“KPop Demon Hunters” screenwriters Danya Jimenez and Hannah McMechan are taking on some massive new IP — signing on to script Tim Burton‘s reimagining of the classic “Attack of the Fifty Foot Woman.”
Warner Bros. Pictures tapped the writing duo to write the screenplay for the film, news of which broke in 2024. Burton is attached to direct the update to the 1958 science-fiction horror movie, which follows a wealthy heiress who grows into a giant after an alien encounter and exacts revenge on her cheating husband. The “Beetlejuice” and “Nightmare Before Christmas” filmmaker is also producing the film alongside Andrew Mittman and Tommy Harper. Gillian Flynn penned an earlier version of the script.
LuckyChap — the production company led by Margot Robbie, Tom Ackerley and Josey McNamara — is on board to produce and develop; Morgan Begg, the company’s director of development, is overseeing the project. Kai Dolbashian serves as executive producer.
Jimenez and McMechan were named to Variety’s 10 Screenwriters to Watch for 2025 after penning the megahit animated movie, Sony Animation and Netflix’s “KPop Demon Hunters,” alongside co-director Maggie Kang. The screenwriting duo met while attending Loyola Marymount University; then, they got a script into the Sundance Feature Lab, where fellow screenwriter Nicole Perlman approached them with an idea that became “KPop Demon Hunters.”
“We started writing that in 2020 during the pandemic,” Jimenez told Variety last year. “At first, we were like, ‘This is going to be the biggest movie ever, and then as time passed, we were like, ‘Maybe it won’t get made. Who knows?’ And then we were on set this summer and the trailer dropped and we were shocked. You don’t really expect anything from this career. You’re just grateful to get paid and if something happens with it, that’s great.”
Added McMechan: “This was truly the first time where there was all this manpower behind it, and it felt like it was on track to being made.”
Since the release of “KPop Demon Hunters” last summer, it has become a worldwide phenomenon, becoming Netflix’s most-watched film of all time, while its songs broke records on Billboard 200. The movie is nominated for three awards at this year’s Golden Gobes including best animated motion picture, best original song and cinematic and box office achievement.
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The Hollywood Reporter broke news of Jimenez and McMechan boarding the project.
Jimenez and McMechan are repped by WME and Mosaic.
From Variety US