Pride. Predjudice. Portman. Zombies.

Want to make the average movie-goers’ eyes glaze over, start talking pre-Victorian period piece movies. You know the kind: a bunch of uptight, sniveling hat-holders in drab suits or foofy dresses in drawing rooms, sipping tea and talking. Toss in a ballroom scene and perhaps a foxhunt on horseback and you’ve got a recipe for one hundred and twenty minutes of pure movie-going anthrax.

But hey, what if you mixed in Natalie Portman and some zombies? Now, that sounds like a good time!

Variety reports that Portman will produce (by way of her production company, handsomecharle) and star in the adaptation of Seth Grahame-Smith’s book “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies”, which takes Austen’s classic (now in public domain which means anyone can use it for anything) and adds an interesting twist. Also filling the producer chairs are Annette Savitch, Richard Kelly (who directed “Donnie Darko” and more recently, “the Box”), Sean McKittrick and Ted Hamm.

The work is described as, “an expanded version of the Austen classic, the book 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.”

Some might say that Jane Austen is rolling in her grave. I think she may be clawing her way out to come see this one.