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Directed by | Jennifer Yuh Nelson |
Written by | Chad Hodge |
Based on | The Darkest Minds by Alexandra Bracken |
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Cinematography | Kramer Morgenthau |
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Music by | Benjamin Wallfisch |
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Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
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Running time | 105 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $34 million[1] |
Box office | $41.1 million[1] |
The Darkest Minds is a 2018 American dystopian science fiction film directed by Jennifer Yuh Nelson, written by Chad Hodge and produced by Shawn Levy and Dan Levine. The film stars Amandla Stenberg, Harris Dickinson, Mandy Moore and Gwendoline Christie. Based on Alexandra Bracken's 2012 young adult novel of the same name, it follows a group of children who are on the run from the government after obtaining superpowers due to a mysterious infection.
The Darkest Minds was released in the United States on August 3, 2018. It received negative reviews from critics and was a box-office bomb.[2]