Hasn’t Seth Grahame-Smith Done Enough?
First of course, Mr. Grahame-Smith got the ball rolling on the entire genre of ‘Mix public domain work with Zombies’, for which literature itself owes him a sound thrashing. Yes, we can lay the lion’s share of the blame for an entire subgenre of lazy, relatively unimaginative Anti-Zombie fiction at his feet, even if, of course, he wasn’t as guilty of the offense himself (being first and all).
No, Grahame-Smith is an original Zombie basher. He just has legions of followers, and worse, imitators. He’s the pied piper of postmodern humor/horror, leading mainstream publishers down to the river to drown, but on some level it’s their fault for following.
However, his attempt to turn the, again, unfortunately, highly influential ‘Pride and Prejudice and Zombies’ into a film have to date been plagued with problems, so it seems that Mr. Grahame-Smith may have to step in and co-direct the film adaptation of his Anti-Zombie work himself:
Previously both David O. Russell and Mike White were attached to direct PPZ but as time has gone by both have bowed out of the spotlight. According to THR its beginning to look like producing partners Seth Grahame-Smith and David Katzenberg may be taking up the reigns and just directing the films themselves. While this would be the directing debut for Seth, David has had directing experience before in Television.
Oh, well, I’m sure everything will work out then.
An admirable level of dedication is evident here, considering the travails that have been gone through in an attempt to bring this particular work of prejudice to life. If only Mr. Grahame-Smith would channel that effort into undoing some of the damage he’s done, to the Zombie Community, the bestseller lists, the horror section at Barnes and Noble, etc, the world might be a very different and better place.
Pity.
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