Seth Grahame Smith

By now you've seen the movie... But have you read the book that began the zombies? In 2009, readers gobbled up the New York Times and international best seller Pride and Prejudice and Zombies faster than zombies eat brains. Now, just in time for the February 5, 2016, release of the major motion picture featuring Lily James as Elizabeth Bennet, Quirk Books presents the official movie tie-in edition of the contemporary classic Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. From the iHeart Radio Studio I'm Unplubbed and Totally Uncut with Seth Grahame Smith. In 2009, readers gobbled up the New York Times and international best seller Pride and Prejudice and Zombies faster than zombies eat brains. Now, just in time for the February 5, 2016, release of the major motion picture featuring Lily James as Elizabeth Bennet, Quirk Books presents the official movie tie-in edition of the contemporary classic Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (Quirk Books; $14.95). “It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains,” begins Grahame-Smith’s reimagination of one of literature’s most idyllic tales. As the story opens in the quiet English village of Meryton, a mysterious plague is bringing the dead back to life. Feisty heroine Elizabeth Bennet is determined to wipe out the zombie menace, but she’s soon distracted by the arrival of the haughty and arrogant Mr. Darcy. This delightful comedy—with plenty of civilized sparring between the two young lovers—becomes all the more absurd and entertaining as Elizabeth wages war against hordes of the undead. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies features eighty-five percent of Austen’s original text mixed with flesh-eating-zombie action and eight full-color pages of stills from the film. Readers will shriek for more gore rather than yawn at the stuffy, slow-paced decorum of it all, and the book is sure to charm Jane Austen buffs as well as legions of blood-hungry new fans. ABOUT THE MOVIE A zombie outbreak has fallen upon the land in this reimagining of Jane Austen’s classic tale of the tangled relationships between lovers from different social classes in nineteenth-century England. Feisty heroine Elizabeth Bennet (Lily James) is a master of martial arts and weaponryand the handsome Mr. Darcy (Sam Riley) is a fierce zombie killer, yet the epitome of upper class prejudice. As the zombie outbreak intensifies, they must swallow their pride and join forces on the blood-soaked battlefield in order to conquer the undead once and for all. Written for the screen & and directed by Burr Steers Starring Lily James, Sam Riley, Jack Huston, Bella Heathcote, Douglas Booth Matt Smith, Charles Dance and Lena Headey This film has been rated PG-13 by the MPAA ABOUT SETH GRAHAME-SMITH Seth Grahame‐Smith is a three-time New York Times bestselling author and a screenwriter, producer and director of film & television. In 2009, Seth’s novel “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies,” debuted at #3 on the New York Times bestseller list, single-handedly kicking off the “mash-up” craze. It’s since sold over two million copies and been translated into more than twenty languages and been adapted into a film. In 2010, Seth co-created & produced MTV’s first live-action comedy, The Hard Times of R.J. Berger, which ran for two seasons. That same year his second novel, Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter, debuted at #4 on the Times list, also going on to sell more than two million copies. Tim Burton purchased the film rights to Lincoln and hired Seth to adapt it for the big screen. Seth’s screenplay was selected to the Black List in 2011. Warner Brothers bought the film rights to Seth’s third straight New York Times bestseller Unholy Night. He’s producing the film with David Heyman (the Harry Potterseries). Seth wrote the screenplay for Tim Burton’s Dark Shadows, and is writing and producing a sequel to Burton’s 1988 classic Beetlejuice. He also recently wrote the screenplay for The LEGO Batman Movie, a follow-up to the worldwide hit The LEGO Movie As a producer, Seth is overseeing film adaptations of Stephen King’s IT, a feature-length version of the viral sensation Kung Fury, the hit video game Five Nights at Freddy’s and the beloved young adult novel The Scorpio Races. Seth is also producing Lego: Ninjago and preparing a new film adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s Something Wicked This Way Comes for Disney