Divergent: Book vs. Movie
Neil Burger’s Divergent (2014) is based on Veronica Roth’s 2011 novel, the first in her trilogy. Tris leaves her family’s faction for Dauntless while hiding a test result that makes her a target.
About the book and the movie
- Author
- Veronica Roth
- Year
- 2011
- Pages
- 576Buy book
- Audiobook length
- 11 hr 11 minGet audiobook
- Narrator
- Emma Galvin
- Series
- Divergent, book 1
At sixteen, Beatrice Prior must choose which of five factions will determine her adult life, knowing that leaving her parents’ faction also means leaving their household. She joins Dauntless and takes the name Tris, but entry does not guarantee acceptance. Ranked against other recruits in combat and fear simulations, she must hide the test result that makes her difficult for the authorities to classify.
- Director
- Neil Burger
- Writer
- Evan Daugherty, Vanessa Taylor
- Year
- 2014
- Runtime
- 2 hr 19 minWatch on Amazon
- Cast
- Shailene Woodley, Theo James, Ashley Judd, Jai Courtney
- Genre
- action, Adventure, dystopian, post-apocalyptic, Romance, Thriller
- IMDb
- View on IMDb
Tris enters the Dauntless faction expecting to learn courage, only to discover that failure in training means expulsion from the society she has chosen. Her instructor Four notices that she responds to fear simulations in a way that could expose her as Divergent. As political leaders move against her former community, the secret she is trying to hide becomes central to surviving the attack.
Other books in this series
- 1DivergentMovie · 2014You are here
- 2
InsurgentThe Divergent Series: Insurgent · Movie · 2015Details
- Director
- Robert Schwentke
- Writer
- Akiva Goldsman, Mark Bomback, Veronica Roth
- Year
- 2015
- Runtime
- 1 hr 59 min
- Cast
- Shailene Woodley, Theo James, Octavia Spencer, Jai Courtney
Hunted after the attack on Abnegation, Tris and Four move between factions while Jeanine searches for a Divergent capable of opening a sealed message. Tris’s grief makes refuge difficult, and Four’s reunion with his mother introduces an uneasy alliance with the factionless. Jeanine’s pursuit eventually forces Tris to face simulations designed to test more than her ability to withstand fear.
- 3
AllegiantThe Divergent Series: Allegiant · Movie · 2016Details
- Director
- Robert Schwentke
- Writer
- Veronica Roth
- Year
- 2016
- Runtime
- 2 hr
- Cast
- Shailene Woodley, Theo James, Jeff Daniels, Miles Teller
Tris and her companions escape over Chicago’s wall and are taken to a facility that has been observing the city. Its director offers Tris a special place in his plans, while Four grows suspicious of the control exercised over the people they have left behind. Divided between the facility’s promises and events inside Chicago, the group must decide whether its rescuers can be trusted.
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