Pandorum scribe Travis Milloy adapting killer bird novel The Flock

Author James Robert Smith revealed that the feature adaptation of his novel THE FLOCK is moving forward in development: a screenplay has been completed by PANDORUM scribe Travis Milloy. Although Smith himself hasn’t read the script, he says that “all that are involved with this project are very happy with it.”

There is a short list of directors (whom can’t be revealed at this point, of course) being considered to helm the project. The “eco-thriller” was optioned in 2009 by AngryFilms’ Don Murphy and Susan Montford, a pair who recently executive produced SPLICE. Here is the synopsis:

A remote Florida swamp has been targeted for theme-park development, and the swamp’s inhabitants are none too happy. It doesn’t help that the residents are a colony of intelligent, prehistoric, dinosaur-like birds. This flock of beasts has escaped the mass extinction that killed off the dinosaurs, relying on stealth, cunning, and killer instinct. The creatures have been living in secret, just outside our developed world.

As the developers push to have the recently-discovered animals exterminated, a billionaire rogue environmentalist step in to protect these rare, predatory creatures. A naïve young Fish and Wildlife officer finds himself caught in between these two incredibly powerful forces, and may find out the hard way that man is the most dangerous predator of them all…

Order James Robert Smith’ The Flock HERE.

PANDORUM’s Antje Traue