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Lionsgate waves the white flag on the Divergent series
Posted on 7/20/16 at 5:58 pm
Posted on 7/20/16 at 5:58 pm
Unfortunately the franchise isn't quite turning into the Hunger Games success story they were hoping for, so Lionsgate is forgoing releasing the next film in the series (Ascendant) in theaters and instead will turn it into a TV movie. From there they hope to create its own standalone television series.
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Posted on 7/20/16 at 6:00 pm to RollTide1987
Wow. Crazy how many dystopian properties are out there. I guess they kinda had to make the 2nd movie and now they are at a place where they can pull the theatrical plug.
But I have even more news for you! My wife went to college with a girl who writes, you guessed it, a young adult dystopian future series and apparently she has done well with it and its movie rights just got picked up. So get ready for more
But I have even more news for you! My wife went to college with a girl who writes, you guessed it, a young adult dystopian future series and apparently she has done well with it and its movie rights just got picked up. So get ready for more
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Posted on 7/20/16 at 6:01 pm to RollTide1987
Woodley was terrible casting, particularly due to her strangeness.
Posted on 7/20/16 at 6:02 pm to DallasTiger11
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Woodley was terrible casting, particularly due to her strangeness.
Coming off The Descendants she seemed like a good call I guess. I imagine she has done pretty good harm to her career with these movies. Got paid though
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Posted on 7/20/16 at 6:02 pm to Teddy Ruxpin
Thank god. Please let this series die and never return.
Posted on 7/20/16 at 6:32 pm to RollTide1987
Harry Potter, Hunger Games, and Twilight were all incredibly successful. But there seem to be about 10 failed young adult dystopian future movies in the last 10 years. I guess it's worth the cost if you eventually hit on another Hunger Games or Twilight. The primary issue, however, is that every single one of these save Harry Potter is utter, utter crap. The writing is absolutely atrocious, the plotlines ridiculous, and the romance that all of these books revolve around is vomit-inducing.
Posted on 7/20/16 at 6:37 pm to Teddy Ruxpin
This genre is dying out already. Teens have moved onto something else I guess.
Posted on 7/20/16 at 6:41 pm to RollTide1987
That shite is terrible. Hunger games after 1st one was terrible too. Maze runner sucks. They need to stop
This post was edited on 7/20/16 at 6:42 pm
Posted on 7/20/16 at 6:57 pm to Teddy Ruxpin
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I imagine she has done pretty good harm to her career with these movies.
I would think she did that when she was on Secret Life of the American Teenager
Posted on 7/20/16 at 7:35 pm to RollTide1987
The GF made me watch this shite series.
I can't blame Woodley for any of her acting when the plot and more specifically her characters choices are so horribly written.
I can't blame Woodley for any of her acting when the plot and more specifically her characters choices are so horribly written.
Posted on 7/20/16 at 7:55 pm to RollTide1987
Lionsgate is cutting their losses and banking on Power Rangers as the next big franchise. They plan on up to 7 movies in the series.
Posted on 7/20/16 at 8:06 pm to DaBeerz
quote:And it showed also. Twilight was in the same boat. The first Hunger Games and Twilight did amazingly well at the box office. The sequels had big opening weeks and petered out after that. They had very little repeat viewings.
Hunger games after 1st one was terrible too.
Harry Potter and those other movies should not be in the same sentence.
Posted on 7/20/16 at 8:10 pm to RollTide1987
Percy Jackson and Narnia got the hook also I assume.
Posted on 7/20/16 at 8:22 pm to alajones
As an old guy, I always thought it was kind of sad that teenagers were reading all this stuff that suggested such a bleak future. I mean, I grew up with Star Trek, Doctor Who, stuff that showed a bright future. Yeah, you had things like 1984 and Blade Runner, but for the most part it was all about how science will make our lives better in the future. Not a world where attractive teenagers are running around a wasteland.
Posted on 7/20/16 at 9:00 pm to LeonPhelps
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Harry Potter, Hunger Games, and Twilight were all incredibly successful
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10 failed young adult dystopian future
Only one of those named is about a dystopian future, the others are modern/present day fantasy or fantasy/horror.
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Posted on 7/20/16 at 9:11 pm to GEAUXmedic
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Lionsgate is cutting their losses and banking on Power Rangers as the next big franchise. They plan on up to 7 movies in the series.
May be a tad optimistic.
Posted on 7/20/16 at 9:23 pm to DallasTiger11
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Woodley was terrible casting, particularly due to her strangeness.
She fricked it up with that terrible haircut, plain and simple.
Posted on 7/20/16 at 9:27 pm to LeonPhelps
Don't know why you got a downvote Leon. You're right.
I downloaded a free sample of twilight. Holy hell its bad.
I read the Hunger Games books. I have to admit the first book was good. Really good. Second was okay. Third was terrible.
Read the first Divergent. It's bad. Never read anymore.
I downloaded a free sample of twilight. Holy hell its bad.
I read the Hunger Games books. I have to admit the first book was good. Really good. Second was okay. Third was terrible.
Read the first Divergent. It's bad. Never read anymore.
Posted on 7/20/16 at 9:38 pm to alajones
quote:I kind of like the Percy Jackson movies, but I guess they didn't do well enough and Percy had bigger fish to fry.
Percy Jackson and Narnia got the hook also I assume.
Insurgent was a poor man's Hunger Games and Woodley is a poor man's Jennifer Lawrence.
Posted on 7/20/16 at 9:46 pm to blueboy
Woodley also wasn't in good enough shape to make her character believeable.
She's not fat obviously but if you're going to open the third movie with her climbing up the side of a huge arse building then she should at least have some definition in her muscles.
She's not fat obviously but if you're going to open the third movie with her climbing up the side of a huge arse building then she should at least have some definition in her muscles.
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