Doctor Who's Matt Smith joins cast of 'Pride and Prejudice and Zombies'; filming begins September 24th!

Former Doctor Who star Matt Smith has been cast in Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Seth Grahame-Smith's film adaptation of Jane Austen's classic Pride and Prejudice. The Hollywood Reporter reports that he will be playing as Mr. Collins and filming begins next week for PPZ on September 24th. Smith will co-star with Lily James, Sam Riley, Jack Huston, Bella Heathcote and Douglas Booth. Burr Steers will helm the movie with Natalie Portman as one of the producers. It is slated for a 2015 theater release.

Here's the article via THR...

'Doctor Who' Star Matt Smith Joins 'Pride and Prejudice and Zombies' (Exclusive)
Matt Smith, who recently completed a four-season stint starring in Doctor Who, has joined the cast of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, the adaptation of the Seth Grahame-Smith novel. 

The long-in-the-works, on-and-off again project is finally going before cameras Sept. 24 with a cast that includes Lily James, Sam Riley, Jack Huston, Bella Heathcote and Douglas Booth. Burr Steers is behind the camera. 

The movie is a horror-comedy spin on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. The heroine, Liz Bennett (James), is pressured by her family to marry into a wealthy upper-class home but chafes at the stiff social mores of Victorian England. Instead, she feels that she should help defend the countryside against the onslaught of a horrifying zombie plague.Smith will play Mr. Collins, a parson who is on the lookout for a wife and proposes to Bennett. 

Producing are Cross Creek's Brian Oliver, Allison Shearmur, Sean McKittrick, Natalie Portman, Annette Savitch, Tyler Thompson and Marc Butan.