4 Ways "The Giver" Turns A Beloved Novel Into Just Another Dystopian Teen Movie — buzzfeed.com

Author Lois Lowry has been very supportive of the movie adaptation of her Newbery Medal-winning book The Giver, which hits theaters this week, complimenting how screenwriters Michael Mitnick and Robert B. Weide and director Phillip Noyce (Salt) “have taken [her] work and expanded it, brought it to a new level.” The level the filmmakers are aspiring to is clearly the one occupied by recent hits Divergent and The Hunger Games, with which Lowry’s story has a lot in common. Like them, The Giver is set in a dystopian future in which its hero/heroine comes of age and attempts to topple the oppressive system, and it kicks off a loose series of books set in the same world, all ripe to be brought to the screen should the first one work out.

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