According to The Hollywood Reporter, Smith will play Mr. Collins, a parson who is on the lookout for a wife and proposes to the film’s main character, Elizabeth Bennett.
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A horror-comedy twist on the Jane Austen classic, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies was a phenomenal best-seller and the film has been stuck in development hell for years. The adaptation will finally come to the screen with a cast that includes Smith, Lily James, Sam Riley, Jack Huston, Bella Heathcote and Douglas Booth.
Burr Steers, who has mostly worked in TV and teen features but who directed the wildly-underrated Igby Goes Down, is set to direct.
