Edgar Wright, the director who brought us Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, The World’s End, and more, has announced that his next project will be adapting Andrew Smith’s Ya novel Grasshopper Jungle into a feature-length film, according to THR.… Continue Reading →
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- 4/13/2017
- by Jonathan Barkan
- DreadCentral.com
Back in 2014, it was announced that Edgar Wright would be directing a feature film adaptation of the Andrew Smith Ya novel Grasshopper Jungle. We haven't heard anything about the film since. Now it looks like the film is finally going to move forward. According to THR, New Regency is about to pick up the adaptation and push it into production.
The story is described as Stand By Me meets Attack The Block, which is a perfect story for Wright to bring to the big screen! If you're not familiar with the story, it's a coming-of-age tale 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,...
The story is described as Stand By Me meets Attack The Block, which is a perfect story for Wright to bring to the big screen! If you're not familiar with the story, it's a coming-of-age tale 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,...
- 4/13/2017
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
Resting on laurels is for suckers.
It’s been four excruciatingly long years since The World’s End, the last film from Edgar Wright, which in Edgar-Wright-fan years is like a century. He was set up to direct Ant-Man, but we all know how that turned out. And while you might think Wright spent some of his time post-Marvel licking that particular wound, you’d be wrong, because Edgar Wright knows that living well is the best revenge, so in the last few years he’s been busy gearing up for not one but two films. Immediately after Ant-Man Wright started developing Baby Driver, which is at long last completed, set for a June 28 release, and so far is garnering the best reviews of the director’s career. At the same time he was starting Baby Driver back in 2014, though, there was another project the director was kicking around, an adaptation of the novel Grasshopper Jungle, and...
It’s been four excruciatingly long years since The World’s End, the last film from Edgar Wright, which in Edgar-Wright-fan years is like a century. He was set up to direct Ant-Man, but we all know how that turned out. And while you might think Wright spent some of his time post-Marvel licking that particular wound, you’d be wrong, because Edgar Wright knows that living well is the best revenge, so in the last few years he’s been busy gearing up for not one but two films. Immediately after Ant-Man Wright started developing Baby Driver, which is at long last completed, set for a June 28 release, and so far is garnering the best reviews of the director’s career. At the same time he was starting Baby Driver back in 2014, though, there was another project the director was kicking around, an adaptation of the novel Grasshopper Jungle, and...
- 4/13/2017
- by H. Perry Horton
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
When Edgar Wright exited Marvel‘s “Ant-Man” in the spring of 2014, it was the kind of move that would’ve frozen some directors, and left them wondering what to do next. But Wright didn’t waste much time in looking ahead, setting up two films in quick succession: “Baby Driver,” which opens in theaters this summer, and an adaptation of Andrew Smith‘s novel “Grasshopper Jungle.” And fresh off the heels of “Baby Driver,” that latter project is gaining heat.
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- 4/12/2017
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
With buzz building on his action thriller Baby Driver, Edgar Wright is setting his sights on his next potential project, the adaptation of Andrew Smith's Ya novel Grasshopper Jungle.
New Regency is in final negotiations to pick up the project, winning a rights war that included Netflix as a competitor, among several other companies.
Wright is on board as director with Matt Tolmach, the producer behind the upcoming comedy Rough Night and adventure movie Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, producing along with Wright's producer partner Nira Park. Scott Rosenberg wrote the script.
Grasshopper Jungle mashed up...
New Regency is in final negotiations to pick up the project, winning a rights war that included Netflix as a competitor, among several other companies.
Wright is on board as director with Matt Tolmach, the producer behind the upcoming comedy Rough Night and adventure movie Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, producing along with Wright's producer partner Nira Park. Scott Rosenberg wrote the script.
Grasshopper Jungle mashed up...
- 4/8/2017
- by Borys Kit
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Edgar Wright hasn't just been sitting around eating Cornettos since exiting Marvel's Ant-man. The World's End director is gearing up for the music-filled heist movie Baby Driver, is attached to direct an adaption of the Andrew Smith Ya novel "Grasshopper Jungle," and is working on a new project with Simon Pegg. But that's not all, folks. It's being reported that Edgar Wright recently submitted the screenplay for a steampunk Oliver...
