Bad Robot Lands Film Rights To Mona Awad’s Best-Selling Novel ‘Bunny’
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Following a competitive situation, Bad Robot has acquired rights to adapt Mona Awad’s bestselling novel Bunny into a feature film.
The novel gained a loyal fan base after blowing up on BookTok and is currently in its 14th printing, spurred by TikTok videos totaling more than 4.1 billion views after a Bunny movie fan-casting hashtag went viral.
The story follows Samantha Heather Mackey, who couldn’t be more of an outsider in her small, highly selective MFA program at New England’s Warren University.
A scholarship student who prefers the company of her dark imagination to that of most people, she 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.
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