Summit Entertainment announced on March 20 that a "Divergent" sequel movie is in the works. Entitled "Insurgent", its tentative release date is on March 20, 2015. Tasked to write the story is Brian Duffield, screenwriter of "Jane Got a Gun." Robert Schwentke willl be directing the sequel.

"Divergent" is an American sci-fi action movie based on Veronica Roth's novel of the same title. Directed by Neil Burger, it was released in March 2014 with Lucy Fisher, Douglas Wick and Pouya Shabazian as producers. Evan Daugherty and Vanessa Taylor wrote the script. The setting of the story is a dystopian post-apocalyptic version of Chicago where citizens are strictly divided into different groups representing human virtues.

Critics gave mixed reviews of the first movie. As of the time of writing, it got a 41 percent rating from Rotten Tomatoes with a median score of 5.4/10 from 189 critics. However, the film got "A" from the Cinemascore, where the surveyed group consisted of 69 percent female half of it is over 25 years old.

The Cast of Divergent 

  • Shailene Woodley as Tris
  • Theo James as Four
  • Ashley Judd as Natalie
  • Ray Stevenson as Marcus
  • Jai Courtney as Eric
  • Miles Teller as Peter
  • Zoë Kravitz as Christina
  • Tony Goldwyn as Andrew
  • Maggie Q as Tori
  • Ansel Elgort as Caleb
  • Kate Winslet as Jeanine
  • Mekhi Phifer as Max
  • Ben Lloyd-Hughes as Will
  • Christian Madsen as Al
  • Amy Newbold as Molly
  • Ben Lamb as Edward

Joining the cast of "Divergent" in its sequel "Insurgent", Octavia Spencer will will be playing the role of Johanna, Amity's leader. Spencer won an Oscar for the movie "The Help" in 2012. Amity is a group dedicated to kindness, trust, forgiveness, self-sufficiency and peacefulness, but they may not readily help the heroes of the story for fear of violating their much-valued neutrality.