In a couple of weeks, British filmmaker Edgar Wright will release his fifth theatrical directing effort, the action-packed heist movie Baby Driver, which stars Ansel Elgort, Lily James, Jamie Foxx, Kevin Spacey and many more. The early word is good, but thoughts are already turning towards what Wright will do next. For the past couple of years, the director has been attached to a variety of projects, including an adaptation of the young adult novel Grasshopper Jungle, where six-foot preying mantises take over a small town. More on Edgar Wright’s next movie below.
Edgar Wright’s next movie could be an adaptation of Grasshopper’s Jungle
What will be Edgar Wright’s next movie?
U.S. website Collider caught up with him on the American junket tour for Baby Driver where he was asked what he would indeed tackle next. Will it be the aforementioned adaptation?
“Potentially. It’s one of a couple of things that I’m developing. It’s a book that I really enjoyed and there’s a good screenplay and stuff. The exact next thing I don’t have entirely worked out, but that is one of the things in the mix, yeah. The book was really good, really interesting way of doing a coming-of-age movie and I thought it was really progressive as well.”
The story is based around the sexual awakening of a young man in that small town. Amazon has the official synopsis from the source material:
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.
Wright was also attached to a project called Shadows, a Dreamworks animated movie that he collaborated with David Walliams to write the screenplay for. Could that go next?
“Well I wrote three drafts of that, but because of the whole regime change there, most of the people that hired me and David Walliams to do it don’t work there anymore. So at the moment, that’s not something that I’m necessarily attached to I think. It’s something that’s TBD.”
You can read the full interview at the end of the link above. Baby Driver opens on June 28th, and we’ll have a full review for you nearer release.
More on Edgar Wright’s next movie as we hear more.
