Searchlight Pictures has set Taika Waititi to direct Barn 8, based on the novel by Deb Olin Unferth, with Jessica Gao (She-Hulk: Attorney at Law) writing the script. Deadline reported that the novel "revolves around a caper: two U.S. auditors of chicken eggs plot to heist a million chickens from a factory farm, leading a team of activists in a chaotic rescue mission."
Gotham Group's Eric Robinson and Ellen Goldsmith-Vein (Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere) acquired rights to the book, and will produce the film with Waititi Productions' Waititi, Ishi Metkar, and Michelle Chan.