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Lionsgate just can’t seem to catch a break it seems, with their big screen adaptation of the Seth Grahame-Smith novel Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. Deadline reports that Craig Gillespie, the project’s third attached director, has exited the project. Gillespie follows previous departures from Mike White and David O. Russell, who wrote the script. […] Lionsgate can’t seem to catch a break as yet another actress, this time Blake Lively, has passed on starring in Craig Gillespie’s adaptation of the Seth Grahme-Smith novel Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. Lively was offered the role over a week ago. She’s now the third-named actress to pass on the project (after Emma […] Craig Gillespie’s adapation of the Seth Grahame-Smith novel Pride and Prejudice and Zombies may have found its lead. Twitch reports that Blake Lively has been offered the lead role in the film. Previously, Emma Stone and Natalie Portman have declined while both Mia Wasikowska and Scarlett Johanson have been rumored for the part. Emma Stone has passed on Lionsgates’ offer to play the lead character in the adaptation of Seth Grahme-Smith’s novel Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. Deadline reports that the initial offer never made it to the negotiating stage. Emma Stone has been offered the role of Elizabeth Bennet in Craig Gillespie’s adaptation of the Seth Grahame-Smith novel Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. Grahame-Smith is writing the script with Marti Noxon. Source: Variety Lionsgate has announced that Craig Gillespie has been tapped to direct the studio’s adaptation of the Seth Grahame-Smith novel Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: “We are so excited to have Craig Gillespie on board this film,” said Alli Shearmur, Lionsgate president of Motion Picture Production. “His sensibility spans from genre-bending horror to elegant […] Lionsgate is reportedly considering Craig Gillespie, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies author Seth Grahame-Smith and David Katzenberg to direct the upcoming big-screen adaptation of the bestselling novel. Grahame-Smith would co-direct with Katzenberg (the two are producing partners and it would mark the feature directorial debut for both). Heat Vision | THR notes that […] Fright Night director Craig Gillespie is the latest director to attach to Lionsgate’s adaptation of the Seth Grahame-Smith novel Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. Deadline reports that no deal is in place, but Gillespie is the current front runner. David O. Russell was the first director attached to the project, but dropped out. Mike White […] Deadline is reporting that Mike White is no longer attached to direct Pride and Prejudice and Zombies for Lionsgate. White reportedly had a preexisting commitment at HBO and they couldn’t get their schedules to work out: “I loved the project and looked forward to working with Lionsgate. Unfortunately, the timing could not be […] Lionsgate has signed Mike White to direct Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, an adaptation of the Seth Grahame-Smith novel of the same name. As its title implies, the project mixes Jane Austen’s 1813 classic “Pride and Prejudice” with Zombies set in an alternate version of 19th-century England. Austen was actually credited as a co-author when […] |
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