Deadline is reporting that Fox 2000 has optioned the rights to Inertia, a short story from Divergent author Veronica Roth, which is being adapted as a feature film by Wyck Godfrey and Marty Bowen of Temple Hill, the production company behind YA adaptations The Twilight Saga, The Maze Runner and The Fault in Our Stars.
The short story, which was published last year in the anthology Summer Days & Summer Nights, takes place in the near future where technology allows for ‘last visitations’, “a process in which a person can be connected to the consciousness of another nearing death. When Claire’s estranged best friend Matt is left in critical condition after a terrible car accident, she unexpectedly learns he’s requested their two minds be connected before he passes. Together they revisit their shared past, reliving the highs and lows of their relationship, and make new discoveries about the future they might have shared.”
The fourth and final chapter of Lionsgate’s Divergent Series adaptation, Ascendant, was pulled from the studio’s release schedule, and is currently being developed as a TV movie and possible spinoff series.
Originally published November 21, 2016. Updated April 15, 2018.
