Elton John to Reinvent Jane Austen

Elton John’s Rocket Pictures is hoping to reinvent the Jane Austen  classic Pride and Prejudice with an extraterrestrial twist. The period drama will deviate from its course  when an alien crash-landing disrupts the life of Elizabeth Bennet and Mr.  Darcy in Pride and Predator, reports Daily Variety.       

"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," David  Furnish, John's partner in life and business, told Variety.                

The movie will follow Rocket's Shakespeare adaptation Gnomeo and  Juliet, an animated film that features James McEvoy and Emily Blunt voicing the star-crossed  lovers in a world of warring indoor and outdoor gnomes and will be  released in 2010. Will Clark is set to direct Pride and  Predator, and Rocket partners Steve  Hamilton Shaw and Furnish are producing. John will supervise the music, as he does in each Rocket-produced film. (Rhiza Dizon, Advocate.com)