Austen vs. zombies, and now aliens!

Perhaps you thought that the tide of Jane Austen adaptations, rip-offs, spin-offs and parodies was finally crashing with Pride and Prejudice and Zombies? Think again.

Get ready for Pride and Predator, a Bennet sisters vs. aliens thriller due to hit theaters next year. The Variety story opens with a line I can't resist quoting, even if it reinforces some pretty tired gender stereotyping: "Elton John's Rocket Pictures hopes to make the first Jane Austen adaptation to which men will drag their girlfriends."

Seriously, all of these Jane Austen + Monsters projects really do seem like the punchline from a beer commercial. As we open, a lunky guy is sitting in a darkened theater, watching a Pride and Prejudice adaptation with his girlfriend. She is enraptured, he is grinding his teeth is boredom. But suddenly he has a brainstorm: "You know what this movie needs..?"