After his last minute departure from Ant-Man, Edgar Wright has had to look around for other things to do. It’s already been revealed that he plans to shoot one of his long-gestating projects next, the action crime flick Baby Driver, and now he’s signed on for a new one.
He signed up for Sony Pictures’ Grasshopper Jungle, based on Andrew Smith Dutton’s young adult novel, according to Deadline.
Scott Rosenberg will write the screenplay, which is a coming-of-age story about an Iowa teenager, who has to set aside the typical troubles of hormones and sexual desires when he and his friends cause a deadly genetically engineered plague that unleashes an invasion of 6-foot-tall praying mantises.
The bugs ‘live a life the boys could only dream of, acting out on their insatiable appetites for food, fighting and fornicating’.
It’s believed Wright will shoot the movie directly after Baby Driver