The World Without Us... the movie?

Huh.

According to THR.com, Fox Pictures has acquired the film rights to Alan Weisman's The World Without Us. They plan to transform the bestselling nonfiction title into "a fictional feature [film] buttressed by the book's science". Apparently, they're going to stick in a plot line about how, exactly, humanity kicks the bucket.

Seems like a weird choice for a movie (and seriously, don't we have enough depressing stuff to watch already?), but whatever sells, I suppose.