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will her career recover from the divergent flop


i hope she can continue acting for years. just worried because the divergent movies did not do so well at the box office for her.

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She is not doing the divergent tv movie because she doesn't want to be blacklisted.

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Of course, she will rebound. She has "Big Little Lies", an HBO project on the horizon.

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It's different each episode is 1 hour.

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$765 million world wide is a flop?

You're not real smart are you?

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Yeah, Divergent did SO WELL that they never finished it.

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He seems smart enough, since the word flop has definitely been thrown around as the series was driven into the ground by bad reviews and diminishing box office returns.

Here's the Washington Post calling Allegiant a flop: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2016/03/21/as-divergent-allegiant-dips-have-we-reached-the-fatigue-point-with-ya-dystopian-films/?utm_term=.4cda47005d2b

When the last potential film in a series is going direct to TV at best, that's when you know the franchise is done.

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This former A- list mostly movie actress who has seen her career crash and burn because studios thinks she is too outspoken about her beliefs has been caving into the pressure to not rock the boat. So, she didn't bring her girlfriend to an award show this weekend. Shailene Woodley (Annual Hollywood Film Awards)

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I think the Divergent franchise put a end to her probably been a A-Lister and superstar. But I don't think it did to much damage to her movie career overall.

She's got the big TV hit Big Little Lies. Most of her movie roles have been little seen and she seems to have gone more into Indie work then big blockbuster stuff, although she was supposed to do Jumanji reboot but it clashed with Big Little Lies, so Karen Gillian took her part. She also turned down or miss out on roles that probably could have easily put Divergent misfire behind her. stuff like Fifty Shades of Gray, The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (she was more cut out of that then turning it down), Les Miserables (she lost out to Amanda Seyfried) and The Hunger Games (she was favorite for a while until J.Law came along). Say if she got Fifty Shades of Gray and The Hunger Games franchises, she would have been a far bigger name then she is now as much as those films aren't any use.

Her best films to date probably her breakthrough in The Descendants, The Fault in Our Stars and Spectacular Now. She's yet to really have a breakout adult performance. She badly needs one for me.

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She's like Britt Robertson in that doing a flop resulted in her being relegated to TV.

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Woodley would have been better in "The Hunger Games" than Lawrence, who was miscast. Woodley is a better fit physically, as she's tall and athletic, and she can play thoughtful or withdrawn much better than Lawrence can, Lawrence does better with mouthy characters.

Oh well, too late to complain about that!

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What career?

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