We've just checked the calendar and it is not April 1st, so it looks like Natalie Portman really is going to star in and produce a film adaptation of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. Yes, she's set to neatly combine a face that looks like butter wouldn't melt in her mouth with a penchant for tackling projects that are a little bit out there.
After all, she's recently finished shooting on Your Highness, a thoroughly R-rated comedy from David Gordon Green and Danny McBride, and now she's set to tackle a reimagined version of the Jane Austen classic, where as Elizabeth Bennet she'll spend her time not only fancying Mr Darcy but also slaying hordes of the undead with martial arts skills picked up in the Far East.
The book, created by Seth Grahame-Smith adding bits to 80% of Jane Austen's classic original, is something of a one-trick pony, but sometimes single-joke concepts work better onscreen than they do in literary form, so fingers crossed for this one, and nunchuks at the ready.