Things are moving quickly for the Divergent production when it comes to getting it onto the big screen. Following the success with other young adult books, Lionsgate picked up the rights to the Divergent books recently and is now setting an official March 21st, 2014 release date for it, which fits in to their model for how they handled Hunger Games. The feature so far looks like good counterprogramming to what else has been slotted by other studios for that date such as Noah and Me and My Shadow.
Plot Concept: In Beatrice Prior’s dystopian Chicago world, society is divided into five factions, each dedicated to the cultivation of a particular virtue—Candor (the honest), Abnegation (the selfless), Dauntless (the brave), Amity (the peaceful), and Erudite (the intelligent). On an appointed day of every year, all sixteen-year-olds must select the faction to which they will devote the rest of their lives.
For Beatrice, the decision is between staying with her family and being who she really is—she can’t have both. So she makes a choice that surprises everyone, including herself.During the highly competitive initiation that follows, Beatrice renames herself Tris and struggles alongside her fellow initiates to live out the choice they have made. Together they must undergo extreme physical tests of endurance and intense psychological simulations, some with devastating consequences. As initiation transforms them all, Tris must determine who her friends really are—and where, exactly, a romance with a sometimes fascinating, sometimes exasperating boy fits into the life she’s chosen. But Tris also has a secret, one she’s kept hidden from everyone because she’s been warned it can mean death. And as she discovers unrest and growing conflict that threaten to unravel her seemingly perfect society, she also learns that her secret might help her save those she loves . . . or it might destroy her.
Chris has been writing about anime, manga, movies and comics for well on twenty years now. He began AnimeOnDVD.com back in 1998 and has covered nearly every anime release that’s come out in the US ever since.
Things are moving quickly for the Divergent production when it comes to getting it onto the big screen. Following the success with other young adult books, Lionsgate picked up the rights to the Divergent books recently and is now setting an official March 21st, 2014 release date for it, which fits in to their model for how they handled Hunger Games. The feature so far looks like good counterprogramming to what else has been slotted by other studios for that date such as Noah and Me and My Shadow.
