{"id":63317,"date":"2014-07-26T12:37:25","date_gmt":"2014-07-26T11:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=63317"},"modified":"2014-07-28T09:22:50","modified_gmt":"2014-07-28T08:22:50","slug":"edgar-wright-will-direct-grasshopper-jungle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/edgar-wright-will-direct-grasshopper-jungle\/","title":{"rendered":"Edgar Wright will direct Grasshopper Jungle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Edgar-Wright.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-63324\" alt=\"Edgar Wright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Edgar-Wright.jpg\" width=\"616\" height=\"411\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Edgar-Wright.jpg 616w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Edgar-Wright-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 616px) 100vw, 616px\"><\/a>Edgar Wright is starting to set up new projects in the wake of leaving <strong><em>Ant-Man<\/em><\/strong>, and it&#x2019;s been announced that he will direct <strong><em>Grasshopper Jungle<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.deadline.com\/2014\/07\/comic-con-edgar-wright-still-in-insect-mode-on-sonys-grasshopper-jungle\/\">Deadline <\/a>reports that Wright will begin work on the YA sci-fi after completing his Working Title action movie <strong><em>Baby Driver<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Grasshopper Jungle<\/em><\/strong> is described as &#x201C;<strong><em>Stand By Me<\/em><\/strong> meets <strong><em>Attack The Block<\/em><\/strong>&#x2026; a coming-of-age story 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, food, and fornicating.&#x201D;<\/p>\n<p>Scott Rosenberg (<strong><em>Con Air<\/em><\/strong>, <strong><em>Things To Do In Denver When You&#x2019;re Dead<\/em><\/strong>) is adapting Andrew Smith&#x2019;s novel.<\/p>\n<p>This sounds quite insane and very promising indeed, and the writer-director pairing of Rosenberg and Wright sounds fantastic to us.<\/p>\n<p><strong>You can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Grasshopper-Jungle-Andrew-Smith\/dp\/1405273410\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1406374639&sr=8-1&keywords=grasshopper+jungle&tag=scifinowmag-21\">buy <em>Grasshopper Jungle<\/em> for &#xA3;5.59 at Amazon.co.uk.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edgar Wright signs on for insane-sounding YA sci-fi Grasshopper Jungle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":63324,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[2615,3],"tags":[1619,3915],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Edgar-Wright.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63317"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}