
Some characters from the book didn’t make it into The Divergent Series: Insurgent, while others received more prominent or diminished roles. In the Insurgent book, Tris also has a fear of guns resulting from lingering guilt over having to shoot her friend Will (Ben Lloyd-Hughes) dead in the first movie, although in the sequel she’s pretty trigger-happy. In the book, there is no box but rather a hard drive and Jeanine is already aware of the secret it holds.Īnother difference between The Divergent Series: Insurgent and the book is there’s a device that detects how divergent individuals are which leads to the discovery Tris is 100% Divergent and thus possesses the traits of all five factions. One of the biggest differences is the movie introduced a mysterious box that could only be opened by a Divergent able pass a series of simulations, and once activated revealed Chicago’s faction system is an experiment and that a world exists beyond the city walls. The bare bones of the plot are the same, with Tris Prior and her allies going up against power-hungry Erudite leader Jeanine Matthews (Kate Winslet) and uncovering a major secret about their society, but the movie goes about it a different way to the book. With any book-to-screen adaptation there are bound to be a few changes and The Divergent Series: Insurgent featured some pretty big differences from its source material. Related: Divergent Series: Ascendant - Why The Final Movie Was Canceled A different writing team came on board too with Brian Duffield, Akiva Goldman and Mark Bomback responsible for translating Roth’s second Divergent book for the big screen. While Shailene Woodley and co-stars including Theo James and Miles Teller returned for the sequel, while original director Neil Burger handed over the reins to Robert Schwentke. The first movie was released in 2014 and was swiftly followed by sequel The Divergent Series: Insurgent the following year.
