The Divergent films might not generate quite the same excitement as the Twilight and Hunger Games franchises that it has followed, but they've been enough of a success to keep the movies coming. The final two entries, both adapted from Veronica Roth’s third novel, Allegiant, are undergoing a new split – they’ll now be called The Divergent Series: Allegiant and **The Divergent Series: Ascendant.
Word comes from MTV News, which also premiered the new logos for the two films, shown above. The movies continue the story of the divergents, led by Shailene Woodley’s Beatrice “Tris” Prior. For those who haven’t been following – and there are potential spoilers if not – the second film, Insurgent, left Tris and fellow freedom fighter/love interest Four (Theo James) discovering that their little corner of the world (a ruined, dystopian Chicago, home to various factions) wasn’t the last vestige of civilization, but actually an experiment to see if divergents could be created that might help save the rest of the world. Apparently. Somehow. It all has to do with original thinking.
Allegiant carries the tagline “Break the boundaries of your world”, which makes sense since Tris, Four and their fellow divergents will be headed beyond the wall around their city. As for Ascendant, that has “The end is never what you expect”, which could be a crafty reference to changes many outraged fans of the book wish could be made in the film. We’ll say no more about that.
With Robert Schwentke directing both entries and Miles Teller, Zoe Kravitz, Ansel Elgort, Naomi Watts, Maggie Q and new arrival Jeff Daniels in the cast, expect **The Divergent Series: Allegiant **on March 18 next year. Ascendant follows on March 24, 2017.