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Craig Gillespie Officially Exits ‘Pride and Prejudice and Zombies’
Nobody wants to star in nor director Lionsgate’s Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, their troubled live-action adaptation of Seth Grahame-Smith’s historical retelling.
Back on Aug. 30 Twitch had reported that Craig Gillespie had exited the project, and was quickly shot down with eggs in their face by the studio. This article right here is just more proof that the studios, directors and actors are all liars. Twitch was 100% dead on with their breaking story and deserves a big pat on the back. Too bad this Jane Austin retelling is headed back to square one…
“The book centers on Elizabeth Bennet’s quest for love and independence amid the outbreak of a virus that turns the dead into zombies. The story’s set in an alternate version of 19th Century England that features deadly ancestors roaming the countryside.”
Jennifer Holland (“Peacemaker”) and Dave Annable (“Lioness”) will lead the cast of upcoming supernatural Civil War thriller Brine, Deadline reports this afternoon.
B.J. Golnick (“Hunting Hitler”) will be directing Brine.
Brine follows a family of Confederate deserters who escape the Union bombardment of Fort Pulaski with a cache of stolen gold and disappear into the Georgia marshlands.
When they take refuge in a remote plantation house, what first appears to be salvation slowly reveals itself as part of something ancient, predatory and impossible to escape.
Jonah Wharton (Lioness), Sissy Sheridan (Chicken Girls), and Grayson Lay (Outer Banks) also star. The screenplay was written by B.J. Golnick and Jeremy Miller.
“Brine is a story about survival, but it is also a story about inheritance…The violence we pass down, the myths we create to justify it, and the cost of trying to break free,” Golnick previews.
“We intend for the film to feel intimate, historically grounded and deeply unnerving, as if the supernatural elements weren’t invented, but unearthed from the marsh itself.”