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Summit Sets Release Date for Film Adaptation of 'Divergent'


Summit Entertainment has set March 21, 2014, as the release date for its film adaptation of the young adult novel Divergent.

Written by Veronica Roth and published by Katherine Tegen Books/HarperCollins Publishers in May 2011, the novel tells the future-set tale of a 16-year-old girl who must decide to join one of five ideological factions that control society.

Evan Daugherty is currently writing the screenplay. Doug Wick and Lucy Fisher will produce via their Red Wagon Entertainment banner along with Pouya Shahbazian. No director has been set yet.

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wheezy_wazlib 13th-Sep-2012 01:08 pm (UTC)
This book was awful and the sequel was even worse
virgo7598 13th-Sep-2012 01:09 pm (UTC)
My friend keeps urging me to read this book but idk I've heard some sketchy reviews from people.


Should I read it ONTD?

Edited at 2012-09-13 01:09 pm (UTC)
dravvie 13th-Sep-2012 01:10 pm (UTC)
The first book was okay, but then pretend the sequel never happened.

Edit: Or just skip to the last 20 pages of the sequel for the pay out rather then the heroine of the book becoming a whiney crybaby who rehashes the first book OVER AND OVER and is super in love with a dude.

Edited at 2012-09-13 01:11 pm (UTC)
sereniti_ii 13th-Sep-2012 01:16 pm (UTC)
THIS. oh and I think her brother dies. He's an asshole.
xdecadentx 13th-Sep-2012 01:37 pm (UTC)
I keep hearing this, I might just forget reading Insurgent altogether.
wheezy_wazlib 13th-Sep-2012 01:11 pm (UTC)
You'd be better off reading something else, imo
ourferocity 13th-Sep-2012 01:11 pm (UTC)
Sure, why not? Worth a shot.
tobesurrounded 13th-Sep-2012 01:14 pm (UTC)
no you shouldn't. the writing is bad, the characters and story lines are completely forgettable, and it's trying so hard to be the next Hunger Games meets twilight. it's pretty obvious the writer is a college student imo.
lostpoisoned 13th-Sep-2012 01:22 pm (UTC)
First book is good in my opinion. In the second one though, it's like they changed all the characters you fell in love with in the first book.
lady_iriska 13th-Sep-2012 01:35 pm (UTC)
I couldn't warm up to the main character and her actions made no sense to me.
milkradio 13th-Sep-2012 01:50 pm (UTC)
I only read the first one, but nah.
dirrtypony 13th-Sep-2012 01:54 pm (UTC)
i thought the concept was interesting. but blah to the romance
ladyserenity84 13th-Sep-2012 02:09 pm (UTC)
Try the first one and see what you think. I thought the first was okay, decent in pacing and action, though not very thorough on the worldbuilding. Second one really wasn't worth it, though, tbh.
shining_starsxx 13th-Sep-2012 02:51 pm (UTC)
Nah. I didn't finish the book and could muster up enough fucks to finish the book.
hello_ilu 13th-Sep-2012 04:42 pm (UTC)
I read the first one but I'll read any dystopia with a world that looks halfway interesting. The world was interesting as a concept but not done super well, and I didn't really give a fuck about most of the characters.
thgreatrakshana 17th-Sep-2012 09:57 pm (UTC)
The sequel is terrible. The first book is really fun but the world building falls apart.
tobesurrounded 13th-Sep-2012 01:13 pm (UTC)
this book was awful and immature. nhf the flop world building and wannabe "epic" romance.

oh well. as long as Shatter Me never gets a movie adaption I'm good.
lizzyhaldane 13th-Sep-2012 01:13 pm (UTC)
that cover art looks JUST like a mockingjay pin wtf
coldestwinterx 13th-Sep-2012 01:15 pm (UTC)
it really does!

i guess we should be glad it's not another girl in a ballgown cover but then again i'd prefer that over this
squirrels_oh_no 13th-Sep-2012 01:47 pm (UTC)
I always prefer to think the Eye of Sauron.
xdecadentx 13th-Sep-2012 01:48 pm (UTC)
They remind me of the Sabriel cover in the UK

kidblinks 13th-Sep-2012 02:53 pm (UTC)
God I love the Abhorsen trilogy. Can't wait for the two new books in the same universe.
affliction 13th-Sep-2012 01:13 pm (UTC)
wtf is that fiery thing on the cover supposed to be? a fiery eye in the scoop part of a ladle?!
coldestwinterx 13th-Sep-2012 01:14 pm (UTC)
not this one tooooooooo! it was so boring and anyway the 16 year old girl ends up dating her early 20-somethingish teacher. statutory rape? hello??
tobesurrounded 13th-Sep-2012 01:16 pm (UTC)
well i agree that it was boring, but i'm fairly sure the dude she was dating was 18.
coldestwinterx 13th-Sep-2012 01:20 pm (UTC)
i swearrr he (four/tobias) was 21-22. but i've blocked most of that shitty book from my mind though.

wow, if he's only 18 that makes it even more stupid. how did he become an instructor after barely stopping being an initiate only 2 years ago?
sereniti_ii 13th-Sep-2012 01:19 pm (UTC)
Here we go.
Yay, Summit. Adapt all the shitty novels.

Who wants to bet that the final book is called Resurgent?


