Recently it was reported that British filmmaker Edgar Wright will direct Baby Driver for Working Title as his first film following his departure from Ant-Man, and now he’s added another project to his slate with Deadline revealing that he’s signed on to adapt Andrew Smith’s YA novel Grasshopper Jungle.
The tale is described as “a coming-of-age story that focuses on an Iowa teen trying to come to grips with his own raging hormones and sexual feelings as he and his cohorts cause a deadly genetically engineered plague that unleashes an army of 6-foot-tall praying mantises. Those bugs live the life these guys wish for, acting on an insatiable appetite for fighting, food, and fornicating.”
Grasshopper Jungle is being adapted by Scott Rosenberg (Beautiful Girls), who is producing alongside Matt Tolmach (The Amazing Spider-Man 2).
Originally published July 26, 2014. Updated January 18, 2020.
