Film trailers for books? It completely defeats the purpose of reading
Following the runaway success of ‘Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters’ and ‘Pride and Prejudice and Zombies’, the bizarre ‘mash-ups’ of Jane Austin novels published by Quirk Books, a sequel to the latter title is planned and it reportedly has a proper film trailer to promote it.
Written by Seth Grahame-Smith, the sequel is called Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dawn of the Dreadfuls. Quirk have taken the pioneering step of making a tongue-in-cheek trailer for it, featuring primly dressed madams with saucy expressions practicing their zombie-smashing ninja skills (yes, you read that correctly) as well as a cheeky Scottish Widows type in red scampering around the misty moors having a good pop at the undead.
In my opinion, this is not the future of book publishing, although it is an amusing idea as a one-off. Reading a book is about using your imagination, which I think would produce very interesting results in the case of this particular publication. Why spoil it with a movie cliché? It isn’t actually a film!