Ahoy, squirts! Quint here... I know what you're thinking, from ANT-MAN to THEM, ol' Edgar must have a fixation on bugs! However THEM is not a remake of the classic '50s sci-fi flick THEM!, but rather an adaptation of the Jon Ronson book THEM: ADVENTURES WITH EXTREMISTS. Variety says that Mike White (SCHOOL OF ROCK) will write the screenplay and produce along with Jack Black under their production banner Black and White (creative, no?).
Amazon's summary on Ronson's book:
In Them, British humorist Jon Ronson relates his misadventures as he engages an assortment of theorists and activists residing on the fringes of the political, religious, and sociological spectrum. His subjects include Omar Bakri Mohammed, the point man for a holy war against Britain (Ronson paints him as a wily buffoon); a hypocritical but engaging Ku Klux Klan leader; participants in the Ruby Ridge and Waco, Texas, battles; the Irish Protestant firebrand Ian Paisley; and David Ickes, who believes that the semi-human descendants of evil extraterrestrial 12-foot-tall lizards walk among us. Despite these characters' disparities, they are bound by a belief in the Bilderberg Group, the "secret rulers of the world." In a final chapter, Ronson manages, with surprising ease, to penetrate these rulers' very lair. He writes with wry, faux-naive wit and eschews didacticism, instead letting his subjects' words and actions speak for themselves.
