Joey King will serve as producer on her highly anticipated book adaption ‘Uglies’. The Uglies are based on the Scott Westerfeld novel, which takes place in a world where everyone is considered a danger until they have a mandatory procedure to become pretty at the age of 16. Tally Youngblood is about to turn 16 and cant wait to live the good life as a pretty herself.
The movie rights to the novel were first purchased back in 2006, shortly after the book was released. EW asked Joey King about what made her purchase the rights to the film adaption;
“I’ve been trying to get this movie made for years, too. I’m obsessed. I was trying to obtain the book rights for so long and they were just always unavailable, so then I got em! And then I said, Hey Netflix, do you want to make this with me? And they were like, Yeah! [Laughs] And it took a very long time to get that off the ground and I’m really lucky.”
King insisted McG was the right director to helm the film and even teased some footage she was able to see while in production as she told collider;
“McG is so smart and just was the perfect person I think to make this film. We finished filming in December, and McG was so generous and showed a lot of the footage to me and the cast while we were still shooting, and god, it looks cool already. It was zero effects, zero coloring, zero special effects edited in, and it made my heart skip a beat because I’m such a big fan of this book series and have been since I was 11-years-old, and I’ve wanted to play Tally Youngblood for that along. And now I made it happen with such a great group of people, and it’s looking fantastic. It is one of those moments, and I’ve had a lot of these moments, where I’m like, ‘Just punch me.’ But this one was a dream for so long and it happened, and I don’t care if the movie does amazingly or not amazingly, I’ll never ever forget how special it was for me to make that.”
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