In those halcyon days, when something like The Golden Compass didn't live up to expectations, New Line would opt out of producing the rest of the His Dark Materials trilogy. There was a time when studio heads would pump the brakes on material that wasn't working. How did we get to this weird place of wondering whether we should care about a major studio release based on a popular book series that had three sequels greenlit before the projectors cooled down on the first installment, Divergent? In order to correctly address the present, we must first consider the past, and Hollywood's unselfconscious embrace of the ethos "good enough is good enough." So, in order to effectively address the release of Insurgent, we're going to follow their lead and ignore it almost completely. We're not going to talk about Insurgent much because no one, including most of the people actually in the movie, cares. ![]() We're letting you know because we won't actually talk about Insurgent much here, but trust that's definitely what this story is about.
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