“Bunny” is coming to the large display. Bad Robot acquired movie rights to Mona Awad’s bestselling novel in a “competitive situation.” Deadline broke the information.
Published in 2019, the novel tells the story of Samantha, a scholarship pupil in a aggressive MFA program at New England’s Warren University. The outsider is “utterly repelled by the rest of her fiction writing cohort — a clique of unbearably twee rich girls who call each other ‘Bunny’ and seem to move and speak as one,” the supply summarizes. Everything adjustments when Samantha “receives an invitation to the Bunnies’ fabled ‘Smut Salon,’ and finds herself inexplicably drawn to their front door — ditching her only friend, Ava, in the process. As Samantha plunges deeper and deeper into the Bunnies’ sinister yet saccharine world, beginning to take part in the ritualistic off-campus ‘Workshop’ where they conjure their monstrous creations, the edges of reality begin to blur. Soon, her friendships with Ava and the Bunnies will be brought into deadly collision.”
The sale comes after the novel, which is now in its 14th printing, “gained a loyal fan base after blowing up on BookTok” with “TikTok videos totaling more than 4.1 billion views after a Bunny movie fan-casting hashtag went viral,” Deadline particulars.
Awad can also be the creator of “All’s Well” and “13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl.” “Rouge,” her newest guide, his cabinets in September. The gothic fairy story facilities on a gown store clerk.
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