Divergent Set for Release in March 2014

Divergent Set for Release in March 2014

Divergent heads to theaters March 21, 2014

Continuing its expertise in turning young adult novel franchises into compelling feature films, Summit Entertainment announced today that its highly anticipated filmed adaptation of the novel Divergent will be released theatrically in North America on Friday, March 21, 2014. 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 $2.5 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.

The extremely popular young adult novel Divergent was written by first time author 23-year-old 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, both novels have sold nearly 1.5 million copies outpacing sales of The Twilight Saga novels at the same point in their literary lifespans.

The screenplay for the film is being written by Evan Daugherty with a filmmaker soon to be announced. The studio acquired the film rights to the novel in early 2011 several months before the book Divergent was published.

Divergent is a thrilling adventure centered around the monumental choice of deciding who you are and discovering who you can be. Set in a future where America is divided into five ideological factions to stabilize society and uphold peace, every citizen must choose a permanent faction at age 16 - either their own or another. Struggling to survive her initiation into the most aggressive and physically demanding of the factions, Beatrice Prior must uncover her true hidden strengths and risk her family, her new found love, and her very own life to defuse a mysterious conspiracy which could change the balance of power forever.

Divergent comes to theaters March 21st, 2014 and stars Shailene Woodley, Maggie Q, Zoë Kravitz, Ansel Elgort, Jai Courtney, Theo James, Kate Winslet, Ben Lloyd-Hughes. The film is directed by Neil Burger.

Sources: Summit Entertainment

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THE JOKER
@skywise Yeah... Gallagher is usually really good at that! haha
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skywise
@mcleve02 I give thumbs up because it was a well put together little article.
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Rodney Roover
is it just me or does this look like hunger games? no thanks
9 months agoby @Rodney-Roover Flag
THE JOKER
@skywise Still giving it a thumbs up though haha
9 months agoby @mcleve02 Flag
skywise
sounds pretty lame.
9 months agoby @skywise Flag
THE JOKER
Sounds like a darker plot of the Hunger Games to me... still sounds cool enough!
9 months agoby @mcleve02 Flag