With Warner Bros.’ Orphan tracking pretty well, scribe David Leslie Johnson as been hired to pen The Colony for Participant Media and Vertigo Entertainment. The thriller is based on a pitch by Stacy Title and Jonathan Penner and is described as The Birds with bugs. Vertigo’s Roy Lee and Doug Davison (The Ring, The Grudge, Quarantine) produce along with Steven Schneider. It’s the second project Johnson is writing for Vertigo, where he’s also adapting Oz thriller Lake Mungo. That pic is set up at Paramount.Orphan arrives in theaters this Friday.