Natalie Portman will star in and produce a film adaptation of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (Quirk Books, $12.95, 9781594743344/1594743347), based on the Seth Grahame-Smith/Jane Austen mashup. Variety reported that Lionsgate will finance and distribute, and "Portman will play feisty heroine Elizabeth Bennet, who is distracted from her quest to eradicate the zombie menace by the arrival of the arrogant Mr. Darcy."
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Despite Roman Polanski's legal difficulties in this country, his film version of The Ghost by Robert Harris (Pocket Star, $7.99, 9781416551829/1416551824) has found a U.S. distributor. Summit Entertainment picked up the North American rights to distribute the thriller during the first half of 2010, according to Variety. The movie stars Pierce Brosnan, Ewan McGregor, Olivia Williams, Kim Cattrall, Jim Belushi, Robert Pugh and Tom Wilkinson.