Update on the Uglies Movie

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As I mentioned in my last post, I spent part of Friday afternoon on the phone with the Uglies movie production team. It was great to go into that conversation armed with all the suggestions you guys have been making, both here and on my Twitter feed.

So thanks for all your input. Now here’s what’s going on:

Uglies is currently optioned to be a movie, or possibly a series of movies if the first one does well. To “option” a book is Hollywood-speak for buying the exclusive right to make a movie based on it. But the buyers don’t have to make a movie. Most options never go anywhere, in fact. But it certainly means that these producers are interested.

(What happens if this group doesn’t make the film(s)? In a couple of years I have the right option the book to someone else. In other words, options have time limits.)

Where are we now? Well, there’s no script, director, or actors lined up yet. So be patient and stop asking me about casting! If there are open auditions, you’ll see it here first.

So this phone call was mostly us getting to know each other and talking about what makes Uglies special to us. Most of the conversation was me talking, which was interesting. Sometimes Hollywood folks seem compelled to tell me all about my books. But these folks listened. And when I told them about my previous post, they were dying to shoot over and read your comments. So keep them coming!

Here are some of the things I told them:

Most of you guys want unknown actors for Tally and Shay, but maybe someone famous for Dr. Cable. The producers get that, and they also understand how important casting is, given that you could break the whole theme of the film by putting the World’s Most Beautiful Actress in the starring role.

I also told them how important setting is to you guys. How the world-building, tech hoverboards, etc., have to be real. This movie should look good, and more importantly, it should look right. Excellently, it turns out that one of the producers has read Bogus to Bubbly. She also sends it along to the screenwriters they’ve been approaching. That is a Good Thing.

I told them you guys want a faithful adaptation, and they said definitely, because, as one of them put it, “The book is a movie already.” In other words, the story doesn’t have to get completely reshaped to fit the screen. (I doubt there will be any of this putting-all-three-books-into-one-movie crap.)

So what are the chances of the movie happening soon? Well, movies cost tens of millions of dollars, and nothing that requires that much money plus human creativity is ever easy to predict. But the producers did say that there’s lots of support for this project at their studio, where certain execs have been known to speak in bubble-talk. This seems like a very good sign to me.

Anyway, that’s everything I know. Watch this space for further developments. So you can stop asking me about casting calls. Seriously.

(Oh, and if you’re one of the producers reading this, don’t worry, I won’t blog every darn thing you say to me. It’s just that a lot of fans have been asking about this for a long time, and I figured it was time to give them a major update. Normally I am a master of discretion, and will only twitter what you say to me.)

2,172 thoughts on “Update on the Uglies Movie”

  2. Sounds like you mentioned all the important stuff. Good calls! Glad they listened to YOU 😀

  3. You know who would make an awesome Tally? Thora Birch. And Tilda Swinton would rock as Dr. Cable.

    I know… I know…. But yeah. Even an optioning of the book has me all atwitter.

  5. I hope they make it into a movie, but I’m definitely not going to get my hopes up. I’m glad that there is a lot of support for it in their studio, that means that, besides it having a better chance of being turned into a movie, they’re more likely to do a better job! (Or so I think.)

  6. My friends and I have said these books would make amazing movies since we read them! How exciting!

  7. This is so awesome! I can’t believe this! You need lots of people that are undiscovered or it will seem… fake. Like Twilight had Kirsten Stewart… bad move. Some of the characters like Dr.Cable could be someone famous though. Just not like you know, Miley Cyrus or something. Dont make the mistake of making everyone famous though! ( bad choices Twilight! Dont do the Jonas Bros. in your film people! )

  8. This is gonna be awesome! I’ve been waiting for this for sooo long! OMG I CANT BELIEVE THE PRODUCERS OF THE ACTUAL UGLIES MOVIE IS GOING TO SEE THIS!!! OMG!!! AND THE AUTHOR OF THE ACTUAL BOOK!! AHHH!!!!!1

  11. Congratulations, Scott! You’re awesome, and the series is so great. I hope this works out!

  13. And, in my own personal opinion, I think Angelina Jolie would be a great Dr. Cable! She’s gorgeous, but still has the scary effect to the structure!

  15. I am so excited! If the movie does go through, I’ll be right there the moment it comes out! I just hope it sticks to the story line, well, because in some movies that came out of books, like Twilight, they miss very important parts, but that is just in my opinion.
    Good luck and I hope everything works out well.

  18. This is very exciting! I hope everything goes well, Scott. *thinks maybe the Hollywood-people aren’t the soulless devils she thought they were…mostly*
    Peace.

  20. That would be awesome! I can’t wait, make sure to let us know about casting before anyone else if it all works out. My cousin would be perfect for David. I think that everyone is right and there shouldn’t be a ton of famous actors. But maybe a few could have small parts to draw people’s attention to the movie.

  22. Yay Scott-la! *cheers half heartedly* I just played like the hardest soccer game ever with like no subs and in a zillion degree metal building cuz it’s indoor soccer. *passes out* I HAD to read this post though! I’ll cheer better after a shower. Adios.

  23. Tilda Swinton would make a phenomenal Dr. Cable, I agree.

    It’s very cool to involve the fans in this. You’ll come out with a much better product. A lot of book adaptations have been disappointing to fans and lackluster to the uninitiated. Listening to what the readers look for in the movie is a big step towards remedying this, because you are infusing the movie with the same spirit that made the book so popular. The Uglies series is one I have always dreamed of seeing as a movie, because, as you said, it is a movie already. It is so easy to see it translating to the screen. The visuals alone would be worth it.

  24. OK!!
    Here’s my one piece of input:
    They practicly RUINED Twilight(dont get me started)With the line work in the trees.MAKE IT LOOK REAL!!!!!!!!

    I agree,Tally and shay and Zane and David all have to be unknown actors.

    Also=Make sure they use all they funny terms(happy-making,sad-making ect.) Choose a wrighter who will read the books FIRST,and try an add as many little hints as possible(AKA like in twilight the lie about the wolves decending-halarious)

    Ok.Thank you.I’ve had my say.

  25. Oh, I’m rereading the series again RIGHT NOW and this is exciting! I definitely think there should be unknowns for Tally and Shay and David . . . and I think it’s VERY important to know that they AREN’T pretties in the beginning!! i don’t know how the casting will work from Uglies to Pretties to Specials – in terms of the changing of Tally and Shay – but Hollywood can do wonders with make-up! Still, they can’t be like, symmetrically pretty. Though Shay is pretty, I think. David has to be attractive, but a growing on you quality. He’s got to be rough and wild, but that’s the beautiful part of him.

    They need to look 16!!!

    I think Maddy and Dr. Cable could both be known actresses, though I don’t know who exactly . . . not Nicole Kidman, she’s already tried to do it. But someone very angular. If Helen Mirren wasn’t the age she is, I would say she would be great – voice wise, especially. I think Dr. Cable’s voice is very important.

    It’s also a kind of small role, but the Boss could also be someone known . . . I always imagine a kind of heftier-gone-wild Johnny Depp. I think it’s the wild eyes and crazy hair. Or Hugh Jackman . . . though if you could get Patrick Stewart in there anywhere, I would be super happy!!! 😉

    And yeah, don’t mess with the plot! The book is an action movie already!

    So excited! And I think I would make an excellent extra . . . a ranger or a special . . . heee.

  26. I Love nicole kidman she rocks if you could find between her and agallina you would have the perfect Dr.coble. So Mary and elle are both right yay and scott~la i realy hope the movie comes out b/c then ur book would be all the crazzzz like twilight (pucking~sound– blaaaaa).

    LONG LIVE THE SMOKE!!!!! (and tally)

  28. EEEPPPP YAY!

    i think the which in The Lion the Whitch and the Wardrobe is the most perfectest actress for Dr.C

    i agree about the unknown thing for tally and her group? but on the IMBD comments for Uglies( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0986270/ ) the ppl there totally know all the right actor for everything

    and if u ned a director, soundtrack creator, actress, script writer or anything else im ssure most ppl commenting would be happy to help;D
    haha

    ditto~ LONG LIVE SMOKE

  29. I’m sooo excited…

    The casting for David and his parents will be tricky, because they have to have a clear resemblence. You HAVE to have the actors at the right ages. And use the books slang in a way that’s convincing. Scenery’s going to be important, from the city to her trip to the Smoke… I’m especially looking forward to the views on her journey. Scott should work with the people when it comes to the building designs for New Pretty Town, because it has to be distinctive and unique. Having someone who’s read Bogus to Bubbly is very good. =)

    As long as they cast unknowns for the main people, I hope they get famous people for people like Cable. I can see Jolie as her… though I would prefer Tilda Swinton.

  30. Oh my gosh, this is going to be sooooooo cool! Yay! If only all of the other books that I’ve heard are going to become movies weren’t just like being forgotten… like this was before all of a sudden finally we get some action! Now hopefully, the House of Night movie will like get started, along with the Maximum Ride one and the Warriors one…

  31. Sounds like the call when great. The people you talked to seem to have really understood the important parts of an adaptation to keep it like you and all us fan-freaks visioned:P Congrats on a good phone call. I hope it gets picked up and put into production soon! I can’t wait for more information:)

    And thanks so much for taking the time to listen to all of us cyber-scream at you about what we wanted!

  32. Suggestions…

    Be sure the events in the (possible) movie happen in the same order as the events in the book. Too many movies have things out of order because the directors think it’ll look better.

