Via Tara on Twitter, Quirk Books has announced its follow-up to SENSE & SENSIBILITY & SEA MONSTERS, and it's not Austen: It's Leo Tolstoy's ANDROID KARENINA, a much longer book than the first two to receive the classic mash-up treatment (and one of my favorites, at least in its historic form).
Co-author Ben H. Winters will be speaking on a panel at the Morgan Library here in New York on the 26th about adapting Jane Austen. From poking around on Quirk's website, I also learned that Natalie Portman has signed to star in and produce the P&P&Z movie adaptation; her co-producer told Variety the book "lends a modern sense of urgency to a well known love story."
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For some reason I find a P&P&Z movie adaptation much more disturbing than a P&P&Z book.
Is it because adaptations of adaptations are less funny than just adaptations? Is it because I assume that most people reading P&P&Z the book are reading it because they liked P&P the book, whereas people going to see P&P&Z the movie might not know that the book did not originally involve zombies?
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