While it may feel like we're living in the waning days of pop YA sci-fi/fantasy-lit film adaptations (an era ushered in by Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone in 2001 and one that lived large throughout the 2000s), the genre, it seems, still has a few flutters of life left in it yet. The pop YA sci-fi/fantasy The Darkest Minds, directed by Jennifer Yuh Nelson and based on the novels by Alexandra Bracken, may scratch the very particular YA itch possessed by those who grew up with the genre (and who perhaps miss it), but will certainly not usher in a new, secondary post-modern wave of post-Potter YA adventures. Unless, of course, and by some wild chance, it earns hundreds of millions of dollars.
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