Why wouldn't they make a movie?

      FOX picked up Lauren Oliver 's Delirium for a pilot. But the pilot was rejected.

C A S T

Emma Roberts as Magdalena Haloway

Daren Kagasoff as Alex Sheathes

Jeanine Mason as Hana Tate

     I don’t agree with the cast. It’s wrong. They do not fit the characters. Especially Hana and Alex! In my opinion, Emma Roberts as Lena is OK, her appearance looks like Lena’s. But Alex and Hana don’t look like they are supposed to. So I decided to find completely different an actor who would be perfect for Alex and an actress for Hana. As for me, I wouldn’t make the Delirium trilogy as TV series. It had better make a movie (three parts: Delirium, Pandemonium and Requiem). I haven’t watch the pilot series because comments were negative. According to them, it has nothing common with the book. The first episode included the whole Delirium and the part of Pandemonium; all interesting, important and notional scenes were not shown. It’s strange.

It is the trailer for the TV series which Fox decided not to pick up. Here the official trailer 

 

…but I think this trailer is more detailed

   Who could play Lena Haloway?

     As for me, Emma Roberts is suitable for this part.

     Lena described herself as not ugly, but not pretty either. In-between, she said. Her eyes are not green or brown, but a muddle. She's not thin, she isn't fat either. She is short. Described with long and soft brown hair, and a splatter of freckles on her nose.

Who could play Hana Tate?

Amber Heard

Sasha Pieterse

  Hana Tate is tall, blonde, beautiful, and rich. Lena said “She’s absolutely gorgeous – even when she just twists her blond hair into a messy knot on the top of her head, she looks as though she’s just had it styled”. Sometimes breaking rules was an exciting entertainment for Hana. “...as she is: running, laughing, tan and happy and beautiful…” I imagined Hana like Amber Heard or Sasha Pieterse, I would choose one of them.

 Who could play Alex?

Alex Pettyfer

Brenton Thwaites

        
     The actor for Alex looks nothing like him! He is described as having auburn hair (like a crown of burning leaves), gold eyes, and tan skin. Autumn leaves are not black

     I think Alex Pettyfer or Brenton Thwaites could play Alex. If I have to choose one of them I’d choose Brenton Thwaites. He would be perfect Alex because he looks really like him.


    To sum up, this whole trailer and the first episode were not anything like the book. I’d like to see a scene when Alex taking Lena over the fence to show her his trailor (his home without the roof where they watched the stars all night) and poetry. Show the abandoned mansion they used to lay in and have picnics in. The last few chapters were the most important, which have to be shown: her being tied to her bed so that she couldn’t escape from the cure the next day; jumping out the window to Alex; their running and the tragic final.

What’s the ending?

     I’ve done it. I finished to read the book. Before knowing the ending, I predicted it.

What I knew before my prediction!

     Lena passed her evaluation exam successfully. Now she is paired with Brian Scharff and supposed to marry him after procedure. The problem is that Lena fell in love with Alex. The biggest problem is that he is one of the Invalids (found out, they are real not just make-believe stuff). Despite everything, they are secretly dating. One day, they made prohibited journey to the Wilds, Alex showed Lena his home, his native-town. After that Lena realizes that all which was surrounded her and in what she had believed was lie. Now she sees all cruelty of the society’s rules: raids, regulators (“They’ve (government) lied about everything – about fence (between Portland and Wilds), and the existence of the Invalids, about a million other things besides.”). Lena can't forget that her life has been chosen for her. To escape her fate, Lena and Alex decide to run away from Portland and live in the Wilds together.

Real ending

Their plan was delayed by two things:

1. Alex realizes that Lena's mother might still be alive in the Crypts, Portland's mental institution (looked like a prison for sympathizers). To check it, Alex took Lena to visit her mother, but finds out she's escaped (run away). Lena is shocked she thought her mother was dead for twelve years. She realizes that all her relatives knew the truth except her.
2. The night Alex and Lena are supposed to meet, the police and the regulators discover them, and Lena is beaten by the guards but Alex manages to escape. Lena is taken home (Lena's family straps her to a bed because she has the deliria), and the date of her cure is moved up.

     Lena waits patiently for Alex to save her otherwise she will kill herself so that not to be cured. Thankfully for Lena, Alex does save her, and they head for the border on his motorcycle. Pursued by helicopters and men with guns, Lena scales the fence (which separated Portland and the Wilds) to escape. But Alex doesn't make it. He's shot and captured by the Regulators. He orders Lena to run... run into the Wilds, she does (straight for the sequel).

     The very last words in the book are: "I love you. Remember. They cannot take it". These were also Lena's mother's last words to her. In my opinion, Lena was speaking to Alex, letting him know that she'll always love him no matter what.

My own ending

     They tried to run away but won’t make success. They were caught and separated. Lena would be sent to her procedure so that to be cured from love. Alex would be sent to the Crypts. It would be the ending. Then, in the sequel (Pandemonium) she will be trying to find her mother and save Alex, pretending that she is indifferent for everything, persuading everyone that the procedure helped her (like her mother did)…but in fact it didn’t help.

P.S. On the one hand, very curious to see where this series goes and what ending will be; on the other hand, I have no desire to read a sequel. What am I going to do? I haven’t decide yet.