In what could turn out to be the strangest bit of news this week VARIETY is reporting that Elton Johns ROCKET PICTURES is gearing up to bring the PREDATOR franchise back in a very interesting fashion. Here's the highlights from the report:
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.
"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.
All I can say is that sometimes what sounds like the most absurd idea ends up being the best thing ever so lets just sit back and see what they come up with.
Keeping a real close eye on this one so keep it here for updates.