    About casting… for sure, unknowns for all the mains, including David. Try not to have major actresses for Dr. Cable or Maddy, but not a complete unknown either.

    Hope this gets off the ground!

  34. And as far as who could play Dr. Cable, I do like the idea of Angelina Jolie or Tilda Swinton, but I think they may be a bit… old? Like, I’m not sure, but I always imagined Dr. Cable as being younger, just being extremely intimidating (which I’m sure we all noticed). I would think that someone like Keira Knightley would work, almost. Something about her doesn’t quite fit, but that’s just my example for now.

    What about Sienna Guillory? She played Arya in Eragon and Jill Valentine in Resident Evil: Apocalypse. Google her. I think she could work, though she isn’t overly famous.

  35. WHEN IT DOES BECOME A MOVIE! (yes i do have that much fathe in it) Im gana stand in the street screaming! and im gana dress up like a special. 🙂 i think the uglies would be one of the best moviez in the world:)

  37. This just makes me nervous. These never usually turn out well. I don’t mean to be the negative one here, but think about. Really think about it…

  38. WOW! Congratulations Scott! That’s so cool that their really considering it!
    I hope if they end up making Uglies into a film, its as good as the book, coz the books are FANTASTIC!!
    GOOD LUCK!!

  39. I understand what you mean, Remy. Obviously it’s going to lose something that it had from the books, but that doesn’t mean it can’t be enjoyable. I think most movies that were made from books are really good, even if they aren’t like the books. It’s ’cause their movies. Books and movies just can’t be the same. If you look at the movies just as movies, not as the books (which can be very hard), then they’re usually pretty good.

    I’m pretty nervous with you, though. Even if it’s a good movie, I’d be really mad if it was ruined from the books.

  41. I don’t think Dr. Cable should be played by Nicole Kidman, Angelina Jolie, or Tilda Swinton. I mean, taking the evil lady from other book-based movies is kinda lame if you ask me, and Jolie just doesn’t fit. Like Sydner, I kinda pictured Cable being a little younger than them, but not as young as Keira Knightley. I’m not very good at fantasy casting, so I don’t have anyone in mind, but I know I don’t like those four actresses for that part.

    CLICK MY NAME!!!!! 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀

  44. Thanks so much for sharing all of this info with us, Scott-la! I love how connected you are with your fans, and how you appreciate our input.

    I can’t wait to see progress on this film!

  47. Oh, I also want to say that, back in 06 when there were first words said on the subject of an Uglies movie, BEFORE Kristen Stewart became Isabella Swan, and when no one really did know her, I thought she would make an excellent Tally. I even remember coming across a fan made Uglies movie poster with her in the sunflower field in The Messengers. I fell in love with her as Tally. BEFORE TWILIGHT.

    To be honest, I was a little bummed that Twilight got her. Because I do agree she can’t be Tally now. It just wouldn’t work. She’s not unknown anymore. But I still think she’s an amazing actress and under different circumstances, would have been perfect for Tally.

  48. eva-la: yeahhhh, dr cable. the witch from narnia. she gives a very good mental picture as evil. one of the few faces i remember.
    colin-la: huh, well, kristen stewart…i just, she doesnt seem to hav a lot of like emotion. that sorta bothers me…
    anyway, i hope that hollywood does a good job on casting.

  49. yay, more time to type.
    sorry guys, that last comment wz a bit rushed.
    as i was saying…
    i think that the White Witch from Narnia would be awesome as Dr. Cable. u kno, cuz shes all, well, cold and sharp looking. i dont know, but she gives me the chills. they did an awesome makeup job.
    but kristen stewart…i saw her in 2 movies: Speak and Twilight, and if you’ve seen really good actresses, like Dakota Fanning, Angelina Jolie, Nicole Kidman, etc. They have a lot of feeling and emotions that actually suit the role. Kristen just looks sort of…haunted? depressed? i dont know…cuz i read twilight several times, and bella does not seem suicidal/depressed/hating the world. in the movie, even wen shes with edward she seems sad. and even though i havent read uglies in a couple of months, i dont remember tally as, particularily gloomy. no offense to u, kristen, if ur reading this. in some moments, u captured Melinda Sordino’s solitary feeling well.
    As scott said, I also hope that they dont cast someone completely gorgeous as tally or shay. and they better not switch actors for pretties, if there is a pretties movie.
    i heard that one of the people from the eragon movie bought the rights? hmmmm, eragon…well, theres no dragons in uglies, so there shouldnt be a problem with that.
    and have any of u ever been on the skylink in the dallas airport?
    its like, fake hoverboarding. its like a metrolink, but not as many ppl, and they hav wide turns. ok, i kno, im weird, but theres the air conditioning on and it feels like wind. writing that made me want to go on a roller coaster…knott’s…

  51. the RIGHT AGE of the characters like the other posts said how the ACTORS in HARRY POTTER GREW UP in the film and that was sooooo AWESOME and RARE….. so PLEASE make tally,shay,david the RIGHT AGE..and NOT some twenty-year old…now the UGLIES MOVIE can UNQUIE like the books(!!) and WAY BETTER 🙂

  52. and… i want dr.cable actor do have a cruel..sort of cold and hard face but that can always be very nice…deceving

    SOMEONE START A PETITON!

  54. I love you Scott-la I love you! Your awsome! Thank you for not being discreet. I CANNOT WAIT! By the way..if there isn’t a movie Uglies fans across the world will start a riot.

  55. this gets me so unbelievably exited

    thanks for bringin up our points! :}

    and i agree with UgliesPrettiesSpecialsExtras

  56. Yay for movie update. 😀 This makes me happy. I need to see them follow through with this. Seriously.

  57. omigosh i really hope they actually make the movie! it seems like they’re gonna!!!!!!! *does happy dance* 😆

  59. Yay!!!!!!!!!!!! I know it’s gonna be a while from now but i just can’t wait!!!!!!!!!!!! I even watch the fan made trailers on You Tube thinking about them being on tv!!!!!!!!!!!! Yay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  60. i think i know the perfect actor of David
    his name is Shane West
    he was the main character in A walk to Remember and has been in a few others
    he’s a great actor who isn’t too well known, but with his skills- he should be!

  62. i definetly agree that tilda swinton would be an awesome actress for dr. cable!
    i dont want the actresses that play tally, shay or david to be well known either, because that would ruin the movie for me if it was some girl from gossip girl or 90210. i also hope that they arent stick thin or almost anorexic looking, because in the book they make fun of the magazines with the skinny people in them.

  63. thank you so much for the update! yay! this sounds like one book that Hollywood won’t completely trash. ^_^

  66. oh and i no this person named rachel who would be an awesome shay 😀 or at least an extra part 😀

  68. Omg I can not wait to see this movie in theaters!!!!!!!
    I think it is going to rock, the book is the script. I hope that they dont change it too much. And they better do so auditioning in Orlando cuz I want to be apart of this amazing coming soon movie!

  70. i’d like to be in the cast…
    i wonder what they’re doing for the soundtrack.
    hopefully some all american rejects, fall out boy, coldplay…?
    please dont put jordin spark’s No Air…

  72. #14- I totally agree with you….when I saw the golden compass I was like woa she looks special….but then I saw that Tilda person and I think she looks more special…tuff call, but those two are my top choices

  73. i don’t think that DR.CABLE SHOULD BE THE SAME ACTRess as the narnia lady…i think that there is a caring part about dr cable, and no offense, but i don’t like that actress. she is a little bit tooo spooky to me. i read speak, well parts of it and never saw the movie, but it seems like that is the only role that kristen stewart is good for. i never read twilight-and i DO NOT intend to- but yeah, that’s a good point. and i really hope that the eragon ppl didn’t buy the rights!!!!! i LOVED the eragon book, but the movie was so awful that i practiclly cried!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! my horse is lame, she has a HUGE cut, like half an inch deep, right on her fetlock joint. wich means that she may be unridable for the WHOLE summer!!! i know half(or more) of u don’t know what im talking about, but hey, if u do, congrats, if u dont, well then look it up(or not). im sorry, but im a little psyco tonight bacuz my best friend(boyfriend) just left for camp for 2 weeks without any phone or internet! he will miss out 3 week anniversary! what a great start to the summer.

  75. OMG!!!!! I really hope its soon!!! I loved the books!! It’d be AMAzing to see on screen. I just hope the movie will stay close to the book. Because if not that’d be BOGUS!!! OMG The movie will be so bubbly!!

  76. its a TERRIBLE START!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i can’t ride my horse, she is in constant suffering, and i can’t see my boyfriend for 2 weeks. life sucks!

  80. Movies never turn out like the books…unless the author works closely with the director and makes the vision that was in their head come to life for the fans. But not always. Stephenie Meyer did just that and look what happend there. *shudder*

  83. This is great. The Uglies series is just one of those sets that has me all abuzz with excitement, that kind just HAVE to be made into movies. Alot of books OUGHT to be made into movies, but sometimes to do so would be just wrong.
    These ones are debatable, because Tally changes throughout the series, at least in appearance. But you’d have to keep the actor the same throughout or it would just be weird.

    I agree that the major characters [Tally, Shay, David] should be the RIGHT AGE and/but NOT WELL KNOWN.

    Hmm…if they do make all three, it will be interesting to see what they do to show the effects of the operations [Ugly>>Pretty>>Special (>>Pretty/Ugly)].

