Film Caveat: 'The 5th Wave'

With the Hunger Games franchise singing its performance, trade eyes square measure trying to what would possibly become succeeding massive YA page-to-screen property. On the immediate horizon is one that has several of the ingredients that created The Hunger Games a success: a dystopian setting, a high-stakes race for survival, and a stubborn heroine thrust into a life she ne'er would have chosen. The fifth Wave (Putnam, 2013), the primary in Rick Yancey’s YA fantasy triad (followed by The Infinite ocean in 2014), arrives in theaters on January fifteen. The movie, from Columbia footage, stars Chloë Grace Moretz, Nick Robinson, and Liev Schreiber, and is directed by J. Blakeson.

Yancey’s novel, that has one.4 million copies in print, takes place on current Earth, within the aftermath of strategic waves of attacks by AN alien species trying to wipe out folks and conquer the world. the primary wave resulted in Earth losing power; the second caused an enormous earthquake; the third unleashed deadly disease; and therefore the fourth, within the aliens taking on the bodies of humans. The book is narrated through four characters’ alternating views – that of sweet acacia, Zombie, Silencer, and Nugget.

The film focuses totally on 16-year-old sweet acacia (Moretz) World Health Organization survives the attacks and, when roaming solo, armed with a rifle and carrying her brother’s toy, joins forces with others to fight the onslaught before the fifth wave of attacks absolutely decimates humanity. Robinson plays mountain Parish, or Zombie, Cassie’s love interest. The fifth Wave might spark dialogue regarding whether or not dystopian fatigue has set in among viewers, or whether or not there's still “hunger” for additional. however whereas the enemy within the Hunger Games was a self-seeking totalitarian government exploitation media to control people into acceptive atrocious acts of violence, The 5th Wave sees humanity certain along within the fight against an outdoor, extraterrestrial force. However, suspicion of fellow humans becomes rampant within the fifth Wave, once aliens take over human bodies, creating them just about indistinguishable from humans.

Unlike different YA properties tailored for screen, The fifth Wave hits theaters before the conclusion of the series is discharged. the ultimate book, The Last Star, is scheduled  for might 2016, many months when the film opens. In AN interview earlier this year, Yancey mentioned however seeing the film even had some influence on his writing of the last novel, saying: “I conjointly saw things on set that gave Pine Tree State concepts for the third and final book of the series, that I can’t come in here, of course.”

Yancey wasn't directly attached  creating the film, however saw his role on the film set as being that of a “cheerleader.” within the interview he went on to mention that, whereas he may need had a number of considerations regarding whether or not the film would be effectively translated to screen, he eventually stopped worrying: “Movies don't seem to be books. Books don't seem to be movies. I write books and shouldn’t presume to inform these terribly proficient professionals the way to build movies. After all, they don’t tell Pine Tree State the way to write books!”

For readers hopeful for the ultimate book and therefore the film’s unleash, the moving-picture show tie edition of The fifth Wave offers slightly teaser style of the dystopic, mass destruction to return. whereas there's no news nevertheless regarding whether or not The fifth Wave’s sequel also will be tailored to screen, the tie edition of the primary novel conjointly includes chapters from each The Infinite ocean and another of Yancey’s unrelated books, The Monstrumologist (Simon & Schuster)– that itself is presently in film development.