The internet is non-existent for the public. First off, though the books are set in an alternate version of “present day,” the level of technology in the Americas (though not in the rest of the world), is lower in many ways. When I first came up for the setting of the Hybrid Chronicles, I had some parameters in mind. For example, was anyone else caught off-guard by the steampunk feel permeating the Golden Compass movie? Or the overt militaristic feel (all drill-sergeant-y and push-ups) of the Ender’s Game movie? When we read a book, especially one set in a world very different from our own, we create our own “atmosphere.” Often, this atmosphere is unique to each reader, and it’s cool (though sometimes somewhat disorienting!) to see which atmosphere is chosen for the movie. Characters can be combined or deleted or altered in personality and appearance.īut sometimes, it’s even larger-scale things. Plots can be simplified, with subplots cut for timing. There are the obvious changes that can be made, of course. I took a few film and screenwriting classes in college, and I’ve loved film for a long time, so I’m always really interested in seeing how the moviemakers interpret a book, transforming it from a written to a visual media. There are plenty more in the pipeline, too! The Duff finished filming not too long ago, and I keep hearing about studios snapping up movie rights to new books. Of course, we can’t forget the Hunger Games movies, as well as Divergent and The Fault in Our Stars. It really seems like YA books are getting adapted into movies left and right these days! The Giver has just released, as have If I Stay and The Maze Runner. But the price they might pay is higher than they ever could have imagined.Īuthor Kat Zhang recently stopped by to talk about YA movie adaptations, and some movie scenes that have a similar look and feel to what she’d imagined when writing her novels. It's risky, and Eva will have to leave Ryan and her friends behind, but if she succeeds, it could also tip the scales forever and lead to hybrid freedom.Īs Eva and Addie walk into danger, they cling to each other and the hope of a better future. Then Marion, an ambitious reporter, offers Eva and Addie a daring proposal: If they go undercover and film the wretched conditions of a hybrid institution, she will not only rescue them, she'll find a way to free Jackson, the boy Addie loves.
A revolution is brewing, and people are starting to question the hybrids' mistreatment. Now Eva and Addie, her sister soul, are constantly on the move, hiding from the officials who seek to capture them.
But in the Americas, to be hybrid-to share your body with a second soul-is not tolerated past childhood.
(You can read my review here.)Īll Eva ever wanted was the chance to be herself. The final book in the Hybrid Chronicles, Echoes of Us, came out this week.
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