Jeff Bridges must be a happy man. After trying to get an adaptation of Lois Lowry’s The Giver on the big screen for over two decades he’s finally managed it and it will be on the big screen in August (which will hopefully make him mind less that the other young adult movie he’s made, Seventh Son, has been pushed back to the graveyard of February).
The new trailer gives us a better look at Meryl Streep’s rather creepy character (not least because of her hair), as well as showing us that Brenton Thwaites will be learning secrets about his world – and Alexander Skarsgard – that literally let him see things in colour.
The Giver centers on Jonas (Thwaites), 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. The film is based on Lois Lowry’s beloved young adult novel of the same name, which was the winner the 1994 Newbury Medal and has sold over 10 million copies worldwide.
Jonas’ new position sees him cut off from everyone he knows and he is mentored by the former Receiver of Memories, known as The Giver (Bridges). The great cast also includes Katie Holmes and Taylor Swift.
After years of trying to get it off the grounds, Jeff Bridges is finally moving an adaptation of The Giver towards the screen. The likes of Meryl Streep, Alexander Skarsgard, Cameron Monaghan, Odeya Rush and Brenton Thwaites have already signed up to star alongside Bridges, and now Katie Holmes and Taylor Swift may join them.
Just yesterday it was revealed Meryl Streep had signed up to reunite with Robert De Niro for The Good House. Now 
Young Aussie actor Brenton Thwaites should see his star rise next year when he plays the Prince in Maleficent, and now he’s hoping to capitalise of that by signing up to star opposite Jeff Bridges in The Giver, which Philip Noyce is directing, based on Lois Lowry’s dystopian young adult novel.
Jeff Bridges has had a long relationship with the young adult novel The Giver. In the late 90s, he started trying to adapt Lois Lowry’s book for the big screen, but despite several years of effort, he had to admit defeat in 2007 when the rights were sold to Warner. However last year they became free again and so Bridges and producing partner Nikki Silver stepped in once more, and set Vadim Perelmen to handle the script.