Olivia Cooke, Rhys Ifans, and more have been cast in The Scurry, a new movie about killer squirrels that comes from Craig Roberts.
Per Deadline, Ifans (The Amazing Spider-Man) and Cooke (House of the Dragon) will join Paapa Essiedu (I May Destroy You), Mia McKenna-Bruce (Vampire Academy), and Antonia Thomas (The Good Doctor) in The Scurry, which is described as a “comedy-horror feature” from Roberts.
What is The Scurry about?
Written by Tim Telling, the movie follows “two pest controllers who are called to an eco-café in a country park to investigate what begins as a routine vermin problem but as nightfall approaches an avalanche of deranged squirrels descend, wreaking revenge and mayhem on the staff and visitors in the park. With many fatalities, the survivors take shelter in the café as a freak storm takes out the power and communications leaving them isolated and under attack. An eclectic mix of survivors include pest controllers, a sulky teenager, hypocritical vegans, and a drug dealer – there is only an outside chance of survival.”
The movie is expected to begin shooting in South Wales in April 2024. James Swarbrick and Adrian Bate are producing The Scurry, while Tom Miller, Sam Myer, Zygi Kamasa, James Spring, James Scott, and Roberts serve as executive producers.
Roberts previously directed 2015’s Just Jim, 2019’s Eternal Beauty, and, most recently, 2021’s The Phantom of the Open. “I’m really happy that somebody has employed me again,” said of The Scurry.
“You may want to think twice about sitting in your garden or visiting your local park after seeing this movie,” Bate said. “Through Craig Roberts’ unique directorial prism and with our stellar cast, we’ll witness the forest sending in their fur-clad foot soldiers to avenge their mistreatment. It’s time for nature to bite back.”
Kamasa added, “It’s rare to find a commercial, scary, and funny British genre film with such a terrific cast that the filmmakers want to build as a potential British franchise,” Craig Roberts is enormously talented, and he and I share a love of legendary genre films like Shaun of the Dead or Gremlins. The ambition to make something similar is hugely exciting.”
A release date for The Scurry has not yet been set.
