Duffield Pens "Insurgent" Script For Summit

Summit Entertainment has officially begun work on the sequel to their upcoming adaptation of author Veronica Roth's young adult novel is "Divergent" says Deadline.

 

The action is set in a society divided into five factions that each represent a particular virtue: honesty, selflessness, bravery, peacefulness and intelligence. Once a year, sixteen-year-olds must select the faction to which they will devote the rest of their lives. It's then a teenage boy and girl set out to rebel against the system and discover a growing conflict that threatens to unravel this seemingly perfect society.

Shailene Woodley ("The Descendants") will star as 16-year old Beatrice Prior who leaves her group to join a rival faction and falls in love with a young man (Downton Abbey's star Theo James) whose character Tobias "Four" Eaton is her intense instructor and one of the leaders of the Dauntless faction.

Jai Courtney will play Eric who is a leader of the Dauntless faction. Ansel Elgort will play Woodley's twin brother Caleb. Maggie Q will play a tattoo artist who befriends the girl, while Zoe Kravitz plays another of her allies named Christina. Aaron Eckhart would play heroine Beatrice Prior's father, Andrew, Ray Stevenson and Miles Teller who is playing Peter. Kate Winslet plays Jeanine Matthews the intelligent head of the 'Erudite' faction. Ben Lloyd-Hughes will play Will, the friend of Tris who becomes susceptible to the ill-doings of the Erudite faction leadership. Ben Lamb will portray fellow initiate Edward, who learns first-hand just how tough Dauntless initiation can be. Christian Madsen will portray Al who fares much worse in the story. Mekhi Phifer plays Max, a leader of the courageous, train-hopping, base-jumping sect of the the Dauntless faction and one of the men responsible for administering the brutal initiation tests that heroine Tris and other aspiring faction members have to go through. Ashley Judd has been cast in the role of Natalie Prior, the mother of Tris and her brother, Caleb.

Snow White And The Huntsman screenwriter Evan Daugherty wrote the initial adapted script. Vanessa Taylor re-wrote the script.

Pouya Shabazian, Lucy Fisher and Douglas Wick will produce while Rachel Shane is executive producing.

Production is underway in Chicago and is slated for release on March 21, 2014.

Brian Duffield has been hired to to write the adapted script for the sequel "Insurgent".

The second installment continues the journey of Tris (Woodley) as war now looms. Sides will be chosen, secrets will emerge, and Tris will risk everything as she struggles to harness her incredible power.

The final novel in the Trilogy will hit next year.