Please, please, let the Regency zombipocalypse be real

[khalinche]

...otherwise I think sabotabby might cry.

"Pride and Prejudice and Zombies -- Pride and Prejudice and Zombies features the original text of Jane Austen's beloved novel with all-new scenes of bone-crunching zombie action. As our story opens, a mysterious plague has fallen upon the quiet English village of Meryton-and the dead are returning to life! Feisty

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[fluffymark]

You know, if they ever turned "Pride and Prejudice" into an anime, that's what would happen. They'd have to add zombies, just because. :)

[sabotabby]

Now I want this to happen.

[khalinche]

If Pride and Prejudice were recreated in anime form, they'd kinda have to choose between introducing zombies and making it so all the protagonists were cats, so as not to exceed the statutory limitation of awesome. I hope you're prepared to make that call - zombie Bennetts or cat anime Darcy, but YOU CAN'T HAVE BOTH.

Dear God, I should go to bed.

[fluffymark]

Oh come on, we can do even better than that! Elizabeth can be a crossdressing schoolgirl orphaned heroine in disguise secretly fighting the zombies, and is also a top swordmaster who can whap Darcy in a duel, any day. Meanwhile Darcy is actually in love with a secret twin sister, which happened because he felt rejected by his parents. He can pilot a giant robot to kill the zombies, and unknowingly often fights alongside Elizabeth against the zombie horde. There are many fights and flashy duels. The zombies eventually are revealed to be controlled by Darcy's father, and it is also revealed that Darcy unknowingly killed Elizabeth's parents, thinking they were zombies, which leads Darcy to question his existence, and he falls into deep despair. Much pshychological fun drama ensues! Elizabeth has to defend the despairing Darcy against an onslaught of zombies, accidentally has her identity revealed to Darcy in the fight, and they realise they love each other, despite the tragic past. Altough they still duel and fight each other playfully

[anthrokeight]

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies was featured on Wait Wait Don't Tell Me, the NPR News Quiz. They interviewed the author. Or additioner, I suppose you could say.

Last orders at the Pemberley tavern

[hairyears]

Oddly enough, I've just finished reading World War Z. Some Jane Austen dialogue would've greatly improved it.

[lordrosemount]

What a strange idea! I wonder how on earth the story works itself out - if I were a regency lad faced by a horde of zombies, for example, I'd imagine it'd be pretty tough to distract me from hiding and/or fighting them off no matter how many hot girls were around.

Methinks he should have started with something a little more plausible like, say, Zombie Northanger Abbey - where the book carries on until normal until Catherine is invited to the Abbey whereupon she begins to imagine that her friend's father, instead of killing her mother, is in fact planning to take over the world by breeding an army of zombies - and, of course, it turns out that she's exactly right. At least that would make a bit more sense!

[khalinche]

OMG, it would _so_ work for Jane Eyre, too. The first Mrs Rochester can't be let out of the attic, for reasons that become tragically obvious when she infects the servants, who come for Jane and Adele in the middle of the night...

Also, I don't think there were any hot girls in Regency days - just beguiling and comely young ladies.

Have you come across the comics of beatonna?

[lordrosemount]

They'd have to be beguiling indeed to make people forget they were under attack from a zombie infestation!

Nope, never seen it before, but thanks for the link! :)