When innovation becomes their only hope of salvation, will the ill-equipped group triumph or die? As rescue becomes more of a remote possibility, Greenloop's pampered citizens start seeing shadowed glimpses of huge, humanoid creatures creeping closer and growing hungrier by the hour. Confident that help is on the horizon, residents figure they're safe for a couple of days without gourmet cheese, fresh fruit, Amazon drone deliveries, and high-speed internet.īut something lurks in the surrounding woods that makes wildlife flee for safety. Fans of the book were disappointed that the movie slimmed down the scope of the story to a more traditional narrative, but since Devolution seems to be a more focused story, perhaps that same issue won't be a problem in this adaptation.Devolution, which hits bookstores on June 16 from Del Rey Books, begins with the violent eruption of Washington's Mount Rainier, which completely cuts off the idyllic, high-tech eco-community of Greenloop. World War Z was adapted into a 2013 movie starring Brad Pitt, which had a troubled production and ultimately ended up making more than $540 million worldwide. Brooks, who is the son of comedian Mel Brooks, wrote for Saturday Night Live for a couple of years in the early 2000s and also has a 'story by' credit on the 2016 movie The Great Wall. Like World War Z before it, this book is partially told from the perspective of a fictional version of Brooks himself in that book, the premise is that he travelled the world interviewing survivors of the zombie apocalypse, and in Devolution, he's conducting a scientific investigation into the Bigfoot tales and reproducing the fictional Kate Holland's journal entries alongside his work. It is described as 'part survival narrative, part bloody horror tale, part scientific journey into the boundaries between truth and fiction.' The tale is told via the lens of town resident Kate Holland. Rainier that, in the aftermath of a volcanic eruption, is rampaged by ferocious beasts known as the Sasquatch. The story is set in a model eco-community town in the shadow of Mt. Here's how THR describes the story of Devolution:

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