Wednesday
The movie "Pride and Predator" has just gone into production. And yes, the plot is exactly what you think it is.
My girlfriend is a big Austen fan. I can't wait to take her to see this. I wonder if I can keep the plot a secret from her...
Posted by Rob Fisher at February 18, 2009 01:11 PM
Please tell me you're making this up.
Please!
Posted by Obnoxio The Clown at February 18, 2009 02:20 PM
Would be nice if the Predator could eat the makers of earthbound film versions. Or at least, lock 'em up with a copy of the book!
Posted by Sam Roony at February 18, 2009 05:18 PM
I'm half curious to see just how many people swarm to see this movie hoping that it won't really have that plot, and how many will be going in the hope that it indeed does.
Posted by Venomous Kate at February 18, 2009 10:30 PM
Promise me the alien gets naturalised and married off at the end, or it won't be Jane Austen.
Wow! Talk about "It is a fact UNIVERSALLY acknowledged..."
Posted by Nuke Gray! at February 18, 2009 11:47 PM
From here
#4 Terminator of Endearment
#3 Indiana Jones' Diary
#2 Alien Vs. Pret-a-Porter
#1 How Stella got her payback
I first saw "Terminator of Endearment" in Mad something like 20 years ago.
Posted by Dishman at February 19, 2009 01:25 AM
Sweet. I enjoy Austen and Predator.
Pride & Prejudice & Zombies is also being developed.
In these dark times it warms my heart that some people are looking out for what my soul craves - bonnets and boomsticks.
Posted by darkbhudda at February 19, 2009 04:37 AM
The last Predator film was clearly set up for further exploration (with the captured weapon being handed over to a lady who, it was implied, was not of this world) - but sadly this further film does not look as if it is going to be made.
As for this project:
If the film is not played for laughs (which it most likely will be) the Predator would find a world where the philsophy of seeking after dangerious opponents (not unarmed noncombatents - after all Predators are not "Aliens" out to lay eggs, or whatever, in people and so on) to prove itself against in a fight to the death, was rather better understood than it is today.
The Predator would also find that formal costumes and good manners did not mean that the people it faced were not killers - and highly intelligent killers.
People who would quite likely find ways of making up for their technological inferiority.
Many of the gentlemen of the early 1800's would be far more likely to survive than most of us would be.
Posted by Paul Marks at February 20, 2009 09:12 PM
Pigmalion - Muppet rendition of the classic
The Red And The Blue - Protagonist Julian Sorel joins the Obama administration as the only viable available means of social advancement
Animal House Farm - Benjamin the donkey plots his revenge after the pigs put him on Double Secret Probation
The PhotoShop of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde's tale gets modernized
Time Lord of the Rings - Inhabitant of a blue call box leads Frodo on a quest involving orcs, Daleks, and questionable jewelery
Posted by Alan K. Henderson at February 21, 2009 05:57 AM
Monty Python did it already with a purported Sam Peckinpah version of "Salad Days." Young Edwardians getting maimed and killed amid fountains of fake blood in slow-motion.
Posted by Jack Olson at February 22, 2009 02:18 PM
