Doctor Who star Matt Smith has joined the cast of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, the long-in-development adaptation of author Seth Grahame-Smith‘s twist on the classic Jane Austen novel.

Smith will play Mr. Collins, a clergyman on the search for a wife who proposes to the main heroine, Elizabeth Bennett, who will be played by Lily James (Downton Abbey, Cinderella [2015]).