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' 'Divergent' Movie Earns $56M in its Weekend Premiere Sequel to Come Out in 2015'. ^ Alyssa Ashley Lucas (March 24, 2014).In December 2018, due to lack of interest from cast members and network executives, plans for a television expansion were eventually cancelled, effectively ending the franchise.
A theatrical release for Ascendant was later cancelled in favor of developing a television film and spinoff series for Starz. Lee Toland Krieger was to replace Schwentke as the director of the film. On February 8, 2016, it was reported that Robert Schwentke, who directed both Insurgent and Allegiant, would not return to direct for the final film. Outstanding Supporting Visual Effects in a Photoreal/Live Action Feature Motion Pictureīroadcast Film Critics Association Award Įxpanded franchise The Divergent Series: Insurgent (2015) Mendelson believed that the film would please the novel's fanbase. Scott Mendelson of Forbes magazine echoed these sentiments, arguing that despite Woodley's excellent performance, 'the generic story reduced a large portion of the mythology to irrelevancy'. He praised lead actors Theo James and Shailene Woodley's performances, judging that they 'add personality and physicality to the limp script they're acting out'. IGN's Matt Patches gave it 5.8 out of 10, citing its similarities to other young adult films and contrived Dauntless plot line. and some terrific character work, but it's given such uneven attention, alternately languished upon and glossed over'. The Playlist's Todd Gilchrist gave it a mixed review saying that it has 'great ideas. like a walking empathy battery, wide-open emotionally, easy to read and enormously appealing', also adding that James is 'incredibly natural onscreen'.
Drew McWeeny at HitFix said, 'it helps that got Woodley and James in the leads. According to Todd Gilchrist of The Playlist, 'Woodley makes for more than uncertain enough of a hero to add detail and meaning to the implosion of this world', adding that 'there's little artifice to her performance, and the mundane honesty of her reactions create a believability that the world would otherwise lack.' Speaking of James's performance, Gilchrist adds that he 'manages the considerable accomplishment of seeming like a real grown-up man' and that he 'makes the character's transformation from hardass to collaborator seem natural, if inevitable'. Peter Debruge of Variety considered it a much better adaptation writing that, ' it shares a fair amount of DNA in common with The Hunger Games, it ranks as far superior'.