The Chicago Locust Invasion

The Chicago Locust Invasion is an upcoming Syfy Original Movie. It is a remake of the 1957 B-Movie Begining of the End.

Plot
The film opens in 1957 with newspaper photojournalist Hannah Miller accidentally stumbling upon a small town in Illinois which has been inexplicably destroyed. All 150 people in the town are missing, and the evidence indicates they are dead. Incredibly, the local fields are also stripped barren, as if a swarm of locusts had eaten all the crops. Miller suspects that the military is covering something up, and travels to a nearby United States Department of Agriculture experimental farm to learn what creature might have caused the agricultural destruction. She meets Dr. Alan Wainwright, who is experimenting with spraying cereal grains with chemicals tht accelrate their growth rate to end world hunger. Dr. Wainwright reports that there have been a number of mysterious incidents nearby, and that locusts have eaten all the sprayed wheat stored in a nearby grain silo.

The tension in the film rises as reports of gigantic mutant locusts. Dr. Wainwright and Ms. Miller begin to track down the source of the mysterious occurrences, and quickly discover that locusts which ate the grain have grown to the size of Pickup trucks. The monsters have eaten all the crops in the area, and now are seeking human beings as a means of sustenance. It is also clear that they are headed for the city of Chicago. Wainwright and Aimes meet with General Harvey Hanson, Colonel Jason Peter Sturgeon, and Captain Barton to strategize a solution. Machine gun and artillery fire seem ineffective against the creatures, and there are far too many to effectively deal with all at once. The United States Army and Illinois National Guard are called upon to help protect the city. But the monsters quickly invade Chicago, and began to feast on human flesh as well as several buildings.

General Hanson concludes that the only way to destroy the beasts is to use a nuclear weapon and destroy Chicago. However, Dr. Wainwright realizes that the locusts are warm-weather creatures. He concludes that he might be able to lure the locusts into Lake Michigan. There, the cold water will incapacitate them, and they will drown. The lure itself will be a tape recording of the locust mating call. The plan is put into effect, and it works at the last possible moment. The monstrous locusts drown, but Dr. Wainright notes that the Locusts may have gave birth, and there may be a new wave of Giant Locusts some time in the near-future.

The movie cuts 50 years later to the year 2007, where a matainance worker discover a hive of giant Grasshopper eggs after uncouvering a previously unknown tunnel beneath a Subway platform. As one worker goes over to investigate one with a shovel, a Grasshopper larva emerges, and devours him, and the film ends.