Final 'Divergent' movie to debut on TV?

Written By DNA Web Team | Updated: Jul 22, 2016, 08:51 AM IST

Poor performance by 'Allegiant' is reportedly causing the move. Will the stars associated abandon ship?

The final Divergent film will reportedly debut as a TV movie, followed by a spinoff series.

Lionsgate is reportedly planning to forgo the theatrical release for the final post-Apocalypse drama after Allegiant, the third movie in the series, did not fare well at the box office, reported Variety.

Shailene Woodley, Theo James, Ansel Elgort star in the movies, based on Veronica Roth's best-selling book series.

The development is in initial stages but the studio wants to wrap up the film series on the small screen and then do a standalone television series set in the same universe.

The first two Divergent films were box office hits, but the third movie could not replicate the same success.

The fourth and final film Ascendant was originally scheduled to debut in June 2017, when it would have faced competition from World War Z 2 and The Mummy reboot.

The studio initially planned to start shooting this summer in Atlanta the box office performance of the last movie changed things.