“What was important for us in this movie was we’re getting outside the wall, so we feel like we’re starting with a big concept of what is over the wall. Todd Lieberman on making a movie out of a complicated novel: Lieberman and other castmembers spoke with THR on the red carpet before Monday night’s screening about how the book compares to the movie, and how they believe the core of the novels is retained despite any changes. (When this scene was shown at the New York City premiere of the film March 14, there were audible gasps from the audience.)įirst Trailer for 'The Divergent Series: Allegiant' Shows Life Beyond the Wall Peter (Miles Teller) then gets involved in a way that puts Evelyn in grave danger. In the film, David gets Four’s mother Evelyn, (Naomi Watts), to disseminate the memory serum but she has a crisis of conscience. However, the way the action plays out is different in the third movie. In both the movie and the book, when Tris realizes David plans to wipe the memories of her hometown using a gas version of the memory serum, she springs into action against him. In the novel, a memory-erasing serum plays a big role in the story, as it does in the film. In the book and movie, Tris ( Shailene Woodley), Four (Theo James) and their friends discover that their world was all part of an experiment involving genetic modifications, leaving some people “pure” and others “damaged.”ĭavid, played by Jeff Daniels, is the leader of the Bureau of Genetic Welfare and although it doesn’t take Four long to realize he is evil, it takes Tris a while longer to catch on.

Third book in divergent series