EXCLUSIVE: Following a extremely aggressive scenario, Unhealthy Robotic has acquired the rights to adapt Mona Awad’s bestselling novel, Bunny, right into a function movie. The novel gained massively loyal fan base after blowing up on BookTok and is at the moment in its 14th printing, spurred TikTok movies totaling over of 4.1 billion views, after a Bunny film fan-casting hashtag went viral.
The story follows, Samantha Heather Mackey, who couldn’t be extra of an outsider in her small, extremely selective MFA program at New England’s Warren College. A scholarship pupil who prefers the corporate of her darkish creativeness to that of most individuals, she is totally repelled by the remainder of her fiction writing cohort–a clique of unbearably twee wealthy women who name one another “Bunny,” and appear to maneuver and converse as one.
However all the things adjustments when she receives an invite to the Bunnies’ fabled “Smut Salon,” and finds herself inexplicably drawn to their entrance door–ditching her solely good friend, Ava, within the course of. As Samantha plunges deeper and deeper into the Bunnies’ sinister but saccharine world, starting to participate within the ritualistic off-campus “Workshop” the place they conjure their monstrous creations, the sides of actuality start to blur. Quickly, her friendships with Ava and the Bunnies shall be introduced into lethal collision.
BookTok has grow to be a brand new go to for studios and producers to seek out that subsequent huge piece of IP particularly given how loyal the readers could be to sure novels. Sony not too long ago introduced that Blake Energetic can be starring in its adaptation of It Ends With Us, one other big title on BookTok, and information grew to become one of many largest trending tales on social media and Unhealthy Robotic hopes for related pleasure as this venture comes collectively.
Awad can also be the writer of the novels All’s Properly and 13 Methods of a Fats Lady. Her newest, Rouge, is forthcoming with Simon & Schuster in September 2023.
The novel was printed in 2019 by Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random Home. Awad is represented by The Clegg Company and CAA.