  84. Yes, SMeyer had a big part in making Twilight, In my opinion the movie turned out better then the book, it still sucked ass but it was better then Meyers crap. The actors played the characters spot on, emotionless and boring with a tad of creeppy pedo thrown in. They didn’t have much to go with from the start. Lets just admit it. Twilight is not a good book……AAAAA HARRY POTTER!!!….sorrey comercial just came on…..anywho……what was I talking about again?……oh ya…..Twilight sucks end of story…..I so wish That Tilda person wasn’t in Narnia first she would have made a perfect Dr. Cable….Nicole Kidman would still be good though….besides Golden compass was like nothing…people wouldn’t even notice.

  85. It is so cool that the producer peoples want to know what the fans “us”, want.

    Can’t wait— but I will have too 🙁

  86. I think that it would be great to make the whole uglies series into a movie. I just hope it is better acting and better special effects than Twilight.(no offense twilight fans but come on) i fthey can do better I will see it but if they don’t make the series into a movie no big deal besides the book is ALWAYS better than the movie………

  87. Okay, so in my mind they HAVE to make this movie. I know they don’t really have to, and realistically there’s quite a chance that they won’t, but they’ve just gotten some very devoted fans’ hopes up pretty darn high–well, at least mine.
    It’s awesome that they all seem so interested. All the discussions just making me feel like re-reading the series again…
    Honestly, I don’t think any of us can think of much more to add to that mile-long suggestion post.

  88. I have my fingers crossed for this movie! Uglies is one Of those books that just plays out like a movie In my head anyways, BUT it needs to be made with lots of time, accuracy, and care! It can NOT just be mashed up into a 1hour30min movie. That just wouldn’t do. Detail is very important, and I still have yet to see a movie that comes close to being as good, if not better, than the book itself. Let’s hope for the best 😉

    Also- Scott should play a huge role in creating the movie. What better way would there be for creating the perfect book to movie production? It would be amazing if he ended up writing the script!

  89. I would watch one. Hopefully it would do well. Your books take place in a future with extreme cosmetic surgery. You would need expert makeup and costume designers along with some CG animation I’m sure. I’m looking forward to this possible movie! Good luck.

  92. If I’m correct Fox Searchlight optioned it, no?
    (I almost said Satelight as in the animation studio in Japan, I’ve been watching too much Shugo Chara Doki xD)

    I just hope they don’t make it into the next Eragon (nuff said) or Golden Compass (what happened to the atheism? the ending of the book?). Or Twilight (though the book was awful to begin with…).

  93. i agree with all of u on twilight! it was a terrible book, i didn’t even bother to go see the movie! i just REALLY pray that it doesn’t turn into the dark is rising(or the seeker), they just took the basic idea of the book, then changed every thing to make it more appealing to the teen audience, changed the name, and pretty much ruined it. so far, harry potter has been the closest to the books, and i think that the movies are so good becuz:
    1. The actors were the right age(or about that) when they started the movies, and you get to watch them grow just like the charachters
    2.the actors really portray the charachters well
    3. they don’t worry too much about squashing it in(well see when it gets into some of the huge books)
    4. animation is great
    5. great setting
    and i also know that J.K Rowling pretty much controlled the movie, scott-la, i hope that u know how to be assertive! because if you want uglies to be turned into a really good movie, i think that you are gonna have to step right in and make it happen.
    also make sure that they make alot of t-shirts, bags, computer games, et cetra et cetra.

  94. oh yeah, and ping-la[says hi back]: I LOVE YOUR NAME!!!!!! i have reread parts of specials so many times that i practiclly know them by heart*i know im a geek*

  95. oh wait! when i was watching house yesterday there was an actress that looked like she could maybe be an extra pretty, although she may be too old…

  96. I have read two of your books recently, but I would like to read more, but they are not traduce into Spanish.

    Would you tell me when they will be out?

    I am waiting impatient to know how does the thriologhy Uglies ends.

  97. The stunts for sure have to be good. As in like amazing!!

    Ping-la [says hi back] and pony-la are certainly right about some things. (although I loved Twilight… the movie did suck though) They are right about the fact that if too much is cut out of Uglies then the movie will suck. There’s no way a movie can be good if it doesn’t follow the book.

  98. Ping-la [says hi back]: I read somehwre (IMDB maybe?) that they watered down Golden Compass to ease people in, and that if (not sure if they’re still doing it) they make the second one, it’s going to be more true to the book. 🙂

    I think you guys are forgetting the best book-turned-movie. LORD OF THE RINGS!!! I’ve never read the books (fantasy isn’t really my thing), but my friend is a huge LOTR fan, and she said that it was *really* close to the book, and that they only cut out a few scenes for time (considering how long it was, we should thank them for that). 😀
    So, instead of saying “I hope it’s not as bad as…” let’s say, “I hope it’s as good as LOTR and Harry Potter.”

  100. my friends and i are super excited about the movie and cant wait for it to happen and we will be bummed if it dont but it should!and we can tell your trying your best to make it happen !!!

  103. Pony-la: I know who this is….Kathryn! (Unless it’s someone who used the same name…then sorry) but if this is Kathryn, you don’t like Twilight, cause it was probably as big as Harry Potter, and you are the biggest Harry Potter fan I have ever met. Well, Sarah, likes both Harry Potter and Twilight…so do I. So, I don’t get why you can’t open up a little more. Like, maybe, stop saying stuff about it. You don’t have to like it, just don’t say stuff and I won’t say anything about Harry Potter.
    Anyways, back to the real subject here: I am so glad that Scott talked to them! I am soooo thankful, because he mentioned all of my points! YAY! Now I have complete confidence that this movie will be AH-MAZING!

  105. Ok so the effects have to be good! (or else) The charecters need to be picked out right. Also It Scott westerfeld is reading this please email me i have a great idea for a next book!!! 🙂

  106. you know just because someone says they don’t like the Twilight books doesn’t mean it’s because they are Harry Potter fans. Infact, that makes no sense at all. Some people don’t like the books because they are poorly writen. Some people hold high standards of books and Twilight just doesn’t meet them. Harry Potter, as we all know is a wonderful book that will be remembered and loved for years to come. Where as Twilight is just a fad that will die out in a few years. But I’m gald you said something. I was begining to wonder where all the Twi-hards had gone. For a while there we were all anti-Twilight. I was begining to think you all just left scott’s blog. That would have been a shame. You also give me a laugh. It’s fun arguing with Twilight fans 😀

  107. Pony-la: u watch house? awesome! i thot i wz the only one. do u mean thirteen or cameron or some1 else?

  108. i dont think twilight is bad. how is it bad?
    harry potter i also luv, but still, r u guys just anti perfect guys or something?

  109. Thank you for mentioning what us fans want! I really appericiate it! I wrote several comments and am personally thankful for all you are trying to do for us fans. I think you did well on telling the producers what WE want and I can’t wait for the movie to come out.

    (P.S. The angey mob of die-hard fans is growing so if anyone screws this up the consiquences will not be good! As the Specials say, “I don’t want to hurt you , but I will if I have to.”)

  111. I am so watching the movie. And if possible, I would wanna try for casting of this movie. 😀

    This will probably make box office. And YEAH! I am a big fan(:

  112. *dances* So happy and excited!! I will totally see this movie, ALMOST no matter what. Haha. Too bad I’m too old for a part. 🙁 Being Shay would be awesome. BUT I IS EXCITED.

  113. Okay, so Kristina-la: It’s pretty funny that you said that. My friends who hate Twilight don’t hate it because it was poorly written, they hate it because they are afraid that Twilight will be as big as Harry Potter, which i don’t know if it will be or not. I know that they are Harry Potter fans, and obviously you don’t know my friends, so you wouldn’t know whether they were or not. And as for Twilight dying out in a few years, what are you a fourtune teller to? Do you see the future? No, I don’t think so. So, why don’t we wait and let time do it’s thing. Nobody knows how things are going to end up, so don’t tell me or anybody else, that the future will end a certain way, because it may or may not.

    Oh and sorry Pony-la: I got confused. My friend is a huge horse fan, and you sounded like her, so I mixed you guys up! So sorry on that one! =[

  114. Kristina-la: Well I’m glad to have given you a good laugh. Because you make me laugh too, fourtune-teller.

  115. All this news has made me even more excited about the movie! It seems like the producers are genuinely understanding about how you want to set up this movie, and I love that they’re open to fan suggestions! Here’s hoping Uglies does make it to theaters.

    Please, please, PLEASE make sure the characters are played by people their ages, or at least people who look close to their ages. I’ve seen movies where actors are supposed to be playing teens and it’s cringe-worthy watching them try because they don’t look the age at all.

  116. Alex-wa:

    I had read Maximum Ride as well and I think that it’s cool it’s going to be made into a movie too. However, I think that the progress for Maximum Ride is even faster than Uglies seeing that they had already gotten choosen the important people for this movie.

    See below for details:

    *Information taken from Wikipedia*

    James Patterson will be the executive producer. Avi Arad, one of the producers of Spider-Man, X-Men and other Marvel movies, will also produce alongside Steven Paul. In an interview with James Patterson, it was revealed that Arad has already planned out the first two movies. On August 7, 2008, it was announced that Columbia Pictures bought the screen rights to the franchise. Catherine Hardwicke (Twilight) will direct the first movie, with Don Payne (Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer) writing the script. The movie is scheduled for a 2010 release. It was posted on the author’s site under Max’s Blog that Kristen Stewart (Female lead in Twilight) is likely to audition for Maximum, since director Catherine Hardwicke stated in an interview that she would be soliciting Stewart to audition for a role (though this does not mean she will definitely get the role).

