WANTED scribes on ALL CREATURES GREAT & SMALL

Michael Brandt and Derek Haas, the screenwriters of Wanted, 3:10 to Yuma and the upcoming adaptations of The A-Team and Spy Hunter have landed yet a new project according to The Hollywood Reporter. They have just cooked up a world where animals control the planet, with humans in the minority - the old switch-a-roo science fiction plot device, though from the sounds of things animals won't be able to talk like Planet of the Apes. It's titled All Creatures Great & Small and it's setup at Sony. They cite Jurassic Park as their inspiration.

"Because of people's inability to quench their thirst for oil and consumption of resources, we basically ruin the planet, and the planet fights back," Brandt said. "And part of that is the quick evolution of many of the animals."

"Creatures" takes place in North America, "where people are literally living in forts, and the animals are running free," he added. "It's not like dogs and cats are killing people, it's that the strong have survived. Lions and bears and animals like that have all evolved, and they're slowly eating away at the human population."

I do kinda dig the idea of a full out survival movie, in the vein of something like Rambo but less bloodier and obviously the villains being the animals. A movie like Predator I guess but with animals... where one of them gets picked off at a time until the big group gets smaller and smaller. That I would love to see! The duo also have the Denzel Washington thriller The Matarase Circle in development from a Robert Ludlum novel and Brandt is set to make his directorial debut this year on Countdown - an adaptation of a Richard Matheson Twilight Zone episode.