Insurgent Trailer Thoughts...

Okay, so the trailer for Insurgent (the second film in the Divergent series) premiered about 4 hours ago, and I have now watched it numerous times!!
Normally, the first time I watch a trailer for a new film I'm looking forward to, there are a lot of tears involved, however, the only thing I could think about Insurgent was how confused I was!! I mean, I was incredibly happy to see Fourtris again on screen, but I hardly recognised any of the scenes. I know it was just a trailer as opposed to the whole film, but I'm beginning to feel slightly worried as to how this will be adapted to the screen.
Divergent's director was Neil Burger, who didn't create a masterpiece out of it, but adapted it from the novel fairly faithfully and did produce an incredible film at the end of the day. However, Neil Burger hasn't stayed on to direct Insurgent and has been replaced by Robert Schwentke, who has been put down to direct both parts of Allegiant, too. Before we even saw a teaser trailer, Schwentke announced that he was adding a new character, Edgar, to the film, who isn't in the books.
It has been quite a while since I read the Divergent books, but I remember liking Insurgent the least out of the three. Since I read it so far back, I can't really remember the specific details of what went on. This won't be a spoilery post, so I'm not going to say what I can remember, but it didn't really match with the trailer. It might just be me, but I don't remember there being a 'box situation' in the book, like there is in the trailer, and I definitely don't recognise some of the other scenes!! This has lead me to believe that Insurgent isn't going to be as faithful an adaptation as its processor, but this doesn't mean to say that it won't be a good film.
I am really excited to see how this film will compare to the book version and to the first Divergent film, but I guess I will have to wait until March to see it. I will definitely be re-reading the whole series before I watch it though as I want to see how  faithfully it will be adapted. I'm confident that it won't live up to the incredibly high bar that Mockingjay Part 1 has sent for the YA Dystopian genre, but we'll have to see...

To see the Insurgent trailer click here.

Well, that's all for now. Bye!

Charlotte xxx