
Cable, knows this and sends Tally to the Smoke with an ultimatum: find the Smoke or risk never becoming a Pretty.Uglies is my most popular series. She leaves Tally instructions on how to get there if she decides to follow her new friend. Shay doesn't want to become Pretty, so she runs away to a place called the Smoke.


After making friends with Shay, another teen with the same birthday as Tally, she is forced to travel outside society and find where Shay has run off to. However, there's a snag in her journey to becoming a Pretty. Related: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes Cast: Other Roles You've Seen the Actors Play However, you're only eligible for the operation after you turn sixteen, meaning Tally has to wait three months until she can join him in New Pretty Town and have her operation. Her best friend Peris has already started that next chapter, having an operation to make him a Pretty in the society they live in. The book follows Tally Youngblood, an almost sixteen-year-old, as she prepares to move into the next chapter of her life. The screenplay was written by Jacob Forman ( The Last Survivors), Vanessa Taylor ( Divergent, The Shape of Water), and Whit Anderson ( Ozark). King is slotted to both star in the project and serve as an executive producer, with McG, known for his work on Charlie's Angels and Netflix's The Babysitter, set to direct. Netflix picked up the rights to adapt the film in 2020, with Deadline announcing the film as a partnership between the streaming giant and Joey King. Netflix is adapting the Scott Westerfeld book Uglies, a story about a young teen fighting against a government just as controlling with its citizens as the Capitol is in The Hunger Games. While The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes is based on the prequel novel to The Hunger Games trilogy, another series is getting the adaptation treatment. With the upcoming film The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, it seems fans of the once-popular genre are about to experience a new group of movies based on their favorite series.

Young adult dystopian movies are making a comeback.