    I am more excited about Uglies being made into a movie than Maximum Ride. in my opinion, the story for Maximum Ride isn’t as good as Uglies. It started to unravel as more books comes out. The story isn’t as solid as Uglies.

    To me Uglies is worth 4.5/5 stars while Maximum Ride is worth 3.5/stars. =D

    This is just my opinion. =P

  118. u know what i just realized? even if scott-la writes the script, it all depends on how the actors portray the charachters, and what the directors do with the script. but having scott-la write the scropt would at least ensure they don’t squash or leave out important details…

  119. riva-la: no, it was just some random girlfriend of the dad of the kids…and imdb was no help

  120. twilight was bad becuz it had no plot. it was just a stupid romance series that just got famous becuz alot of teenage girls got sucked into it. only real people with brains can comprehend such a great series as uglies

  122. NOOO!!!! Kristen Stewart is not allowed to be Max. Max is supposed to be like fifteen!!! SHe doesn’t look fifteen!!! SHe will screw that movie up the butt!!! GET SOMEONE ELSE!!!

  123. Emily-wa13- Have your friends read Twilight?
    If not I think you should tell them to read the book. Why you ask? Why is a anti telling someone to read the books? Well I think that no one should really say anything bad about something unless they have actually experienced it.(which is ironic because I really dont like to try new things, but in books I do)
    I have actually read Twilight and I didn’t like it. It’s not because it’s “getting” as popular as Harry Potter because thats deffinatly not why, but the last time I checked the Harry Potter series has sold over 400 million books, and JK Rowling is pretty much the richest person in England. Well anyway, reasons why I dislike Twilight: The Plot. Well truth be told, there really isn’t a plot at all. Through out the whole book, oh I’m sorrey for 300 pages it is ONLY about Bella saying how beautiful Edward is and how much she loves him. The plot only changes at the end when there is a little action that was built up, but then is made out to be nothing. Meyer likes to avoid action all together. Her plot is so shallow and not there that I just couldn’t get into it.
    Second reason why Twilight sucked is: anti-feminism. I’m sure most of you have herd at one point someone say that “SMeyer has set feminism back 100 years.” This is true. This book promotes girls being helpless and in need of a man at every second. It is pretty much saying that girls can’t do anything for themselves, that they are useless without their man. Bella is always getting her self into trouble. Not because she is “Clutzy” but because she has no intelligence what so ever. This book has made teenage girl think that they NEED a man like Edward to save them. This scares me because girls should want to stick up for themselves. If girls didn’t stick up for things we would not be where we are today.
    A big reason i really didn’t like the books is the characters. They are all flat and have no personallity. Meyer just doesn’t know how to make a well developed character. Lets start with the main character. Bella is a mary sue, plain and simple. We all know it. Just to re-cap a mary sue has no flaws(no being flawed does not mean being just clutzy)they are a wish-fulfillment of the author, the author favours the character too much(most believe Meyer thinks of bella as herself) and says how amazing the character is over and over again. A Mary Sue character is usually beautiful and smart. This character usually falls in love with the authors favourite characters and subs all the rest. A Mary sue is a whiney whimpy female character that can’t do anything but get herself into trouble that the romantic intrest has to save her from(sound like Bella yet?) A Mary sue is usually created by starting out authors(Meyer) I would Talk about Edward at this point but their are so many things wrong with him I don’t know where to begin.
    I’ll just finish with saying that watching someone sleep is not an act of love it’s just creepy and pedofilish. No one should think otherwise.

  124. Dhalia-wa: i never even thought about thaT! but, yes, the lord of the rings movies were REALLY

  127. ok just to say, i think that tilda swidman would not make a good special. to me she just looks like an old lady who has had too much plastic surgery. maybe, if they did an Artemis Fowl movie, she would be a good Opal whatever her name is. I think that Angelina Jolie(i think i spelled it right) would make a good Dr. Cable, becuse she can have such an evil thing about her, and cable is described as”a beautiful woman half transformed into a wolf”, and if you did some effects on her then she could look special.

  129. I do think one of the most important things is it to have “ugly” people playing the Uglies. That doesn’t mean I think people that look normal are ugly- it’s just the title. Give them spots, cuts and greasy hair! I think the whole movie would be a lie without this to begin with. It must be so great to talk to producers who wanna turn your book into a movie! Hopefully it all turns out well.

  130. Kristina-la:

    I totally agree with you! I used to love the Twilight books, but when I read the last one, I stopped and took a good look at the series. I think this book is only for a little time to read fluffy romance during a rainy day. Also, I worry for any girl that takes these books seriously.
    For example, who would ever want to be a mother at eighteen? Wouldn’t you like to wait a few years before committing the responsibilities of raising a child? SM put a bad example in the last book. I know Bella became a vampire (duh) and she could go back to college later on AND she was married, but it was still an improper example, which is why I recommend only to read this book only when you want to read boring romance. No offense to any people who enjoyed the series, but I just wanted to state my concern and opinion over this.

  132. oh my. this is so excited!i literally can’t wait!!! i had to hide the books so id stop thinking about them.[didn’t work so well tho]
    well i totally support you and hope you keep us updated on everything.but maybe not everything.=p
    oh,i definately like the “unknown” as the leads.it should be a “ugly” but then again your movies,you deciede =] keep us posted on casting.

    good luck!

  133. so,just wondering, is casting going to in more places than one? small places..like rhode island,maine,texas,tennessee[=)]?because some people,[if its an open audition] would love to try and think theyd be perfect.like truely seriously and honestly.just think about it.=]

  134. and open auditions will make it easier to find people the right age.like girls who are exactly 16.=]

    ok last post promise.=p

  137. Hi! I’m Rhianna Lee Dupla, I’m 13 and live in Hershey, PA.

    I read all of your books like 3 times and my fave is Specails! I reallly want to be a specail with non-human abilities! I love tally, and scaryly I look like tally exactly on the cover of Secails (except her face is flawless, I only have a few small tiny iny pimples<– Hardly noticible unless u have a close up LOL)

    Whenever you might get casting for specails (if u make the movie) I would love to cast for Tally! I feel as if our personalities are so much alike that it is almost as if you were thinking of me

    scary eh?

    BEst wishes and hugs and kisses

    -Rhi <3 ;]]

  138. I am so excited for these awesome books to be turned into a movie! They are so creative, I love reading them! Just make sure when auditions are being held, that everyone knows, because I would love to audition for the movies!
    Thanks!!

  139. Scott-la, I don’t know if you know the song Naive (by The Kooks, covered by Lily Allen, a version I like better) but it has the lyrics:

    How could this be done
    By such a smiling sweetheart
    Oh and your sweet and pretty face
    In such an ugly way, someone so beautiful…

    which hardcore reminds me of Uglies. Especially that last bit. Can you say Uglies movie soundtrack?

  141. “In other words, the story doesn’t have to get completely reshaped to fit the screen. (I doubt there will be any of this putting-all-three-books-into-one-movie crap.)”

    — that’s what they did in the Series Of Unfortunate Events. I hated it!!!!!!!!

    And if they DO make the Series Movies, I would probably like Pretties or Specials the best. Probably Pretties cuz I wanna see all the mischief of the floating ice rink haha!!!!!!

  142. OH! I forgot! You have to get the outfits right. Like dorm uniforms, The Smoke knitted kind of thing… etc. Oh, and like Lizzy-wa said: the soundtrack.

  143. Kristina-la: Yes they have. And you know what? You’re right. Twilight has no plot. Which is why I prefer Uglies over anything, basically. Uglies does have more action in it.
    Some of Meyer’s characters are shallow, but I don’t think that she infers through Bella, that girls don’t have flaws. One of the things you mentioned, is that a Mary Sue is beautiful and smart, correct? I support you on the whole smart thing. Yes Bella, is too smart, in my opinion, but as far as beauty, she has tons of flaws, so i wouldn’t exactly call her a Mary Sue. And, she has no confidence what so ever.
    And also, you said that Meyer infers that girls need a man right? i don’t think she infers that nessicarily. Yes, she infers that through Bella, but the whole story is a romance novel, so obviously that would be a main hookup for the characters falling in love. See where I’m coming from?
    You’ve made soem very good points, and I think, that so have I.
    So you see, we both agree that Twilight isn’t a very good book, okay? I started this whole thing, because I love to tease my friend. (Even though it turned out not to be her and I mixed her up with another girl. Oops haha.)

  144. lol nice. i wish my friends liked to read 🙁

    I just like to ask you one thing
    besides being clumsy, what flaws does Bella actually have?
    if you can name more then 10 that are pretty correct I will agree with you

  145. To Caitlin Ryser:

    Totally agree. I don’t think that Kristen Stewart is suitable for Max AT ALL. If she gets the role, she will just ruin the movie.

    To Kristina-la:

    Right on. I think that the people who actually love Twilight is due to the reason that they didn’t have read tons of book out there and they can’t compare Twilight with better books such as Uglies. =P

    To Colin-la:

    The lyrics seems incredibly fitting for Uglies movie. =P I will listen to the song when I reached home.*I am in school now.*

  146. can be please stop taking about twilight or anything else..besides supporting this possible movie?

