“Bunny” is coming to the big screen. Bad Robot acquired film rights to Mona Awad’s bestselling novel in a “competitive situation.” Deadline broke the news.
Published in 2019, the novel tells the story of Samantha, a scholarship student in a competitive MFA program at New England’s Warren University. The outsider 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,” the source summarizes. Everything changes when Samantha “receives an invitation to the Bunnies’ fabled ‘Smut Salon,’ and finds herself inexplicably drawn to their front door — ditching her