The Divergent Series: Allegiant: Book vs. Movie

Robert Schwentke’s The Divergent Series: Allegiant (2016) draws on Veronica Roth’s 2013 novel. Tris and Four leave Chicago in search of answers about the society that has controlled their lives.

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About the book and the movie
Book
Allegiant cover
Author
Veronica Roth
Year
2013
Pages
592Buy book
Audiobook length
11 hr 51 minGet audiobook
Narrator
Emma Galvin, see all
Series
Divergent, book 3

With Chicago’s faction system collapsing, Tris and Tobias join a group determined to cross the boundary that has enclosed their lives. Outside, they encounter people who claim to explain how the city came to exist and why its inhabitants have been watched. Told through both Tris and Tobias, the story follows their conflicting responses to an account that unsettles their identities and creates new divisions between them.

Movie
The Divergent Series: Allegiant poster
Director
Robert Schwentke
Writer
Veronica Roth
Year
2016
Runtime
2 hrWatch on Amazon
Cast
Shailene Woodley, Theo James, Jeff Daniels, Miles Teller
Genre
action, Adventure, dystopian, post-apocalyptic, Romance, science fiction
IMDb
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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.

Other books in this series

  1. 1DivergentMovie · 2014
    Details
    Divergent poster
    Director
    Neil Burger
    Writer
    Evan Daugherty, Vanessa Taylor
    Year
    2014
    Runtime
    2 hr 19 min
    Cast
    Shailene Woodley, Theo James, Ashley Judd, Jai Courtney

    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.

  2. 2InsurgentThe Divergent Series: Insurgent · Movie · 2015
    Details
    The Divergent Series: Insurgent poster
    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. 3AllegiantThe Divergent Series: Allegiant · Movie · 2016You are here

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