Lionsgate To Divert THE DIVERGENT SERIES: ASCENDANT To The Small Screen
Signs that YA fandom for the big screen may have capitulated might depend on which examples you’re looking at. That said, if Summit/Lionsgate’s The Divergent Series is your litmus test, then it certainly serves as an interesting conversation starter. The franchise, inspired by the work of acclaimed author Veronica Roth, stars Shailene Woodley and Theo James, focuses on brewing uprising against a totalitarian five-faction leadership with one woman at the center of it all amid her own journey of self-discover. The first two, Divergent (2014) and The Divergent Series: Insurgent (2015), respectively from helmers Neil Burger and Robert Schwentke pulled in a collective total of nearly $570 million dollars marking a steady pace of success for the franchise before box office results dimmed for this years low brow performance of Schwentke’s The Divergent Series: Allegiant. As a result, what was expected to be director Lee Toland’s take for fourth and […]