- 1/27/2015
- by Jesse Giroux
- JoBlo.com
Beloved British filmmaker Edgar Wright and the effortlessly charming "Fault in Our Stars" actor Ansel Elgort are teaming up for Wright's next project "Baby Driver".
Variety reports that Elgort has apparently beat out the likes of Logan Lerman and John Boyega and is in early talks to star in the film for which plot details are scarce. It has only been described as a "collision of crime, action, music and sound".
Meanwhile, Vulture spoke with Wright this week about his proposed adaptation of Andrew Smith‘s young adult novel "Grasshopper Jungle".
He revealed that he'd considered the idea, forgot about it, and was reminded about it following a Facebook post in which the film came up.
Variety reports that Elgort has apparently beat out the likes of Logan Lerman and John Boyega and is in early talks to star in the film for which plot details are scarce. It has only been described as a "collision of crime, action, music and sound".
Meanwhile, Vulture spoke with Wright this week about his proposed adaptation of Andrew Smith‘s young adult novel "Grasshopper Jungle".
He revealed that he'd considered the idea, forgot about it, and was reminded about it following a Facebook post in which the film came up.
- 1/13/2015
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Edgar Wright has his next project, Baby Driver, safely in his sights. The movie has been described as a collision of crime, action, music and sound. So your guess is as good as mine when it comes to what we he's doing with that one. Beyond that, he's working on an adaptation of Andrew Smith‘s Ya novel "Grasshopper Jungle" where a teenager accidentally unleashes a plague of hungry, horny, six-foot-tall praying mantises on the world. As you do. The...
- 1/13/2015
- by Graham McMorrow
- JoBlo.com
Edgar Wright is set to make Baby Driver for his next project, but his next film beyond that is an adaptation of Andrew Smith‘s Ya novel Grasshopper Jungle. It’s a doozy of a tale: at the center is a teenager who accidentally unleashes a plague of hungry, horny, six-foot-tall preying mantises on the world. The material […]
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- 1/13/2015
- by Angie Han
- Slash Film
"Willing to answer a few questions?" Vulture asked Edgar Wright on Saturday, in between glasses of Champagne at BAFTA's annual pre–Golden Globes tea party. The director raised an eyebrow. "That depends!" Wright replied, clearly hoping to avoid questions about the forthcoming Ant-Man, which he famously left last year. Instead, though, Vulture wanted to ask about a different insect-related project: Grasshopper Jungle, which Wright recently signed on to direct. How did he come to the project, based on Andrew Smith's acclaimed coming-of-age novel about a teenager whose battle against giant grasshoppers is almost secondary to his blossoming bisexuality?"I'll tell you what, here's what genuinely happened," replied Wright. "On Facebook, somebody whom I don't really know that well said, 'Edgar Wright, you have to make a movie of Grasshopper Jungle.' And then underneath, Matt Tolmach — who had the rights to it — wrote, 'I agree.' And then Andrew Smith said,...
- 1/12/2015
- by Kyle Buchanan
- Vulture
The Cornetto trilogy -- Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz and The World's End -- may be over, but that doesn't mean Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg (and let's hope Nick Frost) are done working together as Pegg tells BBC Music (via Digital Spy), "When we said the trilogy was over, it was because that group of films was over... The next thing we do won't do that, it will just be something else. It will happen. We made three films in ten years and hopefully in the next decade we'll make another three." As for what's next, Pegg added, "Edgar and I were having a conversation the other day about it, and it has a title and everything. We're kind of into a creative cycle now... It will happen when we can do it." Hmmmmm, "when we can do it". That's probably because Wright has a film called Baby Driver...
- 8/19/2014
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
Edgar Wright will direct the sci-fi coming-of-age tale Grasshopper Jungle for Sony Pictures, EW has confirmed. The news follows Wright’s highly publicized departure from Marvel’s Ant-Man.
The film, based on the Ya novel by Andrew Smith, follows a young boy and his friends who cause a genetically engineered plague, unleashing human-size praying mantises, which they must fight. Wright will direct the flick once he wraps Baby Driver for Working Title.
Scott Rosenberg (Beautiful Girls) is writing the script and will produce alongside Matt Tolmach and Nira Park. Deadline first reported the news.
The film, based on the Ya novel by Andrew Smith, follows a young boy and his friends who cause a genetically engineered plague, unleashing human-size praying mantises, which they must fight. Wright will direct the flick once he wraps Baby Driver for Working Title.
