As Nick Franco noted earlier this week
,
Divergent,
Neil Burger’s $80 million adaptation of the first novel in Veronica Roth’s best selling dystopian trilogy, comes at a crucial, make-it-or-break-it time for the young adult adaptation genre.
The Twilight Saga
and its endless string of hypnotically tiring stares shot in extreme close up are long gone,
the juggernaut
Hunger Games
and its fearless, emotionally complex protagonist are half over, and the rest –
Beautiful Creatures, The Host, Mortal Instruments: The City of Bones, Vampire Academy
– have all failed miserably trying to combine the burning passion of the former with the strong-willed independence of the later. Fortunately,
Divergent
is way better than the recent rut of young adult adaptations, but I’m not so sure its moderate success will be enough to save the dying genre. It’s a semi-entertaining lifeline but hardly the anchor this genre needs now that
The Hunger…
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