![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() At least black and white is always a trendy color combination.īrenton Thwaites ("Oculus," "Maleficent") plays Jonas – aged up four years from the novel, from 12 to 16 – an anxious young lad in a rule-bound, colorless future utopia, located on a plateau surrounded by clouds. ![]() I guess that’s one of the side effects of showing up late to the party, wearing a dress that it’s been saving for just the right moment for so long that it’s gone from original and chic to overdone and cliché. The closest Bridges’ original hopes and dreams for the book came to finding on-screen life was a family-made home video, apparently tucked away in a garage somewhere.Ībout 20 years later, Bridges has finally gotten "The Giver" to the big screen, and for a project with years of passion clearly behind it, the final result is bafflingly inert, as though the film itself has been sampling the characters’ daily emotional sedation. The letters "YA" didn’t automatically summon cartoon dollar signs to studio execs’ eyes like they do today, however, so plans for a movie went nowhere. In 1993 – a time long before Katniss and Tris would’ve even been considered actual words, much less legitimate human names – author Lois Lowry published "The Giver." The dystopian novel went on to win the 1994 Newberry Award and would soon become a middle school literature class staple.Īround the same time, Jeff Bridges – the under-appreciated cult actor, not yet the beloved Oscar-winning actor – bought the rights to the award-winning book in the hopes of turning Lowry’s vividly visual story into a film, with his father Lloyd in the title role. ![]()
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