Well this is...interesting...

The phrase "loose adaptation" is about to be pretty much defined with this upcoming project, coming out of Elton John's Rocket Pictures movie studio.

This news item is actually kind of old by now, but I just discovered it a while ago and it's certainly strange enough to earn it a pass. It comes off the pages of Variety, reported by Michael Fleming:

Elton John's Rocket Pictures hopes to make the first Jane Austen adaptation to
which men will drag their girlfriends.
Will Clark is set to direct "Pride
and Predator," which veers from the traditional period costume drama when an
alien crash lands and begins to butcher the mannered protags, who suddenly have
more than marriage and inheritance to worry about.
Shooting will begin in
London later this year. John exec produces, and his Rocket partners Steve
Hamilton Shaw and David Furnish are producing.
Clark, who directed
award-winning short "The Amazing Trousers," wrote the script with Andrew Kemble
and John Pape.
"It felt like a fresh and funny way to blow apart the
done-to-death Jane Austen genre by literally dropping this alien into the middle
of a costume drama, where he stalks and slashes to horrific effect," Furnish
said.
John will supervise the music, as he does in each Rocket-produced
film.
The company is in production on the CG-animated "Gnomeo and Juliet"
for Miramax/Disney; James McAvoy and Emily Blunt voice the title characters.
Rocket is also behind the Sundance series "Spectacle: Elvis Costello With
..."

I had no idea that Elton John even had his own movie studio before this. I've always suspected, though, that the man might be slightly insane.

This reminds me of a friend of mine from high school. He was really good with Photoshop, and one time he made a movie poster for a movie called "Plagal Cadence." It featured classical composers like Beethoven and Johann Sebastian Bach pointing tommy guns at each other amidst a dark scenery of exploding sheet music. I think that's a solid assumption of what watching this film will feel like. It'll probably be Van Helsing-esque, from the sound of it.

Also, somebody really ought to let Hollywood know that people are sick of seeing remakes of Pride and Prejudice over and over again. Jane Austen wrote other books too, you know.