Grasshopper Jungle

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Sony Pictures Takes Grasshopper Jungle



Sony Pictures has acquired the big screen rights to the recently-released Andrew Smith novel, Grasshopper Jungle. Published just last month, the book is officially described as follows:

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.

This is the truth. This is history.

It�s the end of the world. And nobody knows anything about it.

You know what I mean.

Funny, intense, complex, and brave, Grasshopper Jungle brilliantly weaves together everything from testicle-dissolving genetically modified corn to the struggles of recession-era, small-town America in this groundbreaking coming-of-age stunner.

Scott Rosenberg (Con Air, High Fidelity) is in talks to adapt the screenplay with Matt Tolmach producing.

 

[Schlosser85]

This is gonna be a hard thing to adapt.

 

[enterthemadness]

This is gonna be a hard thing to adapt.

Those bugs scare me. They really do, I'm gonna need therapy one day and even then it won't do any good. But....how can this movie be PG-13? The book is a Young Adult book, right? Yes. But gee um....don't those bugs bite the head off or cut it off. Ew, ew, ew, eeeeeeeeeeeeeew, this is gonna be like PG-13 Highlander movie with teens and bugs. Heads will ****ing roll.


add quickening lightning effects!

 

[gwynplaine]

Paging Paul Verhoeven. He has experience with both sex (Turkish Delight, Basic Instinct) and giant bugs (Starship Troopers.) t:

 

[DarkSovereignty]

You forgot his masterpiece.

 

[gwynplaine]

Showgirls?t:

 

[DarkSovereignty]

You know it.

 

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Edgar Wright To Direct "Grasshopper Jungle"

By Garth Franklin Friday July 25th 2014 07:46PM
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

 

[DarkSovereignty]

I look forward to seeing it in 2022.

 

[DaddlerTheDalek]

Sony Pictures Takes Grasshopper Jungle



Sony Pictures has acquired the big screen rights to the recently-released Andrew Smith novel, Grasshopper Jungle. Published just last month, the book is officially described as follows:

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.

This is the truth. This is history.

It�s the end of the world. And nobody knows anything about it.

You know what I mean.

Funny, intense, complex, and brave, Grasshopper Jungle brilliantly weaves together everything from testicle-dissolving genetically modified corn to the struggles of recession-era, small-town America in this groundbreaking coming-of-age stunner.

Scott Rosenberg (Con Air, High Fidelity) is in talks to adapt the screenplay with Matt Tolmach producing.

Now this sounds kind of... weird.

 

[Airwings]

My prediction is that Austin being bisexual won't be a part of the film. In one way or another, they will manage to get rid of it and make the plot less complicated, more straight forward. Only Robby will remain gay and Austin's feelings will be directed towards his girlfriend, no-one else.