This is already my new favorite movie.
Fresh off of Baby Driver, set for release on June 28th, Shaun of the Dead filmmaker Edgar Wright is wasting no time finding another project. THR reports today that New Regency is in final negotiations to pick up Wright’s adaptation of Grasshopper Jungle, a young adult novel published in 2014. The novel was penned by Andrew Smith. Scott Rosenberg wrote the script.
Netflix and several other companies were bidding on the rights.
The post-apocalyptic tale is set in the small town of Ealing, Iowa:
Austin and his best friend, Robby, have accidentally unleashed an unstoppable army. An army of horny, hungry, six-foot-tall praying mantises that only want to do two things.
Matt Tolmach and Nira Park will produce the Wright-directed adaptation.