Scott Rosenberg (Beautiful Girls) is writing the script and will produce alongside Matt Tolmach and Nira Park. Deadline first reported the news.
- 7/30/2014
- by C. Molly Smith
- EW - Inside Movies
Edgar Wright is busy filling up his slate in the wake of his Ant-Man departure, with Fox having recruited the director to helm their forthcoming young adult adventure, Grasshopper Jungle. Adapted from the novel by Andrew Smith, the film will follow a classic coming of age story with a sci-fi twist, as its teenage hero finds himself battling the twin foes of adolescence and giant bugs. Indeed, there’s more than a little mirroring between the protagonist’s raging hormones, and the Mo of said bugs, who are driven purely by their desire...
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- 7/28/2014
- by George Wales
- TotalFilm
For all of us who wondered about Edgar Wright's film future after his surprising exit from Marvel's Ant-Man back in May, this past week brought us not one but two answers. As our own Ben Umstead reported just last Tuesday, Wright is set to direct Baby Driver for Working Title Films, based on the director's own script. Now Deadline is reporting, straight from San Diego's Comic-Con, that after Baby Driver, Wright is directing for Sony Pictures the film adaptation of Andrew Smith's 2014 book Grasshopper Jungle. Actually, Wright himself already recommended to his 464k Twitter followers to read Smith's acclaimed book. Deadline's report describes Grasshopper Jungle as "Stand by Me meets Attack the Block." And the official book synopsis reads as follows: In the small town of Ealing,...
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- 7/26/2014
- Screen Anarchy
Edgar Wright is set to direct the film adaptation of Andrew Smith Dutton's young adult novel "Grasshopper Jungle" for Sony Pictures.
The story follows an Iowa teen trying to come to grips with his own sexuality as he and his friends cause a deadly genetically engineered plague that unleashes an army of six-foot-tall praying mantises with an insatiable appetite for fighting, food, and fornicating.
Scott Rosenberg ("Beautiful Girls") is adapting the script while Rosenberg, Matt Tolmach and Nira Park will produce. The project will take place after Wright helms "Baby Driver" for Working Title Films which has only been described as a collision of crime, action, music and sound.
Source: Deadline...
The story follows an Iowa teen trying to come to grips with his own sexuality as he and his friends cause a deadly genetically engineered plague that unleashes an army of six-foot-tall praying mantises with an insatiable appetite for fighting, food, and fornicating.
Scott Rosenberg ("Beautiful Girls") is adapting the script while Rosenberg, Matt Tolmach and Nira Park will produce. The project will take place after Wright helms "Baby Driver" for Working Title Films which has only been described as a collision of crime, action, music and sound.
Source: Deadline...
- 7/26/2014
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
While Edgar Wright is set to make the relatively mysterious Baby Driver as his next film, the director has also set up another project to develop as a potential Baby Driver follow-up. Wright has come on board Grasshopper Jungle, which will adapt the Ya novel by Andrew Smith. The book centers on a teenage kid […]
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- 7/25/2014
- by Russ Fischer
- Slash Film
Writer/director Edgar Wright may have pulled out of Marvel’s Ant-Man project, but that doesn’t mean he has any less busy of a schedule. It was recently reported that Wright’s next project would be the mysterious Baby Driver, and now it’s been revealed that he’s been tapped to direct Grasshopper Jungle, an adaptation of a Ya book that follows two friends who accidentally unleash an end-of-the-world army of giant praying mantises.
Deadline reports that Sony has approached Wright to direct Grasshopper Jungle off a script by Scott Rosenberg (Beautiful Girls) that’s based on a book of the same name by author Andrew Smith Dutton. Rosenberg is also producing the project with Matt Tolmach and Nira Park. Though the book, released in February 2014, was written for a Ya audience, it has been perceived as material that’s also accessible to adults, being a creature feature with plenty of emotional substance.
Deadline reports that Sony has approached Wright to direct Grasshopper Jungle off a script by Scott Rosenberg (Beautiful Girls) that’s based on a book of the same name by author Andrew Smith Dutton. Rosenberg is also producing the project with Matt Tolmach and Nira Park. Though the book, released in February 2014, was written for a Ya audience, it has been perceived as material that’s also accessible to adults, being a creature feature with plenty of emotional substance.
