The story has been picked to be directed by the phenomenal director of Pirates of the Caribbean, Gore Verbinski. He has been known to be working with famous writer Dennis Kelly who wrote the story for the original British Series “Utopia”. Netflix has ordered for a film for this particular adaptation and the same is in works at the moment.
The story of the Sandkings follows the journey of a wealthy man Simon Kress, set in the Thousand Worlds Universe. Simon is a resident of the planet Baldur who loves to collect dangerous, exotic animals. He purchases a terrarium to house four colonies of these creatures called “sandkings”. This is where things start going wrong, as not everything is what it seems to be.
The creatures have special ability. They will fill any environment they are kept in and as they happen to escape the terrarium made for them, they slowly take over Simon’s personal world, with the need to grow and satisfy them. The story’s twisted plot is what pulled Gore Verbinski towards it.
There has been no official announcement as to who it will star and when it will release, it is still being planned and looks like it is in its pre production stage. The story of Sandkings is known amongst the DC Universe as DC Comics adapted it into a graphic novel in 1987. The story was also previously adapted into a TV movie starring Beau Bridges.