Earlier today the trailer for The Giver dropped. Unfortunately and somewhat surprisingly, the Hollywood adaptation of Lois Lowry's book is in color! This is NOT Giver canon. But don't worry — the internet has fixed that for you. In the novel, the
Earlier today the trailer for The Giver dropped. Unfortunately and somewhat surprisingly, the Hollywood adaptation of Lois Lowry's book is in color! This is NOT Giver canon. But don't worry — the internet has fixed that for you.
Releasing a film adaptation of The Giver in 2014 was always going to be tricky. Why? Because Lois Lowry's kid-lit classic, first published in 1993, helped to invent the tropes of dystopian young adult fiction.
"The way things look and the way things are are very different," Jeff Bridges, who plays The Giver, says to Brenton Thwaites, who's been chosen to be his society's Receiver of Memories. Bridges is later shown sharing those memories with Thwaites
Releasing a film adaptation of The Giver in 2014 was always going to be tricky. Why? Because Lois Lowry's kid-lit classic, first published in 1993, helped to invent the tropes of dystopian young adult fiction.