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RICK YANCEY THE 5TH WAVE SERIES
But, I will say, as I wrote this series and the last book is coming out in May, the story kind of unfolded for me as the writer. As a writer particularly in this genre, your major goal is always to entertain you can tell a deep story and have a very reverberating message, but it better be that the story comes first and that’s what I always focus on. Message is something that I kind of let grow organically as the story goes. RICK YANCEY: Oh wow, especially when you write for young people you have to be careful about the whole message thing, because nobody likes to be preached at, especially young people. From what I have seen, I think that fans of the book will be very pleased how the filmmakers have captured those core stories and how they built the characters. I wasn’t there on a daily basis because I was working on another book at the time, but the days I was there I had regular talks with the producers and the director. But, the short answer is I was pretty involved. Although I did not have a hand in adapting my work, which is probably a good idea, because movies are not books and books are not movies, and there are demands that are narratively possible in books and not in movies and vice versa and I always try to keep that in mind as we move through the process. They were picked up shortly after the book was purchased by penguin publishing, and I had meetings very early on with executives and producers and also had some interaction with the screenwriters, so I was in that process pretty much from the very beginning. I think I was probably luckier than a lot of writers who have their original work adapted…the rights to the film were picked up even before I finished the book. The other colleges and their interviewers are credited below: He discussed writing the series, his opinions on the adaptation, and his excitement about the release of the film. The stakes come to an all time high when she’s separated from her brother and vows that nothing will stop her from getting him back, not even “The Others.”Ī week prior to the film’s release I had the chance to participate in a conference call with the author of “The 5th Wave,” Rick Yancey.
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Cassie is caught up in the chaos and various twists and turns place her with the harsh reality that she and her family might not make it to the end of this invasion. These visitors (quickly given the name “The Others”) begin to initiate “waves” of destruction with the intention to wipe out all humankind without damaging the Earth and it’s resources with no real motivation in sight. For a while, it remains dormant, or so they thought. The world is changed by a visit from a giant unknown “object” in sky that appears to be from another planet. However, these are the last “normal” aspects of human life that we see for the rest of the story. The film starts off with seemingly average depictions of teen culture with Cassie going to a party with her friends, crushing on a football player, and coming home before curfew. In the new sci-fi thriller “The 5th Wave,” lead actress Chloe Grace Moretz takes on an alien invasion that tests the will of humanity and the power of hope.īased off the best-selling young adult series by Rick Yancey “The 5th Wave” is the story of Cassie (Chloe Grace Moretz) a high school girl from Ohio with a normal life and a normal family.