Lilly Wachowski Exec-Produces ‘iHunt’ Film Adaptation

A feature film adaptation of iHunt: Killing Monsters in the Gig Economy follows seven novels released over 10 years by Hill and Young. The production announcement identifies Olivia Hill and Filamena Young as the Chicago-based, queer married writing duo behind the modern horror project. They developed the independently distributed novel series and tabletop role-playing game under Machine Age Productions.

Hill is a trans woman, and the announcement describes the project as LGBTQIA+-led. Olivia Hill wrote the screenplay, while the feature will be filmed in association with Anarchists United Studios.

The announced director, Scott Glosserman, helmed Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon and its sequel, currently in production. Jess Elgene is featured as Sandra, a new character created specifically for the film.

The announced executive producers are Lilly Wachowski, Sarah Marie Flores and Lawrence Mattis; the announcement identifies Wachowski with The Matrix. The feature producers are Matt Skrobalak of Butler Hall Productions, Stirling Matheson of Bravura Arts and Entertainment Ltd., and Hill and Filamena Young of Machine Age Productions.

The official synopsis places the story in San Jenaro, a fictional California city: “Set in the fictional California city of San Jenaro, #iHunt follows a trio of women who are best friends navigating monster-hunting through a gig-work app, blending horror-comedy with sharp socioeconomic commentary.”

“#iHunt has been our focus for the past 10 years, and we want nothing more than to bring it to a wider audience,” Hill and Young said in a statement. “Supernatural horror has always been an amazing tool for telling stories about the very real problems people face. And if you’ve stood up to eviction and Dracula, you know eviction can be so much scarier.”

“What drew me to Olivia’s script is how cleverly she uses the conventions of horror to explore something genuinely frightening, which is the illusion of choice in a world where survival itself has become a gig.

It’s irreverent, provocative and supremely entertaining, but beneath all the monsters and mayhem is a story about what freedom really means when you can’t afford to say no. That’s the kind of genre storytelling I love,” Glosserman said in a statement.

“Anarchists United is thrilled to be on board with #iHunt and support Olivia Hill and Filamena Young’s referential and all too relatable world of late late-stage capitalism in the vampiric age,” Anarchists United said in a statement. “Even in afterdeath, access to health insurance bites, but besties are worth fighting for.”

What does the adaptation change for readers and players?

For readers and players, the route now extends from independent books and a tabletop game into film and television development. The announcement provides no release date, so the adaptation is not yet available to watch. What changes now is the production path: one feature and one television pilot are in development, alongside the vertical series.

The announcement says a television pilot written by Hill and Young is also in development. Anne Cofell Saunders, credited on The Boys, is attached as showrunner, the executive who oversees a television series. Its logline, or one-sentence premise, reads:

“Set in the same city with an entirely different cast of characters, the pilot follows Lana, who leads a crew of broke hunters taking gigs through the app until a routine hospital job turns into a full-blown monster infestation and puts them on the radar of Arthur, an ancient vampire executive.”

The pilot keeps San Jenaro and its app-based labor structure but changes the central characters. Its hospital job and Arthur’s corporate role extend the premise beyond the feature’s trio of female friends.

Hill and Young have also created #iHunt: A Night in the Life, a vertical-video series with another entry point into the same world. Its logline states: “Hannah, a struggling hunter, figures out the real money is in content and starts livestreaming her monster hunts.”

The announcement also lists three representation agreements:

• Jess Elgene is represented by Artists First and Resolute Artists Agency.
• Scott Glosserman is represented by attorney Tanya Mallean of Skrzyniarz & Mallean.
• Stirling Matheson is represented by attorney Arthur Evrensel of MEP Business Counsel.

Together, the announced slate links a feature, a pilot and a vertical series within the #iHunt universe. The feature and pilot share San Jenaro and app-based gig labor, while the vertical series follows a hunter monetizing content. For now, the concrete next step is production: the announcement gives no feature filming or release date, and Glosserman’s focus on freedom under gig work sets the standard for what that production must preserve.