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Yet as soon as the first Divergent movie made money, Lionsgate/Summit announced that Allegiant, the final book in the trilogy, would be split into two, following the money-making template set by Harry Potter, Twilight, and The Hunger Games. The first two movies were medium-sized hits: Divergent took in $288 million worldwide and Insurgent made $297 million - but that box office was nothing compared to The Hunger Games. Zoë Kravitz and Maggie Q were cast as Tris’s friends. Theo James played Four, her love interest Ansel Elgort played Caleb, her brother and sometimes rival and Miles Teller played the villainous Peter. After winning an Independent Spirit Award for The Descendants, and finishing up on ABC Family's unlikely teen pregnancy hit, The Secret Life of the American Teenager, Shailene Woodley was cast as (the ultimately doomed) Tris.

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And though they provide some interesting visual opportunities (trains that run through Chicago without ever stopping, an exciting zip line scene in the first book), the final novel - Allegiant - revealed that Roth had no real vision to conclude the story.Īnd worst of all, in Allegiant, Roth kills her lead character, Tris, in a nonsensical, anticlimactic moment that infuriated fans.Ĭasting for the movie began in earnest in fall 2012. The novels are confusing, humorless, and derivative. As the three books go on, there are different villains in each, with no obvious goal for our heroes to achieve. Its muddled plot is set in postapocalyptic Chicago, where everyone over 16 is divided into five personality-based factions in order to prevent society from falling into the destructive chaos that led to the end of the United States. In Twilight, Edward and Bella need to be 2gether4ever and, along the way, defeat the elitist Volturi vampire coven. In Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games, for example, it's obvious from the start that Katniss is the revolutionary figure who will end the Hunger Games, destroy the repressive state of Panem, and help bring about a more equitable world. That made Divergent different from the YA books that have worked as movies. The structure of Divergent's fictional world was hard to understand, the plots were hard to follow, and the stakes were unclear.

One possible reason for its collapse is the weakness of the source material. What's more frustrating for its tens of fans, the story ended on a cliffhanger.ĭuring the post– Harry Potter boom, there were a number of YA book-to-film adaptations that fizzled at the box office, resulting in either one movie ( The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones, Beautiful Creatures) or two movies ( Percy Jackson).īut there has been nothing quite like the spectacular flameout of Divergent. Now, a spokesperson for Starz, which is owned by Lionsgate, tells BuzzFeed News that a continuation of the franchise is no longer in active development. Lionsgate even increased Divergent's budget, from $40 million to $85 million. The combined studio would be betting on Divergent as its next book-to-screen success, and it seemed like a slam dunk. The next year, when Summit itself was bought by Lionsgate, that meant that The Hunger Games studio had bought the Twilight studio, merging the two companies that had led the YA boom. Summit Entertainment bought the rights in 2011 when the studio was nearing the end of its streak with the multibillion-dollar Twilight movies. The Divergent movies - based on Veronica Roth's trilogy - were supposed to be the next blockbuster young adult franchise. But as of now, it's safe to say that Divergent is as dead as it gets. In this world of remakes and reboots, it may be that nothing is actually dead forever.

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