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“It’s like X meets Y” as an elevator pitch for movies has been around for a while. There was an extended period where “Die Hard on a Blank” was a particularly popular example.Now, it seems like these simple concepts have meandered onto the movie titles. I know there was a “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies” movie in the works at one point, with Natalie Portman involved in the production and attached to star, but it seems to have fallen apart. I don’t have a strong opinion about the trend, but I’m worried when movies are clearly greenlit based on the demographics to which it’s believed they will appeal, and I suspect that the reason that such movies get studios’ stamps of approval is because they’re perceived to appeal to fans of both genres that are in the title. Why spend $50 million bucks on movie that’ll appeal to all the zombie fans when you can spend $50 million bucks on a movie that’ll appeal to all the zombie fans AND all the Jane Austen fans? The cheque is signed before anyone looks beyond page one of the script. As it happens, “P&P&Z” is supposed to be a pretty decent book, so maybe a movie would be fun.
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These were actually books that are being adapted into movies. I bought my sister the Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and she absolutely loved it. I went and saw Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter and found it to be a blast, but that’s also because I’m not a butt hurt American from the south who hates remembering losing the war
Yeah, I’ve seen the Seth Grahame-Smith books in the store. Neat art. “Butthurt”? I’ll need to Google that.
The hardest part about creating movies like that is probably the licensing and legal stuff. If directors/studios didn’t worry about that, you’d likely to see WAY more of this stuff. It’s a cheap way to grab fans from both fandoms. And all the silly drama created in trying to predict who’s going to “win” or why it should have done this or that makes for free advertising, though perhaps not the best publicity.
Thank you for your acceptance Abbot and Costello meet the mummy was clearly the greatest piece of cinema ever made