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A Good Day to Die Hard co-star Jai Courtney has joined Shailene Woodley (Amazing Spider-Man 2) in Summit Entertainment's upcoming sci-fi thriller called Divergent. We also previously heard that Kate Winslet was in talks to join the film as well, I'm just not sure if that's been solidified or not.
The studio has set The Illusionist and Limitless director Neil Burger to helm the movie which is based on the novel by Veronica Roth. The story has been likened to The Hunger Games as it features teen on teen violence. It centers on a 16-year-old girl named Beatrice Prior, who lives in a world where society is divided into five factions that each represent a particular virtue or personality: honesty, selflessness, bravery, peacefulness and intelligence. "Woodley plays the young protagonist, who is classified a 'divergent,' and told she will never fit into any specific group. She uncovers a conspiracy to destroy all 'divergents,' and must find out why others like her are considered so dangerous."
There's no word on who Courtney plays in the film, but it sounds like it could be a solidl film. Summit plans on releasing it on March 21st, 2014. This is the first book in a trilogy that's been planned, and here's the description:
In Beatrice Prior's dystopian Chicago, society is divided into five factions, each dedicated to the cultivation of a particular virtue—Candor (the honest), Abnegation (the selfless), Dauntless (the brave), Amity (the peaceful), and Erudite (the intelligent). On an appointed day of every year, all sixteen-year-olds must select the faction to which they will devote the rest of their lives. For Beatrice, the decision is between staying with her family and being who she really is—she can't have both. So she makes a choice that surprises everyone, including herself.
During the highly competitive initiation that follows, Beatrice renames herself Tris and struggles to determine who her friends really are—and where, exactly, a romance with a sometimes fascinating, sometimes infuriating boy fits into the life she's chosen. But Tris also has a secret, one she's kept hidden from everyone because she's been warned it can mean death. And as she discovers a growing conflict that threatens to unravel her seemingly perfect society, she also learns that her secret might help her save those she loves . . . or it might destroy her
