It was a lot worse on screen than on the page. I think they shot it, and then they showed me dailies from it - the stills of it - and it was truly horrifying. I noticed that the scene where Edward gets stabbed in the eye was missing from the film version of Divergent. But I am a little sad it’s not in Chicago. I just went last week and it was still fun and a good atmosphere. Insurgent is currently shooting, this time in Atlanta, which means you can’t drop by like you could with Divergent when it was shot in your hometown of Chicago. It’s not that the door is totally slammed shut on Divergent forever, I could never say that, but for me it’s time to try something new. I’m excited to move on to something new, and work on something different. To me, it feels like a really good way of tying everything up. Is Four the final Divergent story for you? And so to have something else in the series to show them a little more of a favorite character felt good to write. Whether people liked it or not, the ending of Allegiant affected them emotionally.

And it felt a little more like it was something for the reader’s than it had before. In my mind they felt very different, but on the page that might not come across. A lot of people commented that Four’s voice wasn’t quite distinct enough from Tris. I feel like some amount of criticism helps.

PHOTOS Photos of ‘Divergent,’ ‘Fault in Our Stars’ Actor Ansel Elgortĭid feedback from Allegiant affect these stories since that was the first time that you debuted Four’s voice?Ī little bit. And then there was this great opportunity to show Tris and Four experiencing the same thing and having different reactions, or experiencing different things and reacting to each other. But when I wrote Allegiant, everything had become so much more complicated than I anticipated, so I really needed an additional perspective to take readers into the parts of the world that Tris wasn’t going to go into. No, I really wanted to whole series to be just in Tris’ voice, actually. Had you always planned for Allegiant to be from both perspectives? But the stories ended up being very long, and I think everyone involved felt they could be something more than a couple e-books. It was originally intended to be a couple e- books that would be released in the lead-up to the release of Allegiant.

Where did the idea for this new book, Four, come from?

THR spoke with Roth, 25, about her new book, wrapping up the Divergent world and the upcoming second Summit film, Insurgent. PHOTOS Teenage Dreams: 17 of the Most Popular YA Properties Adapted for TV and Film The new book, hitting stores on July 8, includes three pre- Divergent stories, one story that runs parallel with the events in Divergent, and three additional scenes from Divergent.

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