Summit just confirmed our break last week that Kate Winslet is aboard Divergent, the Neil Burger-directed film based on Veronica Roth’s bestselling novel about a futuristic world where people are herded into factions based on their personalities. Shailene Woodley and Theo James are starring, and Jai Courtney, Zoë Kravitz, Ansel Elgort and Maggie Q have already been cast, with Aaron Eckhart, Ray Stevenson and Miles Teller closing deals. Vanessa Taylor and Evan Daugherty wrote the script, and Erik Feig and Gillian Bohrer are overseeing for Lionsgate. Production begins in April in Chicago. Winslet is repped by CAA.
Doug Wick and Lucy Fisher are producing the project via their Red Wagon Entertainment banner along with Pouya Shahbazian. Red Wagon’s Rachel Shane is executive producing. Summit has set at March 21, 2014 release date for Divergent — that’s the slot the studio opened another young-adult novel adaptation, The Hunger Games.


Earlier there was a Deadline story “Scholastic Shares Fall After It Reports Big Drop In ‘Hunger Games’ Sales” and I wonder if the lesson is the young adult demographic is getting fatigued of or bored with these outcast-young-girl-triumphs stories and if it will impact DIVERGENT.
Bombs away….
This sounds like Myers-Briggs: The Movie.
Good for Kate. But still book is ridiculous crap. Even Delirium makes more sense then what happens in Divergent.
But does that Oscar curse exist for real? Year after year some A-List actress wins Oscar in Lead Role and then just disappears. Reese Witherspoon’s career went downhill after she won Oscar. It was basically end of her career as A-List. Natalie Portman just vanished after Oscar as she never existed.
Kate Winslet was everywhere and then just vanished too after her Oscar win. And now she has to take supporting role in some stupid Young Adult movie. I guess she needs money too to support her rich lifestyle. But when was the last time when Kate was in good movie. If that was her break from acting then she should come out and be in good movies once again.