Trailer for DAWN of the DREADFULS - Pride and Prejudice and Zombies Prequel

Here's the trailer for Dawn of The Dreadfuls, the prequel to the New York Times bestseller Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies:  Dawn of The Dreadfuls takes place 4 years before the events of the first book, and explains the genesis of the zombie plague in early-nineteenth-century England, and see how Elizabeth Bennet evolved from naïve young teenager into a savage slayer of the undead

Steve Hockensmith -- a finalist of Edgar, Shamus and Anthony awards -- takes the reins of the Austen/Zombie mash-up for P&P&Z author, Seth Grahame-Smith -- who moved onto Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter.

Natalie Portman is starring and producing the feature adaptation of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, while Tim Burton, Timur Bekmambetov and Jim Lemley are developing Vampire Hunter.

Check out the trailer and let us know if you think this will get the big-screen treatment as well!

Dawn of The Dreadfuls hits shelves March 23rd.

 

 

Here's The BookList Description of the Book:

Ever wondered how the Bennett sisters got to be such great zombie killers? Hockensmith explains all in the story of the return of the zombie plague and Mr. Bennett’s secret history. When a neighbor rises up out of his coffin in the middle of a funeral, Mr. Bennett shrugs off the lifestyle of a Regency England gentleman and returns to his old calling as a warrior dedicated to eradicating the Unentionables. Turning the greenhouse into a dojo, he trains all five Bennett girls, with the help of fellow warrior Master Hawksworth, to take up his quest—just in time, too, as a deadly incursion is under way. Hockensmith does not abandon Austen’s original characters. Mrs. Bennett is the most true to the original, and even silly Kitty and Lydia are the same, only they fight instead of fuss over men. Elizabeth, from whose point of view significant elements of the story are told, is the most fully developed, and while she departs a little from the original, it’s not so far as to make Austen fans cringe (given that they’re OK with zombies, of course). This is a must-read for the growing legion of alternate-Austen fans (including, naturally, everyone who has read Pride and Prejudice and Zombies).

 

 


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