Huh.

According to THR.com, Fox Pictures has acquired the film rights to Alan Weisman's The World Without Us. They plan to transform the bestselling nonfiction title into "a fictional feature [film] buttressed by the book's science". Apparently, they're going to stick in a plot line about how, exactly, humanity kicks the bucket.

Seems like a weird choice for a movie (and seriously, don't we have enough depressing stuff to watch already?), but whatever sells, I suppose.

Labels: Movie Adaptations, Nonfiction