Just so we are clear, the new script by Wanted writers, Michael Brandt and Derek Haas, will have nothing to do with James Harriot's novel, All Creatures Great and Small -- although it does make a little confusing since they have the same title. The Hollywood Reporter announced that the duo have signed to complete a script for Sony and Original Films producer, Neil Moritz. According to Brandt, he and Haas came up with the idea after securing a blind deal with Sony, and Creatures was the first project they wanted to pitch to the studio. Creatures centers on a future where humans are vastly outnumbered by animals. Brandt describes a pretty bleak future for us bipeds in the script: "... where people are literally living in forts, and the animals are running free."
He added. "It's not like dogs and cats are killing people, it's that the strong have survived. Lions and bears and animals like that have all evolved, and they're slowly eating away at the human population." Brandt describes the project as a, "big, fun, fantastic 'Jurassic Park'-type movie." -- Oh sure, it's all fun and games until a cheetah is gnawing on your femur.
The writing duo has been awfully busy lately; Haas has just completed a novel, and the two have already sold a pitch to MGM for Robert Ludlum's The Matarese Circle with Denzel Washington. Brandt will also be taking a stab at directing later this year when he'll tackle the Richard Matheson flick, Countdown -- talk about striking while the iron is hot.
