Joey King teases footage from the Uglies movie on ColliderLadiesNight! 'It made my heart skip a beat.'
Joey King has been bubbling over with raw talent in front of the lens for quite some time now, but in the last few years, she’s also been mighty busy beefing up her filmography as a producer. It all began when she was made an executive producer on the two Kissing Booth sequels.
The film rights to the novel were first purchased back in 2006, shortly after the book was released. Clearly that never panned out, so I opted to ask King what it is about this iteration of the project that made it the right one. Turns out, King was far more instrumental in getting this movie off the ground than I realized. In fact, she was the one who secured the book rights for this adaptation.
Again, King does have a good deal of producing experience at this point, but Uglies is different. Whereas she was added to the Kissing Booth producing team and The In Between script was brought to her, Uglies was a piece of material that required her to track down a partner to make it happen. She emphasized how lucky she was to find that partner in Netflix and then also highlighted a point that’ll likely make fans of the book series very happy; this film adaption received the author’s approval.
“McG is so smart and just was the perfect person I think to make this film. We finished filming in December, and McG was so generous and showed a lot of the footage to me and the cast while we were still shooting, and god, it looks cool already. It was zero effects, zero coloring, zero special effects edited in, and it made my heart skip a beat because I’m such a big fan of this book series and have been since I was 11-years-old, and I’ve wanted to play Tally Youngblood for that along.
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