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‘KPop Demon Hunters’ Duo to Write Tim Burton’s ‘Attack of the Fifty Foot Woman’

Writers of Netflix's most-watched film KPop Demon Hunters are scripting Tim Burton's remake of the cult classic Attack of the 50 Foot Woman for Warner Bros.

  • Warner Bros. Pictures tapped Danya Jimenez and Hannah McMechan to write the screenplay for Tim Burton's remake of Attack of the 50 Foot Woman , a reimagining of the cult sci-fi film about a giant heiress.
  • After KPop Demon Hunters became Netflix's most-watched film, Danya Jimenez and Hannah McMechan were named to Variety's 10 Screenwriters to Watch for 2025 alongside co-director Maggie Kang.
  • Margot Robbie's LuckyChap is producing the remake with Morgan Begg overseeing development, while Gillian Flynn wrote an earlier draft and Kai Dolbashian serves as executive producer.
  • Currently, the two are taking out their original series A Really Bad Person with Legendary producing while writing Brothers for Apple TV and serving as staff writers on the Ren & Stimpy reboot.
  • Taking on this B-movie positions the writers with major IP, as the 1958 original was produced on a shoestring 88,000 budget and remains a cult sci-fi classic.
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After resurrecting his career with the Wednesday series and the late sequel Bitelchús Bitelchús, Tim Burton is already developing his new and gigantic project: to carry out the remake of the cult classic, The Attack of the 50-foot Woman. A risky exercise that in the key of series fantasy B, will count on the media impulse of its protagonist, Margot Robbie. Although now, we know that the direction of the genius creator of Big Fish and the stellar…

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The Hollywood Reporter broke the news in Los Angeles, United States on Friday, January 9, 2026.
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