YA novel adaptations used to be omnipresent in movie theaters, so where did they go?
As the 21st century began, a new subgenre began to dominate movie theaters. Feature film adaptations of young-adult novels were becoming a license to print money. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone helped to kick this trend off, with the next 15 years seeing a steady stream of other pieces of literature from this subgenre getting brought to the screen. Today, though, they’ve vanished almost entirely from the landscape of theatrical landscapes. What would’ve sounded impossible circa.
This subgenre was so ubiquitous that it was always evolving, there was always a new big hit coming around to reinvent what was considered “the norm” among YA novel adaptations. It’s not like the hallmarks of Harry Potter or Twilight didn’t get turned into punchlines, but the barrage of books aimed at teens getting turned into movies ensured those hallmarks wouldn’t get run into the ground so much that audiences would vomit at the sight of a poster for a new YA novel adaptation.
This includes several outfits that were committed to YA novel adaptations. Summit Entertainment took a chance on the Twilight novels but was absorbed into Lionsgate at the start of 2012. Even more devastating is 20th Century Fox and its Fox 2000 division, which spearheaded The Fault in Our Stars as well as other YA novel adaptations like Love, Simon and The Hate U Give.
Actors Have Moved On The dwindling presence of the YA novel adaptation on the big screen can even be seen as a byproduct of new young actors finding alternative ways to get their big break with the public. Now, the classic crop of YA novel adaptation stars actually did fine with securing both success and not being defined solely by their roles as Harry Potter, Edward Cullen, etc. But finding that balance didn’t happen immediately.
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