When the first trailer landed for The Giver it didn’t look far removed from the heaps of YA adaptations we’ve been getting as of late, which is room enough for disappointment, but another aspect left fans of the source material in disarray. It looked like The Weinstein Company decided not to follow Lois Lowry‘s novel, which features a world seen in black-and-white by its inhabitants.
They’ve now dropped a new featurette which reveals that they are seemingly keeping that aspect hidden from general audiences, as the adaptation will indeed include the black-and-white component. Led by newcomer Brenton Thwaites, he plays Jonas, a teenager living in a seemingly utopian world before that soon crumbles when he learns about his community’s dark past.
Check out the new footage below for the film directed by Phillip Noyce (Salt, Patriot Games) and also starring Jeff Bridges, Meryl Streep, Alexander Skarsgard, Katie Holmes, Odeya Rush, and Taylor Swift.
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.
The Giver opens on August 15th, 2014.
Are you happy the film will be partially in black-and-white?