Elizabeth Bennet, played by "Downtown Abbey's" Lily James, becomes a total bad ass in the new "Pride & Prejudice" movie trailer.
The movie is based on Seth Grahame-Smith's best-selling novel, which gives a new twist to the classic tale of Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy from Jane Austen's novel, "Pride & Prejudice."
The new "Pride & Prejudice & Zombies" trailer features Lily James from "Downtown Abbey" as Elizabeth Bennet, set in a zombie apocalyptic Regency-era England, Variety reported.
"To succeed in polite society, a young woman must be many things: kind, well-read and accomplished," James narrates in the trailer. "But to survive in the world as we know it, she'll need other qualities."
The trailer then transitions into bad-ass fight scenes with zombies while Elizabeth and her sisters donned dresses.
In the trailer, Lily James is joined in combat by Sam Riley as Mr. Darcy, Douglas Booth as Mr. Bingley, Bella Heathcote and Suki Waterhouse as Elizabeth's sisters, according to Vanity Fair.
Lena Headey, Matt Smith, Charles Dance and Jack Huston also star in the movie.
During this year's San Diego Comic Con, "Pride & Prejudice & Zombies" movie director, Burr Steers ("17 Again") said that the horror-comedy flick is about "the most repressed society you possibly could imagine and then bringing in the element of these agents of malicious chaos to bear."
"I approached it like a real movie, so my research was more like the effects of meth on people to see them change, as they get all desiccated and drawn, their eyes not looking right at you, very spooky," Steers explained of how he directed the film.
"And then there was a study in an old black and white film about people who had contracted rabies, like the Tuskegee experiments where they weren't trying to cure them. They just wanted to see the effects of rabies on people. And the old zombie watchers in Haiti," he added.
The trailer comes a few months before "Pride & Prejudice & Zombies" movie opens in U.S. theaters on February 5, 2016.
