Joey King leads Netflix’s Uglies trailer, lastly bringing the difference of Scott Westerfeld’s novel to screens after almost twenty years.
Some folks say magnificence is simply pores and skin deep, however what if you happen to may change the way you have a look at a mobile stage? Would you embrace a process that augments your options, making you stereotypically lovely? What if that magnificence got here with a one-way ticket to a society the place each attractive individual lords over these thought-about lesser-than? In Netflix’s Uglies trailer, Joey King stars as Tally Youngblood, a younger girl awaiting her probability to turn into lovely and take her place among the many elite. Nonetheless, when issues don’t go as deliberate, Tally discovers a society that values pure magnificence over enhanced options and snobbery.
McG (The Babysitter, Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle) directs Uglies, primarily based on Scott Westerfeld’s novel sequence. Initially deliberate as a trilogy, Uglies spans eight books, with a movie adaptation taking greater than 20 years within the making, coming to Netflix on September 13. The solid consists of Keith Powers, Chase Stokes, Brianne Tju, Jan Luis Castellanos, Charmin Lee, Joey King, and Laverne Cox.
Netflix’s Uglies trailer offers off heavy YA vibes paying homage to The Starvation Video games, The Maze Runner, and the Divergent sequence. The trailer kicks off with Animal Collective’s feel-good jam “My Girls” from the band’s 2009 album Merriweather Put up Pavillion. Because the synth-heavy melody rains, McG’s Uglies tells a narrative a few superficial society that values magnificence above all, making a divide amongst folks residing within the trenches earlier than they ascend to a continuous celebration overflowing with flawless people. The commentary about disturbing magnificence requirements, conformity, and remaining true to your self is overwhelming. Hopefully, Uglies is deeper than the shallow folks it deems ultimate.
Right here’s the synopsis for the primary e book in Westerfield’s Uglies sequence:
Tally is about to show sixteen, and she will’t wait. In only a few weeks she’ll have the operation that can flip her from a repellent ugly right into a stunningly engaging fairly. And as a fairly, she’ll be catapulted right into a high-tech paradise the place her solely job is to have enjoyable.
However Tally’s new pal Shay isn’t certain she needs to turn into a fairly. When Shay runs away, Tally learns about a complete new aspect of the gorgeous world—and it isn’t very fairly. The authorities provide Tally a selection: discover her pal and switch her in, or by no means flip fairly in any respect. Tally’s selection will change her world eternally.
Netflix’s Uglies teaches us all a lesson in magnificence being within the eye of the beholder on September 13.
