I can’t tell if I’m supposed to call this movie The Divergent Series: Insurgent or just Insurgent. I’m also not sure it matters, though the one thing I am most curious about is whether or not this film is going to make all that much money, especially after the truly awful Divergent, which even Miles Teller said filming it made him feel dead inside.
The first movie made only $288 million on an $85 million budget. You take into account theater splits, prints and advertising and there isn’t too much left, at least not so much that this becomes some major blockbuster event franchise. Add to that the 41% RottenTomatoes score and we aren’t exactly talking about a movie that’s operating on full cylinders. So I guess the next question is to wonder if more people will even turn out to see Insurgent or if the sour taste left by the first one has scared away newcomers to the franchise. That, and I’ve heard the second and third books in Veronica Roth‘s series get worse and worse as they go.
To Lionsgate’s credit, they’re already doing what they can to ensure the sequel gets a little extra coin announcing it will be released in 3D. You see, more than a third of the first film’s total domestic gross came during opening weekend, add a little 3D bump to that figure and that second weekend 53% drop looks a little better.
All that said, the studio is preparing its march to the film’s March 20, 2015 release beginning with the following character posters as well as the 3D motion posters I’ve included on the second page. Here’s the official plot synopsis:
The Divergent Series: Insurgent raises the stakes for Tris as she searches for allies and answers in the ruins of a futuristic Chicago. Tris (Shailene Woodley) and Four (Theo James) are now fugitives on the run, hunted by Jeanine (Winslet), the leader of the power-hungry Erudite elite. Racing against time, they must find out what Tris’s family sacrificed their lives to protect, and why the Erudite leaders will do anything to stop them. Haunted by her past choices but desperate to protect the ones she loves, Tris, with Four at her side, faces one impossible challenge after another as they unlock the truth about the past and ultimately the future of their world.
The posters feature the following characters Caleb (Ansel Elgort), Tori (Maggie Q), Uriah (Keiynan Lonsdale), Max (Mekhi Phifer), Peter (Miles Teller), Christina (Zoë Kravitz) and, of course, Four (Theo James) and Tris (Shailene Woodley), check ’em out below and their 3D counterparts on the second page.
