![]() ![]() Director Phillip Noyce has since told the Huffington Post that releasing a teaser trailer in color was a mistake: “It was an error. Yet the first trailer for the film adaptation boasted a broad spectrum, leading to complaints among readers expecting a black-and-white setting. Lowry’s novel is set in a world in which the human race can no longer see color. Lowry published three additional books, forming a quartet: Gathering Blue (2000), Messenger (2004), and Son (2012). ![]() Since its publication two decades ago, The Giver has been translated into more than 30 languages and has sold 11 million copies worldwide. But The Giver – a dystopian tale being released at a time when the mania for dystopia may be subsiding – may have an appeal that other screen adaptations don’t: it has the potential to draw an adult audience nostalgic for a longtime favorite. The film, a release from Walden Media and the Weinstein Company, opens on August 15 and stars Brenton Thwaites as Jonas, Jeff Bridges as the Giver, and Meryl Streep as the Chief Elder.Īs movies like John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars and Gayle Forman’s If I Stay hit theaters this summer, to be followed by Rainbow Rowell’s Eleanor & Park (filming begins in 2015), signs point to a cinematic shift away from dystopia to more realistic stories being adapted for film. The Giver (HMH, 1993), Lois Lowry’s Newbery Medal-winning novel, centers on 12-year-old Jonas, who, according to the customs of his society, receives a life assignment to become the Receiver of Memory – the person who holds his civilization’s collective recollections from before the world converted to “Sameness.” Lowry’s story, which raises questions about what it means to live fully and freely, is now joining the legion of YA film adaptations. Long before Katniss Everdeen entered the arena, a dystopian story of a more subdued nature introduced readers to an orderly world without complexity, complication, or pain.
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