for Miramax/Disney; James McAvoy and Emily Blunt voice the title characters. Rocket is also behind the Sundance series Spectacle: Elvis Costello With …
