The new trailer for The Giver finds Meryl Streep warning Jeff Bridges about choices.
"When people have the freedom to choose, they choose wrong," says Meryl Streep to Jeff Bridges in the new trailer for The Giver. The upcoming science fiction young adult movie was directed by Phillip Noyce, who also made Dead Calm and Patriot Games.
The Giver is based on the 1994 Newberry Medal winning book of the same name that was written by Lois Lowry. All the kids in middle school read it.
The Giver stars Brenton Thwaites as young hero Jonas. Taylor Swift can barely be seen in the trailer, but she is also featured along with Katie Holmes in the film, which the press release describes: “In a seemingly perfect community, without war, pain, suffering, differences or choice, a young boy is chosen to learn from an elderly man about the true pain and pleasure of the `real’ world.”
The grown-ups in the movie are Jeff Bridges, Meryl Streep – who plays the Chief Elder and Alexander Skarsgard. Also featured are Cameron Monaghan, from the cable series Shameless, and Odeya Rush, who played in The Odd Life of Timothy Green.
Jeff Bridges has been trying to make The Giver into a movie for 17 years. That's longer than Jacob's age in the movie.
The Giver opens Aug. 15.
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