“Night of the Lepus” was based on a book‽

I'm going to lunch with a few cow-orkers and ST is driving. While driving, we're subject to his music listening choices, which tend towards movie and video game scores. As a joke, I mention that he's playing the score to “Night of the Lepus [1]” and to my total surprise, no one else in the vehicle had ever heard of the movie.

So of course I start reading off the plot synopsis from Wikipedia [2] and I'm amazed to learn that it's based on a book! “Night of the Lepus” was originally a book! I then switch to reading the plot synopsis [3] of The Year of the Angry Rabbit (Good lord is this expensive!) [4] and … it sounds amazing! An attempt to eradicate rabbits in Australia leads to world peace through an inadvertant doomsday weapon with occasional outbreaks of killer rabbits.

Wow!

Why wasn't that movie made?

[1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069005/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_of_the_Lepus#Plot

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Year_of_the_Angry_Rabbit

[4] http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0028FOQEG/conmanlaborat-20

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