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Screen Gems will premiere exclusive first look footage from Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, as well as Patient Zero during its Hall H film panel on Saturday, July 11th, Bloody Disgusting first reported.
Now, the weekend before the Con kicks off, EW has new photos from Burr Steers’ adaptation that stars Elizabeth (Lily James), Lydia (Ellie Bamber), Mary (Millie Brady), Jane (Bella Heathcote), and Kitty (Suki Waterhouse) as the Bennett sisters.
“This mash-up that begins with the tangled relationship between lovers from different social classes in 19th century England, and is complicated by a full on outbreak of zombies.“
The coolest aspect of the film is that it’s playing it straight – there’s no camp like in Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, also by Seth Grahame-Smith.
“The idea was that it was ‘Pride and Prejudice’ set in this alternate world and then for everyone to play it straight,” Steers explains. “The movie’s big wink is that there is no big wink.” That news may come as a shock to fans of the over-the-top Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, the last Grahame-Smith book to get a big-screen adaptation. So brace yourselves, James says. “It’s definitely not camp.”
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It also means those corseted Bennet girls finally get to see some real action. “Rather than knitting and crocheting, they’re polishing muskets,” says James (Cinderella). And Lizzy, she says, is unlike any leading lady she’s ever played: “She’s the most badass zombie slayer there is.”
The Pride and Prejudice and Zombies panel will feature talent from the film including Lily James, Sam Riley, Bella Heathcote, Douglas Booth, Jack Huston, and Matt Smith, along with director Burr Steers, and the book’s author Seth Grahame-Smith.
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies opens in theaters February 5th, 2016.
