Summit
Entertainment highly anticipated adaptation of Veronica Roth’s novel Divergent
has begun. The story takes place in a futuristic Chicago, where young people are divided according to their
personalities. Four is one of the liders of the Dauntless (the brave) and the charismatic
intructor of Tris (Shailene Woodley). Tris is what they call a divergent,
someone that doesn't fit within any group (Abnegation, Erudite, Candor, Amity, Dauntless), and when she finds out that there's a conspiracy
to kill all those that are like her it's a race to find out why.
"SUMMIT ENTERTAINMENT STARTS PRODUCTION ON
FUTURISTIC ACTION ADVENTURE DIVERGENT
Santa
Monica, CA – April 8, 2013 – Summit Entertainment, a LIONSGATE® (NYSE: LGF)
company, announced today that principal photography has commenced in Chicago on
the highly anticipated feature film adaptation of DIVERGENT, starring Golden
Globe nominated Shailene Woodley, Theo James, and Academy Award® winner Kate
Winslet. The studio also announced that Ray Stevenson and Mekhi Phifer will
join a stellar young cast including Maggie Q, Jai Courtney, Miles Teller, Zoë
Kravitz, Ansel Elgort, Ben Lloyd-Hughes, Ben Lamb, Christian Madsen, and Amy
Newbold. The futuristic action adventure, based on author Veronica Roth’s New York
Times best seller, will be directed
by Neil Burger from a script by Vanessa Taylor. The original draft of the
script was written by Evan Daugherty. Douglas Wick and Lucy Fisher are
producing the project via their Red Wagon Entertainment banner along with Pouya
Shahbazian. Red Wagon’s Rachel Shane is executive producing, alongside
John J. Kelly. Summit will release the film theatrically in North America
in THE HUNGER GAMES slot on Friday, March 21, 2014.
DIVERGENT is a thrilling adventure
set in a future world where people are divided into distinct factions based on
their personalities, Tris Prior (Woodley) is warned she is Divergent and will
never fit into any one group. When she discovers a conspiracy to destroy all
Divergents, she must find out what makes being Divergent so dangerous before
it’s too late.
The
extremely popular young adult novel Divergent was written by first time author Veronica Roth
and has topped the New
York Times Best Sellers list ever since
being published in May of 2011 by Katherine Tegen Books/HarperCollins
Publishers. The book was written by Roth while she was earning her
undergraduate degree at Northwestern University. She followed her first
novel with the book Insurgent, which has also made its way to the #1 position on
specific New
York Times Best Sellers lists. To
date, book sales are now over 3 million copies for both novels combined, and
both titles are HarperCollins most successful e-books ever in regards to
sales. The studio acquired the film rights to the novel in early 2011
several months before the book Divergent was published.
DIVERGENT marks another strategic
foray for Summit into producing material for young adults, building on Summit
and corporate parent Lionsgate’s leadership in the young-adult genre.
Summit’s TWILIGHT SAGA franchise has grossed more than $3.3 billion at the
worldwide box office, and the first film of Lionsgate’s THE HUNGER GAMES
franchise is the 13th highest-grossing North American release of all time.
Erik Feig, Lionsgate Motion Picture
Group’s President of Production, and Gillian Bohrer, Lionsgate’s SVP of
Production, are overseeing the project for the studio.
To stay
connected with all updates related to the film, follow the official DIVERGENT
Twitter handle (www.twitter.com/Divergent) and like the movie’s Facebook page (www.facebook.com/ DivergentMovie)."
Divergent is directed by Neil Burger and starred by Shailene Woodley, Ray Stevenson, Aaron Eckhart, Kate Winslet, Theo James, Jai Courtney,Maggie Q and Zoë Kravitz.
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