EXCLUSIVE: After a highly competitive situation, Bad Robot acquired the rights to Mona Awad’s bestseller, Rabbits, in a feature film. The novel has gained a very loyal following after being hyped on BookTok and is currently on its 14th booke Push, led to TikTok videos totaling more than 4.1 billion views, according to a Rabbits The broadcast hashtag for movie fans has gone viral.
The story follows Samantha Heather Mackey, who could not be an outsider in her small, highly selective MFA program at Warren University in New England. She is a fellow who prefers the company of her dark imagination to that of most people. She’s completely repulsed by the rest of her novelist cohort—a clique of insufferable two rich girls who call each other “Bunny” and seem to move and move. speak as one.
But everything changes when she receives an invitation to the Bunnies’ legendary “Smut Salon” and finds herself inexplicably drawn to her front door – while taking her only friend Ava on the water. As Samantha delves deeper into the sinister but sweet world of bunnies and begins to participate in the off-campus ritual “Workshop” where they conjure up their monstrous creations, the edges of reality begin to blur. Her friendships with Ava and the Bunnies soon come into deadly conflict.
BookTok has become a new destination for studios and producers to find the next big piece of IP, especially given how loyal readers can be to certain novels. Sony recently announced that Blake Lively will star in the adaptation of It Ends With Us, another big title on BookTok, and the news has become one of the biggest trending stories on social media, and Bad Robot is hoping for similar excitement when this project is coming together.
Awad is also the author of the novels Everything is good And 13 ways to look at a fat girl. her last rougewill be published by Simon & Schuster in September 2023.
The novel was published in 2019 by Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House. Awad is repped by The Clegg Agency and CAA.
Source: Deadline
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