iHunt Monster-Hunting Series Heads to the Big Screen
The novel series and tabletop role-playing game iHunt: Killing Monsters in the Gig Economy is getting a feature film, Variety reported on 27 October 2026.
The books and game come from Olivia Hill and Filamena Young, a Chicago-based married writing duo. Working as Hill and Young, they built the iHunt universe over seven novels published across 10 years, under their Machine Age Productions banner. A banner is the company name a producer uses to label its projects.
Hill wrote the film's script. Scott Glosserman is set to direct. Jess Elgene plays Sandra, a new character created for the movie. The production is being made in association with Anarchists United Studios. Lilly Wachowski, Sarah Marie Flores and Lawrence Mattis are set as executive producers. Matt Skrobalak, Stirling Matheson, Hill and Young are producing.
The story is set in the fictional California city of San Jenaro. It follows three women who are best friends, hunting monsters through a gig-work app. Gig work means short jobs found and paid through a phone app, usually one task at a time.
The project is led by LGBTQIA+ creators. Hill is a trans woman, according to Variety, and the film is being developed with that leadership at its centre.
The iHunt world is also moving beyond the cinema. A television pilot written by Hill and Young is in development, with Anne Cofell Saunders attached as showrunner, the person who runs a series day to day. The pair have already made a vertical series, #iHunt: A Night in the Life. Vertical series are built to be watched on a phone held upright. In it, Hannah, a struggling hunter, starts livestreaming her monster hunts.
Film deals of this kind often move in stages. A book or game is optioned, a script is written, a director and cast are attached, and only then does a studio or financier commit to a shoot date.
For readers new to the franchise, the appeal is easy to picture. A monster-hunting story that runs on an app, with friends at the centre, is a clear pitch. The next public markers will be the film's distribution plans and the television pilot's progress.
