Burger Diverges To "Divergent"

Having now dropped out of calling action on the big-budget video game series adaptation "Uncharted: Drake's Fortune", "Limitless" and "The Illusionist" helmer Neil Burger has started early talks to direct the sci-fi and potential franchise launcher "Divergent" says Variety.

Author Veronica Roth's young adult novel 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.

The second novel in the Trilogy was released in May.The last book will hit next year.

Snow White And The Huntsman screenwriter Evan Daugherty wrote the adapted script.

Pouya Shabazian, Lucy Fisher and Douglas Wick will produce.