Edgar Wright is set to direct an adaptation of the Andrew Smith Dutton young adult novel Grasshopper Jungle.

Edgar Wright is wasting no time in moving on from his much discussed departure from Marvel’s Ant-Man.

On Tuesday Wright picked his next film: Baby Driver. The film was described as being “a collision of crime, action, music and sound,” and would close out his two picture deal with Working Title Films, the prior being his 2012 picture The World’s End, the third film in his Cornetto trilogy.

Today Deadline is reporting that Wright is set to direct Grasshopper Jungle, an adaptation of the acclaimed young adult novel by Andrew Dutton Smith.

Interestingly, the Grasshopper Jungle script is being adapted by Beautiful Girls scribe Scott Rosenberg. Assuming that Wright doesn’t do rewrites, this would be the first time he’s ever directed a script that’s not at least partially his own. Wright of course left Ant-Man because of this very thing. Rosenberg hasn’t written a screenplay since Kangaroo Jack, so we have a feeling that Wright will wind up doing rewrites of his own.

Grasshopper Jungle has been described as Stand By Me meets Attack the Block, and we can’t think of anything that would more up Wright’s alley.

Here’s the description of the book, from Amazon:

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.

Giant horny hungry praying mantises? Yes, that does sound very much like Wright indeed.

It’s ironic that one of Wright’s first post Ant-Man projects still deals with insects. Though likely not directly intended, this will have to be a slight slap in the face to Marvel.

Wright tweeted about the book without officially confirming the news:

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