![]() For the most part, young adult dystopian series share many of the same storylines. Unfortunately, rather than take a risk and expand the dystopian genre with different versions of the story, the studios landed on Divergent, which was not successful enough to finish the franchise, The Maze Runner, which concluded but did not live up to the excitement of the previous two, and a subpar adaptation of The Giver. The story of a Chosen One who did not want their fate but was the face of change allowed the two franchises to feel connected enough for the shift to make sense. The Hunger Games had been a vastly different project, upholding a teenage protagonist with a dark fate and revolution in front of her, which worked in a world trying to find the next big thing as Harry Potter was ending. ![]() Rather than develop dystopian adaptations that followed different stories, studios piggybacked off the success of The Hunger Games with Divergent and The Maze Runner. ![]()
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