  147. Wow, im so hyped for this to become a movie. I read this book when it first came out and recently i lent it to one of my friends, now it seems every girl in my grade is reading it. Haha, thanks for the update Scott, good to see you actually interact with your fans 🙂
    Looking forward to the movie 🙂

  148. I forced my friend Scott to read it. Weird I started calling him Scott-la just like you Scott-la! Then forced my friend Alyssa to read it. Started calling her Lissy-wa. Then forced all my friends to read it. Then I got it to be put in the library. Now most of the svhool has read it. All because my sister firced me to read it! Also if they make a Pretties movie when Tall and Zane take the pills and kiss the should play Breakfree. Also I think they should make there own songs for the Uglies movie. And Shays pigtails must be in there! Can’t wait for movie! Jaeda-la.

  149. Emily-wa: it’s ok that u thought i was someone else. i didn’t even understand the comment that you wrote about twilight being bigger than harry potter or whatever! im not easily offended, most horse people aren’t. becuz in the horse world, everyone has their own opinions and ways, and everyone thinks that their opinions are the one and only correct ones in the universe. So as a kid growing up in this world, im pretty used to people saying things about how you are wrong, they are right, and that you are absolutely terrible for doing the”wrong thing”. Just to let you animal lovers know, the vet came and saw that she had an even bigger cut across the sole of her hoof, he wrabbed up her hoof in a huge”bootie”. my mom moved her to a safer barn, where it is less muddy in the fields and she doesn’t have to be cooped up in the little run in shed. we think that she got cut on a piece of glass in an old creek in her field, or cut up on some sharp piece of farm junk in her fields. im sorry to rant on about this…

  150. ooh! when they are tally and zane are stuck in zane’s room during the rain, they should play Halo by beyonce.

  151. I have one thing to say PLEASES DONT MAKE IT REALY GIRLY!!! because im a guy and i know its from a girls point of veiw but dont make it a chick flick then i would be super mad. Tats all i have to say oh and also

    ~~~ LONG LIVE THE SMOKE~~~
    (and tally)

  153. Great so everything’s set i’m sure you have a lot of money from the book and the special effects take time so i shouldn’t hold my breath. Can’t wait though!

  154. I read that book and though it “The pretty comitee strikes back” has nothing to do with Uglies it has alot of the same concepts like be who you are and don’t change just for your friends and all that good moral stuff.

  155. I am so excited they are thinking of making the uglies series into movies. It sounds like if they go ahead with it they are going to do a good job of it since they took the time to listen to you and hear what the fans had to say. I’m sure the movies would do great at the box office.

  156. I agree with Pony-la on Angelina Jolie being Dr.Cable. Cuz she has this dark beauty that would match on Dr.Cable. Also, maybe Steven Strait (THE COVENANT) could play David? IDK thats just the person that kinda looked like David to me!

  158. To the people talking about Maximum Ride (sorry, can’t remember all your names): Kristin Stewert could have played Max around the time of Zathura, but now she’s too old. I have no idea who could play Max now. I really hope Hardwick doesn’t screw up the movie!!!

    UglieForLife: I totally agree with you! I would be sooo upset if it was turned into a chick flick!!! Chick flicks = BLEH!!!

  159. yes chick flicks suck….well the really bad ones anyway….some are tolerable.

    !!!!!!I saaw Transformers today!!!!!……SO GOOD!

  160. OH MY GOSH! IM SO EXCITED!! I can’t wait to see it……………………………… (Sorry, but i think Zane should be Robert Patterson) 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀 I CANT WAIT!!! 😀 Im almost done with specials, so….. 😀

  161. i LOVE this series. i was about to call it a trilogy but then i remembered Extras was added. i’m sooooooo excited b/c i loved all your books and Uglies was amazing! oh and don’t listen to Ant-la!!! please, the last thing we need is an ugly guy (robert p.) to be a pretty. that wouldn’t make sense. any way i love all your books!! the only one i havent read is the risen empire but i cant find it anywhere.

  162. Kristina-la: 1. Attitude. I’m not sure if this counts, but you might realize that Bella is a brat. She’s got such a crappy attitude and judges people harshly. 2. Her appearance. She’s always describing herself, and how she’s not beautiful at all. (Although she does become beautiful when she turns into a vampire but that doesn’t count) 3. She’s a clean freak. I don’t know if you remember, but there is one point in the book where she is being impatient, so she cleans the whole house, and makes sure she gets practically every spot. 4. She makes people feel self-confident for the wrong reasons. For instance, she’s always giving Mike the impression that he might have a chance with her. Same for Jacob when she’s pretending to flirt with him. He thinks that there might be something between them, even though there isn’t(at first). 5. She lies. She lied to her mother about wanting to move to Forks. She lied about going to Jacksonville or Seattle(I don’t remember which) the weekend of the spring dance. 6. She’s always trying to take care of everybody else around her, even if they don’t need to be taken care of. She’s young and she doesn’t have to take on full responsibilty at her age. 7. She’s selfish. When she wants to be a vampire, she only thinks about what she wants. She doesn’t think about how much it would hurt Edward, or how much Charlie or Renee would miss her. Or Jacob. 8. She’s horrible at sports. That’s a main one. I mean being bad at sports isn’t a bad thing, but I consider it a flaw about Bella. 9. She doesn’t really like to try new things. I know that’s a personality thing, but if you think about it, Alice is always trying to dress her up, and Bella won’t even willingly try changing up her look for once. 10. She’s a whiney brat. If she doesn’t get what she wants, she whines to get self-pity for her.

    So you see, Bella is not a Mary Sue.

    Pony-la: Thanks for being so understanding.

    Marisol: I totally agree with you!

  163. Robert Pattison would
    kill the movie…hes already to
    famous for (twilight)
    and yes i agree wit Scott
    dat ther should be new
    actors for the movie and the
    setting is very important to. (=
    but i hav someone perfect for Zane
    im(serious) >>>Matt Lanter<<<, he is kind of a new actor but he has the perfect look for Zane. soo Zane Fans
    go google him r somethin and
    tell me wat u think.

    TEAM ZANE!! <3

  164. I personally think they should cast new actors/actresses for the movie… Like people who have never been in a movie before. (obviously there would be many auditions going on… but still.) It would be a good oportunity for people to get a start =)

    I’ve been looking for casting calls in my area for a LONG TIME and haven’t found any =(

  166. oh ONE more thing yes
    Angelina Jolie would make a
    really good Dr.Cable or i was
    also thinkin about Megan Fox
    or the terminator girl from
    the third movie idk wats her name
    so ya….haha anywayz the cast for the other characters..i dont know haha

  167. Emily-wa13:
    1- 1&10 are the same things D=<
    2- Wouldn’t you do the same things if you were in her position? If you loved a person wouldn’t you do everything in your power to be with them? If your attitude was “stubborn,” could you /really/ do anything to stop it?

  169. Producers actually listening and agreeing with the author? Quite promising.

    I’ve been waiting years for news of the actual movie progress to be made- instead of sitting around with a circle of friends dreaming up actors and cutting and splicing scenes from other movies together. Even if they don’t make it into a movie, at least I’ll know that there was, at one time, a glimmer of hope. If it becomes a movie, I’m definitely going to show up. I mean, read all of the books and not make an attempt to see the movie? Lame. Just. Lame.

    And I see a lot of arguing about Twilight going on in the comments. . . . . . Guys, let it die. Twilight isn’t even worth fighting over.
    :]

  170. people dont forget that Zane NEEDS to have black hair
    no blondies(although I do like them blond) or brown….thats David

  171. Kristina-la: Very true… we should take that into consideration =)
    -x-
    …and twilight changed my life, so shush your face =X

  172. Random question?
    Was Shay ever given a last name? O.o
    I have to go look through Uglies for it…

  175. Emily- I’ll give you some of those because I do think that about her….but I think that is just how we see her and not how Meyer wanted her to be like.

    first of all #2 She was always beautiful, she was just too retarted to figure that out.

    #3 being a clean flreak is not really a flaw…its a personallity trait that could get annoying…so what your really saying is that shes annoying.

    #4 I really dont agree with this one. Its not a flaw. Its a trait that Meyer made “trying” to make Bella seem like the perfect helpful girl, but it backfired and made her seem, once again annoying.

    #5 being horrible at sports is not a flaw. Being good a sports is a gift. So if someone is bad at them, they just wern’t given that specific gift. Its not a flaw.

    but yes I’ll give you a couple of those because I thought that from the begining too.

  176. Twilight changed your life? How so?
    -x-
    I now look at life and love in a different way… It was strage, how hooked I was on the books, even though I knew I shouldn’t have been… I read New Moon cover-to-cover in less than 12 hours… I respect the feeling that was between them, even though it was fictional. I respect love more, and I think it made me feel a bit lonely =P I’ve never had a boyfriend =P

  178. *points to comment post about halfway through the page*
    It says Sarah-la… but thats not me =)

    Haha… “I really dont like to try new things” -Kristina-la
    You just said that it was bad that Bella didn’t like to try new things… but there you are, saying you don’t like it either =O

  180. haha UGLIES changed my LIFE lol
    ANYWAYS……..
    oh by the way..whoever said
    that thing about black hair
    they could dye it U KNOW
    id ont think an actor has perfffect
    black hair lol
    heres sum pics ..enjoy (= Zane:
    Matt Lanter

  181. I am so excited for this new movie!and i think william mosley would be great for david except that he has blonde hair :(and ya twilight characters are NOT for uglies…they are for twilight only.that is that .and i do think tilda swinton would be good for dr.cable.and for tally i think the girl on the cover of uglies would be good.and the one who played tally in the uglies teaser trailor would be good to.but i dont really care who plays who as long as they do a good job and the effects arent cheesey…well i sorta do care but as long as its good lol.

