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. […]
NOTE: Major spoilers for Netflix’s Uglies follow — turn back now if you don’t want to be spoiled Uglies is streaming now on Netflix and is definitely setting the stage for at least one sequel, if not two (the book series it’s based on is a trilogy, after all). But will it happen? Well, director […]
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 […]
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 […]
