That coupled with the franchise’s diminishing critical and commercial reception led to Divergent 4 not moving forward. But at least Burger had the wherewithal to know doing the fourth film wasn’t the best idea. Of course, that mindset ultimately doomed a promising franchise. And I don’t think the third one, which I think I’m an executive producer on, but I wasn’t really involved in it, it just didn’t go well, and then it got left hanging with part of it.Īs Neil Burger pointed out, Lionsgate was looking at cash grab by patterning the Divergent franchise after other young adult franchises. It didn’t need to be, and it shouldn’t have been. … But at the time, actually I think I said to them, ‘It should just be three.’ You know, they had split Harry Potter and split Twilight, The Hunger Games. Divergent (2014) Released the same year as The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, Divergent is also a dystopian sci-fi movie franchise based on a widely popular series of young-adult novels. Lionsgate is distributing Voyagers, and I love the people at Lionsgate. And it’s a shame, in a way, because there were three books, and it should have been three (movies). But if you are asking me if I think it’s going to happen, I don’t. The director recently told the hosts of our own ReelBlend podcast: So years after its cancellation, Burger finally answered the longstanding question while promoting his latest film Voyagers. Neil Burger would know more than anyone considering he directed the first installment and produced the last two. The Divergent series was left with some loose ends and unfinished storylines after Divergent 4 was canceled. The lingering question has been out there for years.

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