10 Literary Classics That Could Use Monsters, Robots and Gore

by Tippi Blevins February 18, 2009 1:56 PM
10 Literary Classics That Could Use Monsters, Robots and Gore

Elton John's Rocket Pictures is putting together a new take on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. They won't just be taking the same old story and transplanting it to modern times, oh no. This new reimagining will be called Pride and Predator and while it will be set in the novel's original time period, things will be decidedly different when a murderous alien is thrown into the mix. Naturally, this got me thinking. First I thought, "Elton John? Really?" Then I thought about all the other classics of literature that could get new titles and add in a few monsters, robots, or general helpings of gore.

1. The Merchant of Venus: A young Venusian merchant strikes a deal with an android lender named Cylock in order to finance a friend's spaceship. When the merchant defaults on the loan, Cylock comes calling for his pound of flesh--and this time a legal loophole won't stop him.

2. Bleak House on Haunted Hill: Sure, Richard and Ada, you'll finally win your inheritance... on the condition you survive one night in a haunted house.

3. Silas Mourner: A hermit named Silas adopts a little girl... a little girl from hell! It wasn't an opium overdose that killed her mother. Unless it was opium... from hell!

4. David Copperplanet: Have you ever seen Ice Pirates? It's like that, but he steals copper instead of ice. Copper thievery is way up for real, so it could totally happen. And anyway, there should just be more movies with Space Herpes.

5. The Importance of Being Furnaced: Two men take on assumed identities in this new take on an Oscar Wilde play, leading to misunderstandings and mishaps. When their lady loves discover the truth, the cads are are burnt to death, only to then haunt the dreams of their murderers. It's a comedy.

6. A Tale of Two Space Stations: It was the most stable of orbits, it was the most decaying of orbits...

7. Jane Eyrebender: I have no idea what it would be about, but let it fight it out with M. Night Shyamalan's take on Avatar: The Last Airbender.

8. Séance and Sensibility: Three sisters conduct a séance to ask the spirit world about the true intentions of their suitors. It's less annoying than He's Just Not That Into You, plus there are ghosts!

9. Cloverfield Park: This one sticks very closely to Jane Austen's original Mansfield Park. Except Fanny Price turns into a gigantic rampaging beast after being treated poorly by her snotty cousins.

10. Grave Expectations: Miss Havisham is now a zombie, obsessed with her wedding. It's like Bride Wars, except instead of killing the audience's soul, she devours the brains of wayward grooms.

What other literary/genre mash-ups would you like to see?

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