![]() “ Uglies really shaped my love of reading when I was younger. In an Instagram story after the film was announced in 2020, King gushed over the opportunity to bring the book to life and threw in a couple references to fan-favorite memories from the book too. According to Deadline, it was her advocacy for the book that got Netflix and Westerfeld to say yes to the adaptation. Like many Gen Zers, King was obsessed with Uglies as a kid. When her new bestie, Shay, rejects becoming “Pretty,” Tally has to decide where she stands: rebel or law-abiding citizen. Uglies follows teenager Tally Youngblood as she navigates a dystopian society where each citizen is required to be surgically altered to fit society’s beauty standard at age 16. ![]() Here’s everything you need to know about Netflix’s adaptation of Uglies, including the cast as well as predictions about its release date and trailer. Now, the almost 20-year-old book is getting the Netflix treatment with Joey King, of The Kissing Booth and The Act fame, as producer and star. At a time when The Hunger Games and Divergent were whipping up frenzies in middle schools everywhere, Uglies by author Scott Westerfeld joined the canon of beloved YA dystopian fiction. ![]()
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