Matt Smith, who recently completed a four-season stint starring in “Doctor Who,” and stars in Terminator: Genisys, has joined the cast of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, the adaptation of the Seth Grahame-Smith novel, writes THR.
The long-in-the-works, on-and-off again project is finally going before cameras Sept. 24 with a cast that includes Lily James, Sam Riley, Jack Huston, Bella Heathcote and Douglas Booth. Burr Steers is behind the camera.
“The movie is a horror-comedy spin on Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice.” The heroine, Liz Bennett (James), is pressured by her family to marry into a wealthy upper-class home but chafes at the stiff social mores of Victorian England. Instead, she feels that she should help defend the countryside against the onslaught of a horrifying zombie plague.”
Smith will play Mr. Collins, a parson who is on the lookout for a wife and proposes to Bennett.