  182. What I believe I said was that people should read the books before they say that they dislike them because then they would have a better argument. then I said something like “which is Ironic because I dont like to try new things”
    I know that I dont like to try new things and know that it is a bad quality to have, but it’s the way I am.(but I was mainly talking about food when I said that)
    I dont even think that that is a quality that Bella has to begin with. I wasn’t the one to mention that.Emily did. Before you try to come and sound all smart and make fun of someone to make yourself feel better check ALL the facts first.

  184. Wow, an uglies movie! I’m excited! Are you gonna have auditions in Missouri? There are alot of people around here that love your books, and would love to audition for the movie! Wow… sorry i already said that! Anyways, can’t wait.

    Remember: Springfield Missouri! Lots of potential talent!

  185. Sweet!

    Well, I actually saw this post yesterday after going on youtube to watch fan-made Uglies movies. I like reading comments on the bottom of the pages so when I looked @ one I saw that people were saying that there’s an actual Uglies movie comming out. That of course, sent me spiraling out on the Google pages searching until finally about 30 more or less minutes later I found a link to here. ( Which made me feel not-so-smart because I didn’t think to come to this website first! )
    But anyway considering that the UGLIES is my new novel obbsession, ( Read all of the books since I think April counting all the days that made me wait @ the library.) I am so super phyced 4 the possibility movie that I DREAMED about playing Tally. ( But in real life I’m too young… sigh) On the bright side though, I got to hoverboard! LOL! So to all the movie producers I say….
    1. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE make it realistic ( nothing like the Jacob wolf thing on the new moon trailer because that is some sad graphics. *shudders* no offence)
    2. I know I speak for 99.9% of everyone here when I say no Disney
    3. also, don’t let the sometimes evil clutches of Hollywood take down a book/ movie with great potential!
    ( sorry that these requests and comments don’t make much sense. I’ve been on my (new) computer alot today & I’ve had 5 hours of volleyball camp today)
    Bottom line.. Make the movie great. Make it live up to the expectations of the fans. We love uglies and want the best for our beloved series. don’t let us down! I love (but not litterally LOVE) you forever Scott-la for posting this! Maybe I might get my shot of fame for this. and if not… eithr way It’ll probably be a gr8 movie!

    – Rachel-la G.

    (P.S)Sara-la: I thought the same ” Shay last name question ” yesterday! Thanks 4 sayin that cause I recomended Uglies to my friend’s mom and could’nt look it up.

    matt long: I was born in missouri ( St. Louis) small world huh?

    P.S.S. if you guys want to watch the fake trailer I watched go to youtube and search” Uglies teaser trailer” and you will be amazed! I lost count of how many times I watched it after 7.LOL. I got my mom to watch it and now she wants to read the book! yay! Also to the few people this concerns… please watch your language.

    Sorry to this insanely long post but if you guys could have open auditions in Atlanta GA? I live a couple hours away but I would be eternally grateful if that would happen.
    To whoever said something about not being able to find any open auditions near their home NEVER go to John Robert Powers they are ginormus liars!

    Well, hopefully you read (or are going to read) my post soon so bye! P.S.S.S. Thanks U agian Scott-la! you are now my favorite YA author! I went to your wife’s site ( not to sound stalky) but I have got to find her Getting Rid of your Fairy book or something any way i hope this posts so Peace Out!

  186. I’m going to try and link the video I was talking about:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebMPjXd0VB0

    Hopefully this showed up as a link. If not, just type it up in the little address bar thing or go to youtube, search for Uglies Teaser trailer and click on the very first video that shows up. ( the picture that shows up on the side should be a bunch of “pretties” peering over the side of a balcony.

    ( this is another suggestion to the movie producer people I highly recomend 2 watch)

    Rachel rating: 999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999 starz!!!
    (I don’t know if there’s such a number but I don’t care!)

    ( I do know I do a bunch of parenthacees though…)

    Anyway watch the vid and I’ll check back tomarrow cause my hand really hurts from all this typing

  187. Cee ya!

    P.S. yet again to Scott-la
    I assume that you keep track of all your fans email. Just a little heads up if you ever get to my notice is that this is my parent’s email not mine. Thanks for your understanding and for posting this ! Meanwhile me and your other adoring fans will be anxiously awaiting your next post.

    P.S.2.CRAZYLY.OBSESD.FNS.LKE.ME. Since I’m done with Uglies I need new fabulous Scott-la books to read! I’m dyin here!

    What do y’all think? Midnighters (everyone says they’re good.) or PEEPS? ( crazy twilight fan. though I wish everyone would stop comparing the two books. )
    Right now i’m reading Gone With the Wind ( fat chance I’ll ever finish but I’m gonna try.)
    Now, since no one is here responding I’m going to soothe my anziety and emotional pain from not having movie info posted by watching the Uglies teaser trailer and Fred videos for the ( insert very large number here)nth time. Either that, or reread thi weeks TIME magazine! bye

  190. If there is a movie, I think I will have a spaz attack from joy. I might even go to a midnight premiere! I didnt even see the midnight premiere of Twilight, for gosh sake!

    Scott Westerfeld – 1
    Stephanie Meyer – 0

  191. When the movie finally comes out one day, i will probably see it at least 20 times in the theatre…YAY..i already know that it’s gonna be amazing because the books were!!!! ok I may be a tad hyper right now! 🙂

  192. Oh and Rachel-wa G. the midnighter books are really good, so you should definatly read those!!! Hey they should make midnighters movie. Yeah but read them!

  193. Ok this is like my third comment in a row but i had an idea for movie or movies….ok so i know that a lot of people think the actors should change between movies cause you know they become pretty then special but i think the actors should stay the same you know just maybe put pretty or scary makeup on them or something its just my opinion ummmm i know this isnt exactly for this movie but its just a thought….you can never be to prepared..ok bye.

    oh also i think all of the future actors should read the book so that they truly understand the characters and the whole story!!

    ok i think that was my last thought..bye again 🙂

  194. I went to the midnight premier of Transformers this morning 🙂
    Is anyone planning on going to the Harry Potter Premier????
    Im so there I can’t wait!!!
    I will deff go to the Uglies one for sure

  195. i am soo hopeing they wont mess this movie up and make it totally differant then the way it is…it stinks when they do that.and i agree with nichole-la they should make the actors read the books.so again like nichole-la said they’d understand the character more.

  196. And Scott,Please Please Please Please Please write a new book for the uglies series PLEASE!You said you were going to write a trilogy but you wrote four.so why not write five?And hey dont you want to out do stephane myers and JK RAWLINGS?!seriously all of your fans are DYING for you to write a new book so…PLEASE?

  197. This movie has me all excited and waiting for it to come out. If you go to youtube and look at what the fans can do with clips imagine what movie producers do. Please for the sake of the fans do not cut the movie short, I mean look at the Lord of the Ring movies, they never ended but there would be so much going on that the viewers wouldnt even notice the time passing. Also do some open casting because even though the auditioners dont have agents they can still have a bunch of talent. Hey if I had to fly somewhere to auditon i Probly would. Also make the movie fit in with the time like the hovercars should look like hovercars not spaceships or auto mobiles. Once again this movie has me bubbly but when I hear it come out that bubbly will sure turn into icy for sure.

    Scott listen to britt-la I need another book to the series. I actually have an idea if you want but I am not a writer at all so feel free to ask. It coulod work with how you put together all of the other books. PLZ just think about it.

  198. I’m going to the harry potter premiere, Kristina-la! I’m gonna be FIRST in line!!!!!

  199. the movies should have:

    1.actors that are the age of the book characters NOT some mid-twenty year old

    2. Amazing scenary

    3. the actors have to have the SAME LOOK as the book characters

    4. DON’T make the movie a GIRLY thing, so boys can be into it aswell.

    5. the slang. (bubbly and bogus)

  201. I agree with all the people who said that Tally and Shay shouldn’t be beautiful. I mean, think about it? The whole point of Uglies is that in the future, people think that REGULAR is ugly! I agree that they should be unknowns! I also agree that the actors should be the age of the characters, like uglies(2 comments above me) said.

  202. It is very important that when you describe in the book you know how they call Tally Squint and Shay skinny well the uglie’s nicknames have to fit them so in the movie Tally should squint a lot but not randomly

  203. I agree with Carol-wa. The nicknames should play a part. I also don’t really think Peris should have any bigger part in the movie than he did in the book.

  204. scott-la, it seems like yopu are posting less often. it’s been l;ike 6 days since your last post! is it becuz of your twitter? evil little thing that i dpon’t understand…

  205. Ant-la: oh no! it’s me again! the strong minded one that had a debate with you about the importance of shay. But now, PLEASE NOT ROBERT P.!!!!111 the last thing we need is some creepo, emothoinless vampire dude to play the part of a sparky, lively,*beautiful*, and smart. I think that zac efron would be a good zane. and do not say that he is a disney channel star, because here are movies that aren’t disney that he was in:
    * Hairspray
    *17 Again
    * The derby Stallion(when he was like 13)
    *SNL multiple times
    *Miracle run
    *ER
    *CSI Miami
    *Summerland
    and alot more that i had no clue what they were…. ZAC EFRON FOR ZANE!

  206. OH YEHA! so if they start saying”oh let’s make it a comedy to appeal to the teen audience”, tell them that they should make it like pirates of the carribean, where it was mostly action/adventure, with a few little jokes thrown in. well, that’s how uglies books were, so that’s how they should make the movie.

