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Forgotten YA Adaptations, Ranked by Cultural Impact
Will Netflix’s Uglies leave a bigger mark than these 15 Twilight–Harry Potter–Hunger Games rip-offs?
The worst thing that can happen to an adult fan of YA fiction is when, after you’ve spent all that time scouring the internet for news of a big-screen version of your fave series and fancasting every character, Hollywood adapts it ten years after it was popular. After all, YA series were often the first novels we felt were written just for us: The characters mirrored our more mundane problems, the complicated lore made us proud of knowing it inside and out, and the standard themes of triumphing over controlling powers seemed like the most important and challenging fiction could get. Granted, only the first novel in the series could be considered young adult, and despite the massive marketing effort to start a Star Wars– meets– Harry Potter franchise, it kind of had nowhere to go; the much more grave and philosophical sequel, Speaker for the Dead, would likely never make it onto the big screen in a recognizable, intact way.
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