The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
The young adult novel turned movie is one of the most popular at the moment with the likes of Twilight being a huge box office success and Beautiful Creatures and Warm Bodies being released already this year.
If you are a fan of this genre then this summer has also been a good one as Cassandra Clare’s The Mortal Instruments series came to the big screen for the very first time.
City of Bones is the first novel in the sees and saw Lily Collins and Jamie Campbell-Bower take on the lead roles of Clary Frey and Jace Wayland.
And there are a whole host of projects in this genre on the horizon; some of which are the most anticipated films of 2013 and early 2014.
- The Hunger Games: Catching Fire - released 21st November.
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire is already one of the most talked about films of this year; and we still have over two months until it hit’s the big screen.
Jennifer Lawrence is now an Oscar winning actress and she is set to reprise the role of Katniss Everdeen in the second of Suzanne Collins’ novels to be adapted for the big screen.
The movie follows Katniss and Peeta as they begin their victory tour of the districts of Panam after they return from the Hunger Games. But celebrations are short lived as they are sent back into the arena for the Quarter Quell.
Francis Lawrence has taken over the director’s chair this time around, and Catching Fire is set to be one of the biggest films of the autumn.
- Ender’s Game - released 25th October.
There have already been some great science fiction films this year, but there is still more to come with Ender’s Game; which is the big screen adaptation of the novel of the same name by Orson Scott Card.
The movie sees Gavin Hood return to the director’s chair as he brings a fantastic cast together including Asa Butterfield, Harrison Ford, Abigail Breslin, Ben Kingsley, Hailee Steinfeld and Viola Davis; the perfect balance between well established stars and upcoming talent.
Ender’s Game is set seventy years after a war with an alien race and follows Ender Wiggin - a gifted child who is sent to an advanced military school to learn how to fight against a future invasion.
Asa Butterfield - who starred in Hugo - is set to take on the title character in what is one of the biggest roles of his career. This is a film that could further cement the actor as one of the best up and coming young stars.
There is already a lot of hype surrounding the film and it is being tipped to be one of the best sci-fi films to hit the big screen in 2013.
- Divergent - released 21st March 2014.
Shailene Woodley has been pretty quiet since her breakthrough role in The Descendants in 2012, but she will be returning to the big screen next year with Divergent.
The movie is a big screen adaptation of the novel of the same name by Veronica Roth, and will see Neil Burger return to the director’s chair.
Divergent is a thrilling adventure set in a future world where people are divided into distinct factions based on their personalities, Tris Prior (Woodley) is warned she is Divergent and will never fit into any one group.
When she discovers a conspiracy to destroy all Divergents, she must find out what makes being Divergent so dangerous before it’s too late.
Kate Winslet, Jai Courtney, Maggie Q and Ashley Judd are also on the cast list of what was one of the most talked about films at this year’s Comic Con.
I know that it is only August, but we are already looking ahead to movies of 2014... and this is set to one that is not to be missed.
- Seventh Son - released 7th February 2014
Seventh Son should have been one of the movies that was hitting the big screen this autumn, but instead it has been pushed back to the beginning of next year.
The movie is a big screen adaptation of Joseph Delaney’s The Spook’s Apprentice; the first novel in the Wardstone Chronicles series.
The movie sees Sergey Bodrov return to the director’s chair for the first time since A Yakuza’s Daughter Never Cries - this is set to be the most mainstream film of his directing career to date.
Jeff Bridges will take on the role of Master Gregory while Julianne Moore will play Mother Malkin and Ben Barnes is Tom Ward; the seventh son.
Kit Harington, Olivia Williams, Djimon Hounsou and Alicia Vikander make the very impressive cast list.
In a time long past, an evil is about to be unleashed that will re-ignite the war between the forces of the supernatural and humankind once more.
Master Gregory (Bridges) is a knight who had imprisoned the malevolently powerful witch, Mother Malkin (Moore), centuries ago. But now she has escaped and is seeking vengeance.
Summoning her followers of every incarceration, Mother Malkin is preparing to unleash her terrible wrath on an unsuspecting world.
Only one thing stands in her way: Master Gregory. In a deadly reunion, Gregory comes face to face with the evil he always feared would someday return.
Now he has only until the next full moon to do what normally takes years: train his new apprentice, Tom Ward (Barnes) to fight a dark magic unlike any other.
- The Fault In Our Stars
Shailene Woodley has not just got one teen fiction film role on the horizon but two, as she is set to lead the cast in the adaptation of The Fault In Our Stars.
The movie is currently in pre-production but it is based on the novel by John Green and will see Josh Boone back in the director’s chair.
This will be the second directorial outing for Boone, after he made his debut with Stuck In Love earlier this year.
Woodley is set to take on the central role of Hazel Grace Lancaster, a cancer sufferer whose life is changed when she meets Augustus Waters at a support group.
- The Mortal Instruments: City of Ashes
The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones may have just hit the big screen but plans are already underfoot for City of Ashes.
Yes it seems that Hollywood will waste not time in getting the second of the Cassandra Clare novels adapted for the big screen; Harald Zwart has been linked to return to the director’s chair.
Lily Collins, Jamie Campbell-Bower and Kevin Zegers look set to return, while it was revealed that earlier this summer that Sigourney Weaver was in talks for a role in the film.
The film will continue to follow Clary Frey as her world continues to spin with the news that she is a Shadowhunter and the boy that she is in love with is her brother. However what does her father Valentine have in store for them?
The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones is out now.
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