The horror novel Manhunt by Gretchen Felker-Martin is getting the adaptation treatment by none other than Lilly Wachowski, the writer-director who, with her sibling, was behind The Matrix films as well as Speed Racer and the Netflix series Sense8.
In an interview with Autostraddle, Wachowski shared that she is involved in an adaptation of Manhunt, something that Felker-Martin confirmed via social media.
“The cat’s out of the bag, baby,” the author posted on X. “I’m adapting MANHUNT for TV with Lilly Wachowski, and I couldn’t be prouder or more excited to be writing it. We’re going to do our damnedest to bring this thing kicking, screaming, and queer as hell onto the screen.”
Manhunt is a post-apocalyptic tale where a virus transforms anyone with certain levels of testosterone into “feral men.” Here’s the book’s blurb, and you can also read the first chapter of the book here:
Beth and Fran spend their days traveling the ravaged New England coast, hunting feral men and harvesting their organs in a gruesome effort to ensure they’ll never face the same fate.
Robbie lives by his gun and one hard-learned motto: other people aren’t safe.
After a brutal accident entwines the three of them, this found family of survivors must navigate murderous TERFs, a sociopathic billionaire bunker brat, and awkward relationship dynamics―all while outrunning packs of feral men, and their own demons.
It sounds like the project is still in its early days, so no news yet on where the adaptation might end up or potentially go into production.
