It's been a surprisingly long quest to find a director for Seth Grahame-Smith's Austen/Romero mash-up Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, but Vulture has it that Craig Gillespie, fresh off the Colin Farrell/David Tennant Fright Night remake, is in final negotiations.

Let's hope he gets further than David O Russell, Mike Newell, Matt Reeves or Neil Marshall.

Meanwhile, the movie version of Grahame-Smith's Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter has been gathering pace recently. You can click here to read some of the latest casting developments.