jennifer yuh nelson
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The Darkest Minds Feels Like It’s Missing More Than A Few Pages
If you sat down to watch The Darkest Minds without knowing it was based on a book, that information would become abundantly clear about 10 minutes into the film. Almost every scene, especially early on, feels slightly detached from the last, as if some cohesive thread was cut to squeeze a 500-page book into a…
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The Director Of Kung Fu Panda 3 Is Making An X-Men Meets The Walking Dead YA Film
Director Jennifer Yuh Nelson, who helmed the last two Kung Fu Panda movies, is making her live-action debut with an equally high concept idea. It’s called Darkest Minds, based on a series of books by Alexandra Bracken, and it’s sort a mash-up of X-Men and The Walking Dead.