Hollywood Is Turning ‘The Giver' Into A Movie, Here's The First Trailer
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We've been waiting for this for a long time.<span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;"> </span>
<p class="p1">Hollywood is turning Lois Lowry's 1993 best-selling novel "The Giver" into a movie. The Weinstein Company released the first trailer for the film today. As far as young adult adaptations go, we're pretty excited.<span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;"> </span>
<p class="p1">The film has a huge cast ranging from Meryl Streep and Jeff Bridges to Alexander Skarsgard ("True Blood"), Katie Holmes, and Taylor Swift.<span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;"> </span>
<p class="p1">Brenton Thwaites, who will be in this summer's live-action "Maleficent" adaptation, will star as the lead.<span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;"> </span>
<p class="p1">While we've seen a lot of trailers for other young adult adaptations, like upcoming "Divergent," and more recently, "The Maze Runner," Lowry's "The Giver" is pretty well known, if not mandatory school reading growing up.<span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;"> </span>
<p class="p1">Here's the official synopsis from The Weinstein Company:<span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;"> </span>
<p class="p3" style="padding-left: 30px;">"The haunting story of THE GIVER centers on Jonas, who lives in a seemingly ideal, if colorless, world of conformity and contentment. Not until he is given his life assignment as the Receiver of Memory does he begin to understand the dark, complex secrets behind his fragile community."<span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;"> </span>
<p class="p1">"The Giver" is in theaters August 15.
<p class="p1">Check it out below:
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<p class="p1">The film teases a website, Destiny.org, but it doesn't seem to be working right now.
<p class="p2"><img src="http://static1.businessinsider.com/image/5329a2816bb3f7cb20be296a-911-155/destiny.org.png" border="0" alt="destiny.org" />Here's another photo from the film:<img src="http://static1.businessinsider.com/image/5329a316ecad041439df3c0b-1996-3000/the-giver-brenton-thwaites.jpg" border="0" alt="the giver brenton thwaites" width="600" style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;" />
<p class="p2">Producer Nikki Silver tweeted out a photo from the set back in October.
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Our Giver family @KatieHolmes212 @taylorswift13 @TheJeffBridges @OdeyaRush1 @CameronMonaghan @thegivermovie pic.twitter.com/S9aQztUX7U
- Nikki Silver (@nssilver) October 25, 2013</blockquote>
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