Has the Predator franchise finally gone off the deep end? Judge for yourself

[MrScorpio]

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118000187.html?categoryid=13&cs=1


Rocket launches 'Predator'
Clark to direct aliens vs. Jane Austen pic
By MICHAEL FLEMING

Elton John's Rocket Pictures hopes to make the first Jane Austen adaptation to which men will drag their girlfriends.

Will Clark is set to direct "Pride and Predator," which veers from the traditional period costume drama when an alien crash lands and begins to butcher the mannered protags, who suddenly have more than marriage and inheritance to worry about.

Shooting will begin in London later this year. John exec produces, and his Rocket partners Steve Hamilton Shaw and David Furnish are producing.

Clark, who directed award-winning short "The Amazing Trousers," wrote the script with Andrew Kemble and John Pape.

"It felt like a fresh and funny way to blow apart the done-to-death Jane Austen genre by literally dropping this alien into the middle of a costume drama, where he stalks and slashes to horrific effect," Furnish said.

John will supervise the music, as he does in each Rocket-produced film.

The company is in production on the CG-animated "Gnomeo and Juliet" for Miramax/Disney; James McAvoy and Emily Blunt voice the title characters. Rocket is also behind the Sundance series "Spectacle: Elvis Costello With ..."

[NewJeffCT]

1. I heard about this

what a strange idea. One would almost think it a parody along the lines of Hot Shots, Top Secret and Airplane!, but it doesn't seem that way.

[TommyO]

2. Sadly, I can picture myself going to see this

It's such an awful idea, it just might work!

[InternalDialogue]

3. Hello?!? Didn't you read?

You've got to drag a woman to it for it to work.

:eyes:

[TommyO]

6. Um, er...

does a friend who does drag count?

[InternalDialogue]

9. I think you get double credit for that.

[Orsino]

4. "Shooting will begin in London later this year...."

It might be enough to let the production company off with a stern warning. :D

In all seriousness, though, I might have to attend this movie. There is no bigger fan than I of the Ehle/Firth thingie, but I believe I'd enjoy seeing this classic literally butchered. We can hope that Mr. Wickham and Lady Catherine get what's coming to them.

[ACTION BASTARD]

5. Well, will it be rated R? If not then another epic failure ahoy!

I'm all set for the Predator franchise to shit the Fox bed yet again.

[rcrush]

7. I am so there.

This is brilliant I can remember thinking every time I see a period piece costume drama I keep wishing someone would come in and slaughter the fuck out of these snooty assholes. NOW IT WILL HAPPEN!!!!

[MrScorpio]

8. Merchant and Ivory meets Unholy Space Terror

I'm still trying to connect the two