On December 16, 2013, it was announced that Neil Burger, director of Divergent, would not return to direct Insurgent as he was still working on the first film. In December 2013, Summit Entertainment announced that a film adaptation of Insurgent, the second novel in the Divergent trilogy, would be released as The Divergent Series: Insurgent on March 20, 2015, as a sequel to the film adaptation of Divergent with Brian Duffield originally chosen to write the script for the film.
production) and the budget (at $80) is more manageable." Analyst Ben Mogil said, " Divergent is more similar to Hunger Games in that the company owns the underlying economics (i.e. Initially, the budget of the film was $40 million but later Lionsgate increased it to $80 million (which finally changed to $85 million) due to the success of The Hunger Games. I was really impressed by how closely it stuck to the general plotline of the book."
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So there's a world that really has to be built out for the big screen… the movie is going to do it a little more efficiently." Author Veronica Roth said about the script of the film: "Reading a script is a really interesting experience. Not only do you have to establish five factions, but you have to acknowledge that there's a sixth entity, which is the divergent, and you also have the factionless. So, distilling that into a cool, faithful two-hour movie is challenging. There will be plenty of sexual tension and chemistry, but it's important that all of that stuff doesn't just feel like it's thrown in, but that it all helps Tris grow as a character." ĭaugherty further added, "It's tricky because the book is a very packed read with a lot of big ideas. It's inherently and inextricably linked to Tris' character journey. Evan Daugherty, who co-wrote the screenplay with Vanessa Taylor, said, "I get hung up on the toughness of the movie but of equal importance is the love story between Tris and Four. Neil Burger was announced as the director on August 23, 2012. In March 2011, Summit Entertainment picked up the rights for Divergent with Douglas Wick and Lucy Fisher's production company Red Wagon Entertainment, while Lionsgate distributes the franchise.
The first film in the series was directed by Neil Burger, while the second and third films were directed by Robert Schwentke. Kate Winslet played the main antagonist in the first two films. The supporting cast includes Ansel Elgort, Zoë Kravitz, and Miles Teller.
The series stars Shailene Woodley and Theo James as lead characters Beatrice Prior (Tris) and Tobias Eaton (Four), respectively. They have been produced by Lucy Fisher, Pouya Shabazian, and Douglas Wick. Distributed by Summit Entertainment and Lionsgate Films, the series consists of three science fiction action films set in a dystopian society: Divergent, Insurgent, and Allegiant. The Divergent Series is a feature film trilogy based on the Divergent novels by the American author Veronica Roth.