Blake Lively Latest Actress To Turn Down PRIDE & PREJUDICE & ZOMBIES
Why is every Hollywood a-lister and up-and-coming actress turning down the zom-rom horror?

Casting update, news broke a couple weeks back that Blake Lively was offered lead in PRIDE PREJUDICE AND ZOMBIES. She has officially passed.Rooney Mara & Emma Stone both passed on the movie this year, Anne Hathaway & Mia Wasikowska had too much going on and Scarlett Johansson was only ever interested in starring if the formerly attached David O.Russell (The Fighter, Three Kings) was to direct. Originally Natalie Portman was set to lead but having won an Oscar for Black Swan, becoming a mother for the first time, she decided to drop out to instead only produce. So who's left for Lionsgate and director Craig Gillespie (Fright Night remake, Lars & The Real Girl) to turn to now as their new Elizabeth Bennett? Is Imogen Poots a big enough name for them, having appeared in Gillespie's recent horror flop? Probably not, though she did appear in a BBC Jane Austen drama that could boost her chances.


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