With production on Divergent sequel, Insurgent well underway, film producers Donald Wicks and Lucy Fisher want fans to rest easy about new director, Robert Schwentke. In a new interview, the pair spoke of why Schwentke is the right fit for the upcoming sequel, and more.
Speaking to the Hero Complex, the pair said that the process of working with a new director and new screenwriters for Insurgent has been “exciting.” Wicks then went on to speak about what makes Insurgent director Robert Schwentke from Divergent director Neil Burger. “Insurgent is a much different movie. You have a much more complicated Tris. You have a woman who’s been through a lot of loss, and she’s got to find an angel kind of strength, she’s got to make peace with a world that’s in much more turmoil than the one in Divergent.”
Wicks then went on to say that after hearing from a fair few filmmakers, they knew Schwentke was the right choice because he “came in with both a really great gut sense of Tris’ emotional journey, and he was really fascinated by her recovery and triumph from post traumatic stress.”
“We were very stimulated by his ideas,” Wicks told Hero Complex. “One of the most exciting visual possibilities is always the fear landscapes and he had really extraordinary visual ideas.”
Both producers also had high praise for Divergent author Veronica Roth saying that the young author is “incredibly intuitive” in her writing — something that has been a huge help in having to comb over the series in order to turn the books into films.
Finally, Fisher spoke briefly of the film’s stars, Shailene Woodley and Theo James saying, “[They’re] mesmerizing separately and together, and together they do something that you rarely get to see anymore, which is just explode with chemistry and you want more, and luckily we can deliver more in the next movie, though some of it is more combative.” said Fisher.
Insurgent hits theaters on March 20, 2015.