  207. NO NO NO NO NO NO NOOOO. I REFUSE TO LET ZAC EFRON PLAY ZANE. NO! I LOVE ZANE AND I WILL NOT HAVE HIM DESTROY HIS CHARACTER!!!!!! NO NO NO. I WILL GO ON A CRAZY RAMPAGE IF HE ENDS UP AS HIM. BAD THINGS WILL HAPPEN. NO ZAC EFRON EVER EVER EVER. NO WAY.

  208. No. Zac Efron may have been in movies other than Disney, but he became famous for his Disney career. I think I speak for some people here when we mean people that have been LARGELY PORTRAYED in Disney films.

  209. im gonna go havv lunch….. and then clean up the house so that i can get a new iPod(my mom put mine through the washer, and is making me earn up a new one)… and me pony is doing much, MUCH better…although she is starting to act like a brat again.

  210. yeah… i guess u r right about zac efron, but i stil think that he could make a good zane…

  213. I think this blog is dedicated to Scott so the evil vampires should not be mentioned. i think its a good point matching actors with their nicknames and SHAY (omg fav character) her pigtails. and megan fox is like a natural pretty =P. The teaser vid is amazing too, the girl at/near the end of the vid looks like a perfect (pretty) shay, to me anyways =). Gratz Scott-la

    -Woah!

  214. ohh and Charlize Theron (aeon flux) looks like an amazing Dr. Cable like beautiful but…..idk just Dr. Cableish

    google image her

  215. wow im should probably say everything in one comment but i keep thinking and have new ideas

    first. i think zac efron would only make a good peris or some little part
    second. why couldn’t the girl scott-la used on his cover be tally??? is she too old???
    third. i think a book based around a time like pre-tally. like dr.cable’s rise to head of Spec.Circ and Maddy and Az descovering the lesions n their love ^.^ n DAVIDS SCAR!!! (isn’t he older than tally) idk

  216. I don’t think Robert Pattinson would make a good Zane, but he IS an all around better actor than Zac Efron times like a MILLION. He just acted in a stupid movie, that’s all. I loved him in Harry Potter. I shall search for the right Zane!

  217. I look like the girl on the cover of Uglies… lol I just don’t have bangs. But I could fix that ^_^

    I personally loved the twilight book, as stated above, and haven’t seen the movie, but I was told the movie killed the book.

  218. i cant wait for this movie im soo excited but seriously NO twilight characters for the movie!

  219. If they end up making all three movies, they should do a fourth one about Extras. I was a little bit disappointed that Tally-wa and Shay-la didn’t have as big parts as the other books, but I don’t think Aya-chan should get left out!

  220. yeah i would like to see an extras movie. with all the crazy surges and manga heads

  223. Most of all from the Extras movie I would love to see the “extras” who are planning to go to the moon… that would be quite a sight. *_*

  225. One thing that needs to be emphasized, in the movie, is the depth of everything in the book. All of the meanings and undertones about corrupt society as well as Tally and Shay’s characters. Even though all of the special effects and plot are *very* to the books, the undertones make the books deeper than skin/page, which drew me -and probably other people as well- to read farther than ‘Uglies’.

    ~Sam

  226. so i just recently read all of the books thanks to my best friend… anyways i absolutely loved them! and now that i found out there might be a movie that would be so nice! well congrats and i look foward to reading more of your books!!

    – chesney

  230. RIP MJ & FF …rain oh rain, don’t go away, today’s your day in every way✖✕

  234. Yes I have changed my name! (formerly Rachel-wa G.)

    I thought of a better one. Hopefully, my comments will be a little more intellegent tonight… (though I DID just come back from the waterpark on the far side of town…) first things first, on my incredibly long post, pings to all my new bubbly cyberfriends!!!!!

    Ping to Amy~la: (It took me a couple of seconds to find the squiggly line) thanks bunches 4 the suggestion! It helped me bunches! Are u a twilight fan? I see so many disputes here! Correct me if I’m wrong, but I think u were in some but I’m just to lazy to read through the comments! LOL!

    Ping to Sarah-la: I’m just wondering what problem you are talkin about I have many problems here (see comments # 185, 186 & 187 to refresh your memory) I also have many other problems that I will probably list in the future but still…

    Ping to Julia-wa: The scoreboard’s bubbly but, I’m gonna fix it 4 ya…

    Scott-la: 10

    Stephenie Ificouldscratchhernameoutiwould Meyer: 0

    S.M, if you’re reading this, it’s not that I don’t love your books, it’s just that twilight’s being overthrown by the Next Big Novel… oh well 4 u SM…..

    Ping to Nicole-la: thanks to you to 4 the Midnighters comment! I’ll probably agree with the movie deal once the first page draws me in either way, which ever book I read first I’ll still cherish Scott-la’s books!!!!

    Pony-la I totes agree w/u on the concept of twitter. shouldn’t you have a right to type over 146 characters? (if i wuz on twitter right now,) even though i don’t own a twitter and never will for multiple reasons. ( i would be exceeding 146 characters .)
    Also, whos fault was it when ur ipod got washed in the washing machine? ( I feel your pain, my mom dropped my old one on the sidewalk…hahaha sorry spongebob just came on the one when he becomes “normal” anyway, thankfully she bought me a new one her name is Maria #2.

    Ping to anonymous-la lolz: Thanks for watching the vid anonymous-la lolz!! The pre Tally book is by far the bubbliest non Scott-la ideaever!!!

    And to all of y’all who haven’t watched The Best Uglies Trailer Ever i’ve reposted the link here:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebMPjXd0VB0

    And for those of you who have watched it, leave me a comment saying you have. also for those of you who have watched it and declared it not-icy-making, u have some serious lesions in that bubblehead brain of yours… (slight offence intended)

    Random Ramblings Ping to Sarah-la: comment 217: want to know what’s weird? I imagined myself as Tally in the book (another problem I have, I always have to find some character in the book and then imagine myself asthat character. helps me get inside their mind and feel their emotions. Sometimes this is good, others, not so much…) Even though yesterday I said I was too young, my mega tallness makes up for my age. ( 5 foot 7in.!) My mom wouldn’t let me get forehead bangs though (volleyball) all I have are these wispy little side bangs that don’t evenshow… I think i kinda look like Tally too except her hair is a bit lighter than mine.

    About the Extras movie I hope they make one! I always had such a hard time imagining all the crazy-surge!

    well, anyway these pings are long enough so I’m gonna start a new comment.

  235. Kristina-la: What you said to Sarah-la is kinda funny, cause your making ME sound like the bad guy. Pointing out certain things. Anyway, these are just my opinions. And you’re right. Maybe I was being a bit of an idiot now that I think about it. ( no comments on that one please)

    To everybody: AH! I’m excited for the uglies movie! I’m really worried about their casting though. Who knows how close they’re going to get to the characters. Although, a lot of people here are concered about Zane. But, remember that Zane doesn’t come in until the second book, so I don’t think we have to worry about him until close to the second movie. But I don’t know.

  236. Stuff they NEED on the Uglies movie and if they don’t add it the consequences will be world-wrecking!!! (Oil Bug world wrecking to be exact.) Feel free to add on to the list loyal fans!!!

    1. The sky needs to look like salmon colored cat vomit when Tally sneaks of to see Peris. Because that first sentence automaticly makes you read the book.

    2. Two words: pig mask

    3. the roller coaster/hoverboard ride.

    4. Shay’s crudely written note ( mabe it could be written in the actress’ non-dominant hand unless that is, if they write with both hands. If that’s the case just let a little kid do it cause little kids aren’t the best handwriters.

    I have to log off now but i’ll be back in the mornin. nitey night!!

  237. Michael Jackson died…has anyone heard? it sucks, for him anyway.
    I dont want zac efron to be zane. he doesnt look like zane. i mean, hes sorta cute but…i dunno. just weird. i would consider him over rob pat tho
    i wonder who they cast for david…

  240. man, i just hope they do it better than twilight.
    that movie was garbage. i felt ripped off.
    just a question: If there are 3 different movies will there be three different girls playing tally, or will one get changed and how would that work?

  241. Wow I’m with Mary on Nicole Kidman as Dr. Cable! That’d be EPIC. Tilda Swinton as Dr. Cable would be annoying….I’m so sick of her playing bad guys.

  242. ok ya NO robert pattinson!twilight people can NOt come in and make this there thing!i agree with the people who say no robert pattinson.

  243. Just read your comments about casting calls…Sorry, Scott…*ashamed*

    This is very cool. I’m so glad that this book is getting the attention it deserves, and I really hope that the movie turns out to be something that’s worked on quickly and efficiently. I can’t wait to see how this develops, I’ll definitely be checking in as often as I have been to keep updated.

    You posted your last post on my birthday! yay!

  244. Good point, Ajane. I was wondering that myself.

    I’d think they’d keep the same actress and make-up her up a bit, or down for the first one. I assume they’d add lifts in her shoes as she grows taller.

    Make-up is a curious thing, it could definitely make an Ugly pretty, then Special.

  245. Also, I really don’t think that anyone famous should be in the movie. It should be like Harry Potter and the way they cast these kids who’ve never done movies before, but it was SO CLEAR that they had talent.

    I think that a new movie like this is a great opportunity for many qualified, unknown actresses and actors everywhere to get a chance to do what they want to do.

  246. Yeah i just heard Michael Jackson died..its pretty sad. He had good music…like thriller!!

    I totally agree with everyone who said Anglelina Jolie would be a great Dr. Cable…i dont know about Nicole Kidman shes to sweet looking not really scary enough.

