Kissing Booth star to lead ‘super relevant’ film about beauty standards
manchestereveningnews.co.ukKissing Booth star Joey King is set to lead a dystopian but 'super relevant' film about beauty standards. Uglies is based on the best-selling 2005 book series of the same name by Scott Westerfield.
In this universe, appearance is everything. Director McG told Netflix Tudum: “Basically what happens is, you’re afforded a surgery when you turn 16 years old so you can look any way you want to look.
It’s the belief of the society that if we all look the way we want, you can eradicate conflict.” The cast also features Straight Outta Compton's Keith Powers, Stranger Things' Chase Stokes and Light as a Feather's Brianne Tju.
Tall Girl 2's Jan Luis Castellanos, The 5th Wave's Charmin Lee and Orange in the New Black's Laverne Cox round out the main cast.
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