Novelist and comic-book author Mike Carey is the latest to see his dystopian, young-adult novel brought to the big screen. The writer’s 2014 book, The Girl With All The Gifts, takes place in a world where much of the population has been wiped out by a killer fungus, and tells the story of Melanie, a brilliant infected girl busting with curiosity about the outside world. Does Melanie have some sort of impressive destiny that will lead her to shake up that outside world and find herself? I have not read the novel in question, but I am going to guess she does.

The adaptation, which follows on the heels of the billion-dollar Hunger Games franchise and Divergent—the sequel to which I’m not entirely sure our own Genevieve Koski didn’t make up as some manner of early April Fool’s prank—will mark the feature-film directorial debut of Colm McCarthy, whose impressive credits include Sherlock, Doctor Who, and Peaky Blinders. Retitled as She Who Brings Gifts, the movie is set to begin filming in the U.K. in May, and stars Gemma Arterton, Paddy Considine, and, as of today, Glenn Close. 

The script, which Carey penned himself from his own novel, previously appeared on the “Brit List,” which is the British equivalent of the Black List, a famous collection of the best unproduced screenplays, and something I did not know existed until I started writing this post. Will The Girl With All The Gifts/She Who Brings Gifts be the next young-adult tentpole blockbuster? No one can tell, but the genre is red-hot right now, especially when it explores the bleary, hope-free future the kids all seem to enjoy dreaming about these days.