We open on a world in concrete gray. There is a powerful government, a post-apocalyptic class system with a telling name, and an unremarkable teenager ready to start a worldwide revolution. Does this sound familiar? That’s because it is the basis of most of the popular dystopian franchises for young adults, including Uglya series of […]
SPOILER ALERT: This post contains spoilers for the film Ugly. Scott Westerfeld’s Ugly has finally made it to the big screen. After its publication in 2005, the first of the author’s four novels gained a wide readership as a precursor to YA dystopian stories such as The Hunger Games, Divergent, Maze Runner – The Chosen […]
There were many, many It took years, but the film adaptation of Scott Westerfeld’s “Uglies” is finally here. The story, directed by McG, revolves around a society where every person at the age of 16 undergoes surgery to make them perfect. Perfect looks, perfect personality traits, whatever. Until they turn 16, they are known as […]
There were many, many It took years, but the film adaptation of Scott Westerfeld’s “Uglies” is finally here. The story, directed by McG, revolves around a society where every person at the age of 16 undergoes surgery to make them perfect. Perfect looks, perfect personality traits, whatever. Until they turn 16, they are known as […]
SPOILER ALERT: This post contains spoilers for Ugly on Netflix. Ugly Star and producer Joey King was first seen on Scott Westerfeld’s Ugly book series when she was 11 years old, and now, more than 10 years later, her proposal to make a film adaptation of the first book will bring the result to Netflix. […]
Author Scott Westerfeld never believed that his 2005 novel “Uglies” would be made into a film for one simple reason: “There is no one in Hollywood who wants to make a film about ugly people.” Still, he had a message for his book’s young fans hoping to one day see Tally Youngblood’s coming-of-age story on […]
A brave young woman fights against a repressive society in a dystopian future while honing her archery skills. No, that’s not it The Hunger Gamesbut Netflix’s latest sci-fi young adult novel, based on the 2005 bestselling novel by Scott Westerfield, which spawned several sequels. Joey King plays the lead role in this film adaptation directed […]
I think it’s fair to say that film critics everywhere owe the young adult fiction genre an apology. Movies about teenagers in sci-fi and fantasy scenarios radicalizing, organizing, and destroying dystopian empires may be a little cheesy and repetitive, but looking back, decades of telling young people that it’s their responsibility to be politically active […]
