Alexander Skarsgard Stars in The Giver
FIRST LOOK: The Giver, a long-gestating film adaptation of Lois Lowry’s seminal middle-grade dystopian novel that is based in a world of “sameness.”
CelebNMuisc247.com has the report on the trailer which released in March with a bit of backlash by fans who didn’t take well to the movie adaptation of the novel in bright, lurid color, even though The Giver takes place in a world ruled by “sameness.”
In The Giver, there’s no real free will, no real individuality, and, most importantly, no color besides shades of gray, at least until the story’s protagonist begins to learn more about the world as it used to be.
Wow, sounds fun right? NOT!
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Anyways the posters are now sharing the a more accurate view of the novel without color, minus a small strip that runs through the center of each image. The message: “We hear you, Giver fans.” Think this means they might reconsider that random spaceship too?
In this film True Blood‘s Alexander Skarsgard plays Jonas’s unnamed father, a Nurturer — meaning he’s responsible for taking care of the Community’s new babies. (All children are conceived via artificial insemination and born of designated Birth Mothers before being placed with Community families.)
Synopsis:
The haunting story of THE GIVER centers on Jonas, 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 Newbery Medal and has sold over 10 million copies worldwide.
