Collins Is Elizabeth Bennett In "Zombies"

Lily Collins is talks to star in the long in the works adaptation of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies says THR,

The film's story is taken from Seth Grahame-Smith's book using Jane Austen's classic Pride and Prejudice and puts bloodthirsty flesh-eating zombies into the action. The tome now tells the timeless story of a woman's quest for love and independence amid the outbreak of a deadly virus that turns the undead into vicious killers.

Production execs Megan Ellison and Allison Shearmur will shepard the project going forward.The team is currently looking at directors, and the film will be packaged for the Cannes Film Festival 2013 in a few weeks.

Natalie Portman was to play the role as well as produce the film but left back in 2010. Then Anne Hathaway, Scarlett Johansson Mia Wasikowska Mila Kunis, Emma Stone, Rooney Mara, and Olivia Wilde were all being considered for the role at one point. And then Blake Lively and Dominic Cooper were attached to play the leads before it crumbled

Craig Gillespie was the director on the film before he left in the Fall of 2011--David O. Russell and Mike White were previously attached to helm too but soon left the pic; Russell, Gillespie Grahame-Smith and Marti Noxon have all drafted the script

Burr Steers is directing the project now

Annette Savitch Richard Kelly, Sean McKittrick  Aleen Keshishian and Portman are set to produce.