Following her Golden Globe nominated performance in The Descendants, Shailene Woodley’s career has been flying. Just in the last week it’s been revealed she’s up for the highly coveted role of Mary Jane Watson in The Amazing Spider-Man 2, and now THR reports she’s the process of making a deal to play the female lead in Divergent.
The movie is based on the novel of the same name by Veronica Roth, which is drawing comparisons to The Hunger Games. The story is about a 16 year old girl named Beatrice Prior, who lives in a society divided into five factions, each based on a different virtue: honesty, selflessness, bravery, peacefulness, and intelligence. Neil Burger will direct this first installment of what is being set up as a trilogy. Snow White and the Huntsman’s Evan Daugherty is writing the screenplay.
The current plan is for shooting to begin in March of 2013, which hopefully won’t clash with Spiderman 2.
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