'Pride and Prejudice and Zombies' Movie

Del Rey released an excellent graphic novel adaptation of the novel. The novel has sold over 1.5 million copies. Panorama will produce, finance, and rep foreign sales for a film adaptation of bestselling mash-up novel Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, according to Variety. The film will be introduced at Cannes. David O. Russell (Silver Linings Playbook) has written the screenplay but is not officially attached as director. 

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

The contemporary fascination with the bizarre confluence of history, literature, and fantasy, which has seen Jane Austen's heroines take on zombies, continues in Fox's summer tentpole adaptation of Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, which will debut on June 22nd. This film's geek cred comes more from its producer (Tim Burton) and director (Timur Bekmambetov, who helmed the movie version of Wanted) than from its author Seth Grahame-Smith, who also wrote Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.

'Jane Austen Zombie' Scribe Signed for 'Dark Shadows'

Seth Grahame-Smith, the Charles Dickens of the mash-up novel who began the craze with Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, has been signed to write the screenplay for a feature film based on the long-running vampire soap, Dark Shadows. Johnny Depp is attached to star as Barnabas Collins and Tim Burton will direct, a combination that pretty much insures that the Dark Shadows film will have a great chance to be a blockbuster, if it gets made.

Warner Bros. has not yet announced a date for the film, though Variety reports that it was included on a list of up to 20 films that Warners plans to release via IMAX through 2013. Scheduling for Dark Shadows is complicated, because Johnny Depp reportedly wants to take some time off after finishing Pirates of the Caribbean 4 and Burton is involved in numerous projects.

Grahame-Smith is already working on an adaptation of his historical mash-up Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter for Burton (producer) and Timur Bekmanbetov.