The Weinstein
Company has released a new behind the scenes look at director Philip Noyce's (Salt)
adaptation of Lois Lowry novel The Giver, which takes place in a utopian
society where all memories of the past reside within a sage figure known as The
Giver. In the film Jeff Bridges plays the current Giver and Brenton Thwaites
plays a young boy who has been selected to be next Giver.
The film also
stars Meryl Streep in her very first science fiction movie, Alexander
Skarsgard, Katie Holmes Cameron Monaghan and Taylor Swift.
The Giver opens on
August 15th.
The Giver Official
Synopsis:
The haunting story
of THE GIVER centers on Jonas, who lives in a seemingly ideal, if colorless,
world of conformity and contentment. Not until he is given his life assignment
as the Receiver of Memory does he begin to understand the dark, complex secrets
behind his fragile community. The film is based on Lois Lowry’s beloved young
adult novel of the same name, which was the winner the 1994 Newbury Medal and
has sold over 10 million copies worldwide.
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