Look, I know you guys are addicted to your Mad Lib killer animal script where you just write in different character names and that week’s featured creature (“…suddenly, Dyanne is attacked by the rampaging Drop Bear …”), but seriously, the news constantly tosses you great, ready-made ideas you could whip into at least better scripts if you would just invest, I don’t know, five hours more efforts in the screenplays. I mean, it works for the 14 Law & Order shows, right?
“The flies “dive-bomb” the fire ants and lay eggs. The maggot that hatches inside the ant eats away at the brain, and the ant starts exhibiting what some might say is zombie-like behavior.
“At some point, the ant gets up and starts wandering,” said Rob Plowes, a research associate at UT.
The maggot eventually migrates into the ant’s head, but Plowes said he “wouldn’t use the word ‘control’ to describe what is happening. There is no brain left in the ant, and the ant just starts wandering aimlessly. This wandering stage goes on for about two weeks. The other symptom of this process is a voracious, uncontrollable appetite for human flesh.”
[Note: Above excerpt may have been slightly edited for clarity’s sake.]
Zombie Fire Ants!!! How can you not make that into a movie? Morons.
