Animals are running amok in upcoming comedy-horror movie The Scurry. Deadline announced today a rather impressive cast set to take on an “avalanche of deranged squirrels.”
Olivia Cooke (“House of the Dragon“),Rhys Ifans (Spider-Man: No Way Home),Paapa Essiedu (Men), Mia McKenna-Bruce (“Vampire Academy”) and Antonia Thomas (“The Good Doctor”) have all joined that cast of the horror feature from director Craig Roberts.
The Scurry will follow “two pest controllers who are called to an eco-café in a country park to investigate what begins as a routine vermin problem but as nightfall approaches an avalanche of deranged squirrels descend, wreaking revenge and mayhem on the staff and visitors in the park. With many fatalities, the survivors take shelter in the café as a freak storm takes out the power and communications leaving them isolated and under attack. An eclectic mix of survivors include pest controllers, a sulky teenager, hypocritical vegans, and a drug dealer – there is only an outside chance of survival.”
Tim Telling wrote the screenplay.
Producers are James Swarbrick for Water & Power and Adrian Bate for Cliff Edge. Executive producers are Tom Miller and Sam Myer for Water & Power, Roberts for Cliff Edge, Kamasa for True Brit, James Spring and James Scott for Circus Studios and Joe Simpson and Simon Williams for Ashland Hill. Water & Power Productions, Cliff Edge Pictures and Circus Studios are producing the project while Zygi Kamasa’s True Brit Entertainment has boarded the project as UK distributor and co-producer.
The film is set to begin production next month.
“It’s great to be back in business with the legend that is Craig Roberts, from his visual flair and skill with the camera meant that the moment we read Tim’s incredible script there was only one man for the job,” said Swarbrick in a statement. “Craig brings a humour and wit to his work, which is ideally suited to a horrifying rodent apocalypse.”
Bate told Deadline “You may want to think twice about sitting in your garden or visiting your local park after seeing this movie. Through Craig Roberts’ unique directorial prism and with our stellar cast, we’ll witness the forest sending in their fur clad foot soldiers to avenge their mistreatment. It’s time for nature to bite back.”
Will The Scurry induce a new phobia of squirrels? We’ll have to wait to find out; stay tuned.
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