Though he left Marvel's Ant-Man, it appears Edgar Wright hasn’t got the idea of insects completely out of his system. Sony has now secured his services for the adaptation of Andrew Smith Dutton’s novel **Grasshopper Jungle.
It’s an intriguing project for Wright, and very different from anything he’s done before, despite Scott Pilgrim’s blend of youthful issues and fantasy. Beautiful Girls writer Scott Rosenberg is adapting the story, which finds an Iowa teenager in the grip of hormonal madness. Along with his friends, he somehow unleashes a genetically engineered plague that causes six-foot tall praying mantises upon their community and beyond. Teenagers today, huh? Bloomin’ typical: if they’re not playing with their X-stations or their digital watches, they’re playing God.
This will not be Wright’s next film – he most recently re-committed to developing **Baby Driver, one of his long-gestating projects. And also lurking around his development chamber is the movie version of The Night Stalker he’s been working on for Disney and Johnny Depp.