Comments on: Kate Winslet Joins Young Adult Adaptation ‘Divergent’ Alongside Shailene Woodley

By: mtX

mtX — Sun, 22 May 2016 03:22:33 +0000

To answer the question at the end of the article, there is one major female role other the lead and her friends. I'm talking about "Jeanine Mathews", she is the leader of the Erudite faction, a brilliant and heartless scientist who will… well, "cause problems" throughout the franchise (understatement of the year, since she is the Franchise's main villain). Let's just say that there are conspiracies in place because of Jeanine, and without wanting to spoil, she will be responsible for a lot of people dying. Once I read the news about Kate Winslet being Cast, I immediately thought she would play Jeanine. People are saying she could play the lead's mother, but I think that role is too small for such a High Profile actress.

By: Joe

Joe — Sun, 22 May 2016 03:22:33 +0000

In answer to the question at the end of the article, the mother role is important but pretty small, so probably not Winslet's role. There is a major villain-y female character (the head of the "Erudite" group), Jeanine Matthews, who would be a good fit for Winslet. She has a bigger role in the second book.

By: DG

DG — Sun, 22 May 2016 03:22:33 +0000

Contagion is a tentpole movie?

By: Re

Re — Sun, 22 May 2016 03:22:33 +0000

Let's be real they offered a truck full of money and her daughter may be a fan of the books as she is in that YA bracket. It's got nothing do with quality. Summit offer her beaucoup bucks to give the film some credibility and she gets money and a hopefully successful franchise on her resume for probably not much more than a few weeks work. Do these prestigious names attaching themselves to these types of movies really say anything about the movie quality though? I mean that Beautiful Creatures YA movie coming up has Emma Thompson, Jeremy Irons, Viola Davis and Eileen Atkins and still looks like complete and utter refried CW show crap?

By: Superzoom

Superzoom — Sun, 22 May 2016 03:22:33 +0000

"Snow White & The Huntsman" had a truly awful story and script. Chase, fight, chase, fight, chase, fight does not constitute a story. I hope Vanessa Taylor is throwing out Evan Daughtery's original script and starting fresh. Two rewrites couldn't save "Snow White."

By: Emma

Emma — Sun, 22 May 2016 03:22:33 +0000

@Kris: How so?

By: kris

kris — Sun, 22 May 2016 03:22:33 +0000

she lost her mind,literally.

By: Emma

Emma — Sun, 22 May 2016 03:22:33 +0000

Vanessa Taylor rewrote the screenplay? That's a good sign. Great news for Kate! Tilda Swinton has Chronicles of Narnia, Cate Blanchett has Lord of the Rings, Kate needs a franchise. 🙂 Good career move.