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Searchlight Sets Taika Waititi to Direct 'Barn 8' Adaptation

The project teams the filmmaker with writer Jessica Gao on a story about activists plotting a massive chicken rescue.

Overview

  • Jessica Gao, creator of She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, is writing the screenplay for the adaptation of Deb Olin Unferth’s novel.
  • Gotham Group’s Eric Robinson and Ellen Goldsmith-Vein will produce alongside Waititi Pictures’ Taika Waititi, Ishi Metkar and Michelle Chan.
  • Searchlight SVP of Production Taylor Friedman and VP of Production Pete Spencer will oversee the project.
  • The source material follows two U.S. egg auditors who plan a heist to liberate a million chickens from a factory farm.
  • Deadline reported the attachment as an exclusive, with Laughing Place subsequently corroborating the news.