As an avid “Ratatouille” fan, I always hoped for a sequel: “Ratatouille Goes To Italy,” or something of the sort; but this time, learning that rats were coming back to "a movie theatre near me", gave me the chills. Turns out the producers of the killer whale documentary, “Blackfish,” (also known as SeaWorld’s nemeses) have taken on a new project involving not-so-popular animals: New York City rats. Yes, you read that right, last Sunday night at the Toronto International Film Festival, the producers announced their plans to adapt the book “Rats: Observations on the History and Habitat of the City's Most Unwanted Inhabitants” by Robert Sullivan, into a feature length documentary.
The producers also shared they’ve been "…obsessed and terrified by rats living in NYC over the years and when we read Robert Sullivan's book we couldn't put it down." For this reason, the author of the 2005 bestseller will be "serving as an advisor on the film and will share his extensive archive of research materials that didn't make it into the book." Sullivan told The Hollywood Reporter, "I myself am getting ready to travel deep into what a city is and how we think about ourselves as creatures, among other things."
Sullivan concluded by saying, "I love that (Dakota Group and Submarine) are able to take a theme and explore it to great and reverberating depths. In their hands, "Rats" will take us to great places. I myself am getting ready to travel deep into what a city is and how we think about ourselves as creatures, among other things." I honestly think this will be a tough movie for New Yorkers to swallow since it will feature facts like which are the most notoriously rat-infested areas of the city, or that they can have sex 20 times a day and produce thousands of offspring. Eeesssh!
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