Edited at 2012-09-13 01:22 pm (UTC)
squirrels_oh_no 13th-Sep-2012 01:45 pm (UTC)
My bet was Convergent.
sereniti_ii 13th-Sep-2012 01:51 pm (UTC)
That's also a possibility.
Her "-ergent" thing is really tiring, tbh.

Edited at 2012-09-13 01:53 pm (UTC)
xdecadentx 13th-Sep-2012 01:51 pm (UTC)
Yeah I think this is more likely.
la_sikka 13th-Sep-2012 02:28 pm (UTC)
I'm betting it's Detergent.
improved 13th-Sep-2012 02:54 pm (UTC)
My guess is Emergent.
starlysh 13th-Sep-2012 01:23 pm (UTC)
NGL, I'll probably see this because I read the books. The second one sucked though.
pseudo_nom 13th-Sep-2012 01:31 pm (UTC)
I read the first one and i was...ok-ish and I dl'ed the second one but I'm debating on reading it.
lady_iriska 13th-Sep-2012 01:37 pm (UTC)
I didn't love the 1st book as much as everyone else it seemed, and then I kept hearing how the 2nd one is worse, yet I enjoyed the sequel more. Maybe because I wasn't so in love with the 1st one?
therealcharlie 13th-Sep-2012 01:33 pm (UTC)
Keep hearing mixed opinions on this, but I kinda wanna read the first one which is apparently miles better than the sequel.

Also, add me on Goodreads please! I love seeing what books are good to read (especially YA ones!)

http://www.goodreads.com/therealcharlie
xdecadentx 13th-Sep-2012 01:36 pm (UTC)
I added you

http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/3463694-zeeba

It's not bad, it wasn't great.
dirrtypony 13th-Sep-2012 01:58 pm (UTC)
is it? every time i read the summary im always like meh
xdecadentx 13th-Sep-2012 01:35 pm (UTC)
LBR in the wake of The Hunger Games, this is just going to be seen as a copy.

I didn't hate this book, but I think the world building is really bad and you spend a lot of time waiting for something to happen.
kris_terror 13th-Sep-2012 03:34 pm (UTC)
Seriously, the world literally makes no sense. Like, it is impossible for me to suspend my disbelief enough to accept that society has somehow broken down this way.
notoriousreign 13th-Sep-2012 07:05 pm (UTC)
Mte to all of that.
artemis_archer 13th-Sep-2012 01:37 pm (UTC)
I wasn't too impressed with Divergent. It felt like everything came way too easy for the protagonist and I hate when an author tells you what a character is like instead of showing you (like when she talks about her sarcasm not being accepted yet we haven't even heard her say anything sarcastic). Also the love story read like a bad fanfic, that scene when he was drunk ugh, so pointless. Kind of a cool premise but a weak execution imo. Idk if I want to bother reading the sequel.
xdecadentx 13th-Sep-2012 01:40 pm (UTC)
One thing I think it had going for it on a YA level is there's no love triangle (yet).
artemis_archer 13th-Sep-2012 01:43 pm (UTC)
True, I did like that there wasn't one, I just thought what they did have in the way of romance was rather lame.
sereniti_ii 13th-Sep-2012 01:56 pm (UTC)
She did manage to get sexual assault in, though. So bonus points on the shitty scale for that, especially since it wasn't dealt with properly.
lady_iriska 13th-Sep-2012 01:40 pm (UTC)
Yes, it was very much I'm telling you how awesome she is, not actually showing anything awesome.

And I hated the whole we have so much courage to do all those stupid dangerous things just for the sake of them being dangerous.
12dozenroses 13th-Sep-2012 03:10 pm (UTC)
I hate when an author tells you what a character is like instead of showing you

ia, one of my pet peeves.

I also knew a guy like this in real life, who would talk about how he was to your face but then never actually behave that way. I met him at a party and was already trashed so I yelled at him about it and he stfu but still looked smug. Stupid asshole.
squirrels_oh_no 13th-Sep-2012 01:46 pm (UTC)
Nooo, an early YA post! Now I'll miss it nevertheless.
sereniti_ii 13th-Sep-2012 01:59 pm (UTC)
Stay, your comments are almost always insightful/hilarious.
imnotasquirrel 13th-Sep-2012 01:46 pm (UTC)
one flop ya movie series at a time, plz

the mortal instruments hasn't even come out yet

notoriousreign 13th-Sep-2012 07:17 pm (UTC)
lol mte
squirrels_oh_no 13th-Sep-2012 01:48 pm (UTC)
I don't get how Summit plans on passing off a lesser quality Hunger Games (let's face it - this book was successful based on THG's popularity and a built-in marketing scheme in the form of 'What faction are you?') while they are still releasing Hunger Games movies.

I predict flop, but who knows. I could be wrong. These books are still on the NYT Bestsellers list months after release.
sereniti_ii 13th-Sep-2012 02:00 pm (UTC)
It's like Hunger Games + sorting hat. NHFT
squirrels_oh_no 13th-Sep-2012 02:01 pm (UTC)
It's the Sorting Hat that says "Well, you'd be best in Hufflepuff, but you're free to choose!"

"Fuck Hufflepuff! I WANNA BE IN GRYFFINDOR!"

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