![]() ![]() Unlike other YA properties adapted for screen, The 5th Wave hits theaters before the conclusion of the series is released. The book is narrated through four characters’ alternating perspectives – that of Cassie, Zombie, Silencer, and Nugget. ![]() The first wave resulted in Earth losing power the second caused a giant earthquake the third unleashed deadly disease and the fourth, in the aliens taking over the bodies of humans. Yancey’s novel, which has 1.4 million copies in print, takes place on present-day Earth, in the aftermath of strategic waves of attacks by an alien species looking to wipe out human beings and conquer the planet. ![]() The movie, from Columbia Pictures, stars Chloë Grace Moretz, Nick Robinson, and Liev Schreiber, and is directed by J. The 5th Wave (Putnam, 2013), the first in Rick Yancey’s YA science fiction trilogy (followed by The Infinite Sea in 2014), arrives in theaters on January 15. On the immediate horizon is one that has many of the ingredients that made The Hunger Games a success: a dystopian setting, a high-stakes race for survival, and a strong-willed heroine thrust into a life she never would have chosen. ![]() With the Hunger Games franchise singing its swan song, industry eyes are looking to what might become the next big YA page-to-screen property. ![]()
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