Director Colm McCarthy, best known for his TV work on Sherlock and Peaky Blinders, has tapped up the trio to inhabit a world ravaged by an infection, Ophiocordyceps unilateralis, that’s reduced a large chunk of humanity to ravenous creatures called 'Hungries’. The surviving uninfected have built safe havens to avoid being turned into hungries canapé. One of them, ten-year-old Melanie, has been captured and is being studied by captors intrigued by her genius-level IQ.
Runs the enigmatic synopsis: "Every morning, Melanie waits in her cell to be collected for class. When they come for her, Sergeant Parks keeps his gun pointing at her while two of his people strap her into a wheelchair. She thinks they don't like her. She jokes that she won't bite. But they don't laugh. Melanie is a very special girl.”
She Who Brings Gifts shoots in the UK in May with Camille Gatin and ’71 man Angus Lamont producing. “It’s hugely exciting to combine Mike Carey’s truly original script and Colm McCarthy’s dynamic yet sensitive style with such a terrific cast,” say Gatin. Joss Whedon fans take note. The Avengers man is a big fan of the novel, describing it as “heartfelt, remorseless and painfully human… as fresh as it is terrifying. A jewel."
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