So this is how you finally make a movie of The Giver after more than 15 years of development hell: By aging up the characters, adding in awesome body-snatching spaceships, and setting the whole thing to a pounding score Jeff Bridges, Meryl Streep, Katie Holmes, Alexander Skarsgård and yes, even Taylor Swift are all in … Read more
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 … Read more
So this is how you finally make a movie of The Giver after more than 15 years of development hell: By aging up the characters, adding in awesome body-snatching spaceships, and setting the whole thing to a pounding score straight out of the Dystopian YA Jeff Bridges, Meryl Streep, Katie Holmes, Alexander Skarsgård and yes, … Read more
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. Jeff Bridges, Meryl Streep, Katie Holmes, Alexander Skarsgård and yes, even Taylor Swift are all in the Hollywood adaptation of … Read more
"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 … Read more