- 7/25/2014
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Though director Edgar Wright may have left Marvel's Ant-Man behind, he found another project with an insect title to replace it. Deadline has word that in addition to making Baby Driver his next project at Working Title, he's also been hired by Sony Pictures to direct an adaptation of Andrew Smith's young adult novel Grasshopper Jungle. And the story absolutely sounds like the perfect young adult story for Wright to bring to the big screen as it's a coming-of-age tale with a cool sci-fi twist as it follows a teenager in Iowa dealing with hormones and sexual frustration who suddenly have to deal with an army of giant insects. More specifically, he and his friends have to fight a plague of six-foot tall praying mantises who are described in the official synopsis as hungry and horny. The description of the book also says, "Funny, intense, complex, and brave, Grasshopper Jungle...
- 7/25/2014
- by Ethan Anderton
- firstshowing.net
Edgar Wright isn't letting his “Ant-Man” exit get him down, as he has come on to direct “Grasshopper Jungle” for Sony Pictures, an individual familiar with the project has told TheWrap. Scott Rosenberg is adapting the young adult novel by Andrew Smith, and he's also producing with Matt Tolmach (“The Amazing Spider-Man”). The duo will be joined by Wright's longtime producing partner Nira Park. Also read: Edgar Wright Exits Marvel's ‘Ant-Man’ “Grasshopper Jungle” is a coming-of-age tale about an Iowa teen who, along with his friends, causes a deadly plague that unleashes an army of human-sized praying mantises, whose hedonistic lifestyle is admired.
- 7/25/2014
- by Jeff Sneider
- The Wrap
Former Ant-Man director Edgar Wright has been tapped by Sony to helm Grasshopper Jungle, an adaptation of the Ya novel by Andrew Smith. Wright, who left Marvel's Ant-Man over creative differences in May, will direct Grasshopper Jungle from a script by Scott Rosenberg (Beautiful Girls). Photos Titans of Comic-Con: Stars Re-Create Classic Characters Rosenberg also is producing with Matt Tolmach and Nira Park. Smith's book, which hit shelves in February 2014 via Dutton Children's, follows a teen in Ealing, Iowa, as he and his friends accidentally unleashed an unstoppable army of six-foot-tall praying mantises.
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- 7/25/2014
- by Rebecca Ford
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Marvel, who needs 'em? While exiting "Ant-Man," which he had been developing for years, was likely a hard decision and tough blow for Edgar Wright, he's picked himself up and moved on pretty quickly. Earlier this week it was revealed that the filmmaker's long-gestating "Baby Driver" was on the fast track to be his next film, and now he's lined up yet another gig, one with a different kind of insect connection. Deadline reports that Sony have tapped Wright to helm Andrew Smith's Ya novel "Grasshopper Jungle," which they describe as "Stand By Me" meets "Attack The Block." Scott Rosenberg ("Con Air," "High Fidelity") is penning the script for this unusual coming-of-age tale, and we'll let the Booklist synopsis do the talking: Simmering within Ealing, Iowa, is a deadly genetically engineered plague capable of unleashing unstoppable soldiers—six-foot-tall praying mantises with insatiable appetites for food...
- 7/25/2014
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Exclusive: Sony Pictures is setting Edgar Wright to direct Grasshopper Jungle, the acclaimed Andrew Smith Ya novel that is being adapted by Beautiful Girls scribe Scott Rosenberg. Rosenberg is producing with Amazing Spider-Man‘s Matt Tolmach and they will be joined by Nira Park, who is at the center of all Wright’s films. Wright, you’ll remember, recently squashed his participation in Ant-Man, the Marvel Studios film that has Paul Rudd and Michael Douglas still starring, because he and Marvel clashed over visions for the wannabe franchise. Wright is staying in insect mode, but moved onto a project that suits his sci-fi […]...
- 7/25/2014
- Deadline
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...
- 7/25/2014
- EmpireOnline
It was just a few days ago we told you about Edgar Wright's next film, the crime comedy Baby Driver, and already the former Ant-man director is set to helm another project. He will take on Grasshopper Jungle, an adaptation of the Ya novel of the same name by Andrew Smith. Keeping it in the insect universe you could say, the plot of Grasshopper Jungle definitely sounds like Wright material; it has been described as Stand By Me meets Attack The Block. Scott...
- 7/25/2014
- by Graham McMorrow
- JoBlo.com
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