Natalie Portman as Elizabeth Bennett in the one against zombies

By Matt Holmes / June 25, 2011

Further updates on the Jane Austen/Zombie/Predator saga tonight come from Production Weekly (via BD). It seems Natalie Portman is one of the actresses' circling PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND ZOMBIES, the movie adaptation of Seth Grahame-Smith's novel put into development last week before the news of PRIDE AND PREDATOR. Production Weekly say Portman is attached but Shock Till You Drop's close sources say...

"Premature. No offers or handshakes of any kind yet - other people circling."

As I hoped, the studio are looking to cast the project like they would any normal Jane Austen adaptation, which should give the fantastical horror elements so much more of a bite. Portman is the right kind of actress for this, not a young twenty something blonde who would lead a typical Hollywood horror flick, i.e. an Amber Heard.