I’m not sure that the YA adaptation ever really went anywhere, but it’s certainly not been knocking us down lately with awesome. There was all that Shadowhunters nonsense, and Midnight Sun that no one saw because it wasn’t Twilight, and even Everything, Everything and Every Day were super meh. (Love, Simon is the exception to this rule, obviously). But the YA genre was burst wide open with killer bestseller, The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas last year, and now the YA adaptation world has a new standard to judge everything by, because this movie looks as incredible as the book it’s based on.
The Hate U Give Trailer Is Just As Compelling As The Book
If you haven’t read The Hate U Give yet, you’re in a distinct minority of young adult book readers. It’s been at the top of the best seller lists since it debuted. It’s poignant, heart-breaking, enlightening, and necessary. It’s a fantastic novel. And the trailer is proving just as good.
Stellar cast and a trailer that hits just the right note of family, adolescence, pain and activism that is The Hate U Give. I could not be more excited for this movie! It punched me in the grief bone and looks like the book came straight to life, right down to Starr’s J’s.
I’m a black girl from Mississippi who sometimes didn’t have lights. Sometimes my family was on welfare. I’m straight from the hood, no ifs, ands, or buts about it.
The trailer just dropped for a movie based on a book I wrote.
Nothing is impossible.
With that, bye Twitter ?
— T’ChAngie Thomas (@angiecthomas) June 25, 2018
I love Angie Thomas.
But Wait; There’s More!
A YA trailer I Also Loved
While it’s still retaining the number one spot in our hearts, The Hate U Give is not the only YA adaptation to drop a great trailer recently. Netflix continues to bless us with all the goodness in the world, and there is no greater example than the new trailer for To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before.
Coming to all our couches August 17th is the cutest YA romance novel that was ever adapted. #TeamPeter
A YA Trailer I Need Right Now
Also, a trailer I desperately need to see dropped ASAP is Dumplin’ … based on the breakout novel by Julie Murphy, this one has original songs being penned by Dolly Parton herself, and there is every reason to want to see those on iTunes as soon as possible.
A YA Book I Need to See Adapted
We were so excited when our friends, author duo Christina Lauren, had their contemporary romance, Roomies, optioned! And now it’s time to get THE best YA I’ve read in forever, Autoboyography, on the screen as well. I need it. The world needs it.
Great YA novels are seemingly coming slower and slower these days, but as long as the good ones keep getting made into really great films and series, we will be here for them.