  247. If there was one book I could have chosen to lock away & keep safe from Hollywood, it would be Uglies.
    No matter what, it’s going to be effed up D:
    There’s no way to translate the characters and the technology and the amazing-osity into a movie.

    Unless it was anime or something ;3

  249. Wow, you’re asking the fans’ opinions? That is so bubbly! If only more book-to-movie franchises did the same thing…

    I think you should write the screenplay yourself to keep it as natural as possible.

    The actors need to be the same age as and look the same as the book characters. And they should all (with the exception of Dr Cable) be unknowns. David needs to have serious charisma, Shay and Zane should have a bit of a wild, haggard look to them, and Tally needs Tally-ness.

    Have you ever thought about making any of the characters black?

    My personal opinion is that if the auditions are open, there should be some in regional Western Australia so I can go lol. (I actually remember messing around and acting out bits of Uglies to myself cause it was so cool! Uglies IS already a movie.)

    Speaking of Australia in general, I always imagined Uglies to be set in a reasonably bushy (but still red-dirt-y) part of Australia. I think it fits, but I might just be overly patriotic.

    Because the books are about imperfection, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE I am BEGGING you to try and convince the Hollywood people that the actors don’t need to have perfect skin and hair in every shot. Make up for the lack of ‘perfection’ with flawless directing and amazing scenery so that it still looks ultra-professional and ‘Cable-world’.

    Also, try to use as little CGI as possible. Cause on some level, it still all looks fake. And even though they’re inhabiting a ‘fake’ world, this isn’t really a great way to portray it.

    I cannot WAIT for the movie! (And I’m really looking forward to seeing the hoverboards and the Rusty Ruins!)

  250. Rise and shine u guyses!

    Ping to Stephanie: Glad to see we have the same problem!
    ( writing long posts and acting out scenes. 🙂 ) I just hope the hoverboards aren’t the actual hoverboards. They just look like stupid pink snowboards! 🙁 U live in Australia? I’ve always wanted to go there! Have you met Scott-la or seen him speak in person? Good thinking about the placement of Tally’s City. (or The Smoke either one would be great!) Australia is pretty much terrain so once you would get way out there, the only thing you would have to worry about are all the cute little kangaroos hopping around.

    Pings to everyone: Somebody (me) dosen’t see anyone adding on to my important list.. (see post 236.) and pleasepleasepleasepleasepleaseplease watch the video and leave comments about it!!! I’m going to keep adding on to my list now ( and you better do the same or I’ll call the Cutters to come get you and tell Shay to use nanos on you all. cause we all know how much she loves evil tiny machines…..)
    I ment to tell y’all about Michael Jackson yesterday. My dad and I were driving home from Publix when we heard it on a radio station. He died from I believe it was cardiac arrest How sad. Boo hoo no more Thriller or Beat It or Mommy kissing santa claus. 🙁 That was the bogus-making part of my day. But hopefully, he’s in clebrity Heaven along with the Charlies angel woman.
    Well, I’m starting to wonder if everyone dissapeared of to The Smoke so I’m gonna go eat my Chicken Biscuit for break fast.
    Number cinco on my list: Spagbolspagbolspagbolspagbolspagbolspagbolspagbolspagbolspagbolspagbolspagbolspagbol.. The more I type those words, the nastier this meal seems to become. Well anyway I’ll try to get on later my mom left me a list of chores to do so BRB! 🙂

  251. Awesome! I’m glad there’s some progress going. If there are open auditions, I’m going to be first in line! Or last…depending on how far I have to drive…or fly…although I’m not very good with planes.

    Well, it’s still not much, but hey, progress is progress. I’m sure it’ll make a great movie. 🙂

  252. Just sayin that this clock must be posted in New York Time

    Because my computer clock says 8:45 AM.
    Anyway I’m off to do my chores TTYL ( Talk to Y’all Later) 🙂

  253. i personally think that by making uglies a movie, a lot more people would read the book, just like when Twilight came out in theatres

  254. Hey Marisa do you live in Alabama? If so it’s me your best buddy Rachel! If you aren’t sorry I got you 2 confused. bye!

  256. haha I’m not gonna lie, if Zac Efron was in the movie, I would be really happy. He’s GORGEOUS! lol

  257. How can you say that…i really hate Zac Efron hes way to disney and weird he would ruin the movie…i heard hes in the fourth pirates and now im upset.

  258. Gah. I can’t believe ANYBODY could like zac efron. I think I’m gonna throw up now just thinking about it. EW. HATE HIM.

  260. ive been trying to think all day about who would make a great tally youngblood but i just cant think of one…it must be really hard to cast actors…you know.

    and sorry to anyone who likes zac efron….those are just my thoughts on him.

  261. OMG..and i never thought about Shay’s last name but whats Davids too….holy crap this is a thinker.

  262. ya that always annoyed me. We never knew their last names.
    It would have been helpful when making them into sims 😛

    Emily- I totally didn’t mean to make you seem like the bad guy 😛
    When I was writing that I wrote it like 10 different ways because I couldn’t get it to sound right. but I left it the way it was because I didn’t want to ramble on about my “challenge” to you. But ya didn’t mean it like that.

    Wow I havn’t been on in like 2 days and their are like 100 comments between my last one!

  265. Thanks Sarah-la! Good idea with the minimization. I saved westerblog to open up when I come on the internet but I always have to scroll down the page to look for my comments. This way will make it hassle free! 🙂

    Hey I just came up with an idea! It kinda seems stupid, but we could make up Shay, David, and all the other characters names.

    I’m like super bubbly/happy cause my new Chuck Taylors just came in the mail! 🙂 They’re plain black high-tops but still. 🙂 Plus, I’m done with my chores and my friend might invite me to go swimming. It’s a good thing to do to beat the southern heat!

  266. Ping to Nicole-la: (see comment 260) Maybe that’s why there should be casting calls to find Tally.

    Ping to everyone: I know that 99.99% of us bloggers dispise Disney, (not to mention Zac Efron) *the OTHER Tally Youngblood represses a shudder.* but even though this is a long way off but I just thought of a guy who could play Zane: that Ed-cam dude on princess protection program but he might be too old by the time Pretties comes out if there is to be a movie. He seems like a good enough (and unknown) actor from all the commercials.

    I also just had an idea for a song. They could play Emergency by: Paramore. It seems pretty fast paced to me. The lyrics may be in question to some, but I’m going to use this song when I have the time to make a teaser trailer of my own. Speaking of teaser trailers, I still don’t see any video comments. Y’all must REALLY want Shay to pelt you with glitter bomb sneack attacks…
    ( see comments 234 and 186. )

    Here’s the link to listen to it for those of you who aren’t familiar with the band and its work.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiJym7OeZg8

    Ping to movie producer people: listening to the song applies to you too. 🙂 Please think about putting it on the Soundtrack!

  267. You are totally right the other tally youngblood….tally should be an unknown…. hopefully they get a good tally…fingers crossed!!

  268. I want Sims3 so badly
    but I’ve used up hours of my life
    playing sims2 and it seems like it would be a pitty
    if I just stopped playing it

  269. haha yeah…sims2 is great….. for like years i spent all my money buying expansion packs….i totally know how you feel Kristina-la.

  270. the thing i most wanna see is THE GLAMOUR OF THE PRETTY WORLD!!!!! CHAMPAGNE!PARTYS! FRIENDS!POPULARITY!!!

    SO EXCITED

  271. Ping to the OTHER Tally Youngblood:
    Haha… I’d love to see some of us *shifty eyes* get pelted with Shay’s glitter-bombs… It’d be funny 😀 One of the other things I’d like to see out of an Extras movie would be the tech-head bashes! I wouldn’t mind sneaking in as a bomber and crashing it!!

  273. i wz watching ncis earlier and it was this one episode called model behavior. there wz this one model that looked like she could be tally or shay for pretties. but she mighte be too old…she was really pretty tho, with makeup at least. its really surprising how a lot of celebrities dont actually look that good w/o makeup. like i went on that one site from bogus to bubbly, by this doctor dude…and the contestants for miss germany were really not all that gorgeous. there are ppl in my class prettier than her!
    i guess its their publicists that do all the dirty work. for some reason i just pictured tony dinozzo from ncis as him. haha, again, too old. im not sure angelina jolie would make a good dr cable tho…shes…tooo, ummmmm wellll u kno. shes pretty but i just imagined dr cable–not like her.
    im still opting for that narnia witch as cable tho. i think she could look a little nice cuz shes an actress.
    ping to dan: DEFINITELY! itd b so funny if the cast got drunk! *wicked look* and post it as special features or something. huh? yea?

  278. OMG!i am sooo excited for this movie…WHOS WITH ME?!lol i think emily browning should play tally.she would be perfect!and AGAIN NO twilight carachters.this is for the uglies,pretties,specials…and of course…SMOKIES!tilight CAN NOT come in and make this there thing this is our thing…and by the way,no hsm characters either.

  281. Nicole-la : The thing is once I finally start getting expansion packs for the sims a new version comes out……its impossible to keep up.

  283. i think that either

    a. emily browning
    or
    b. the girl from the cover of uglies

    should b tally

    n
    emily osment
    or
    anna maria de perez de tagle
    should b shay

  284. thanks for answering my question haley.
    also i think nicole kidman could pull it off, she’s a good actress
    and i’d have to agree that they should find some unknown actors because i’m tired of seeing the same five people in all the movies. i’m just saying

  287. i agree with
    Haley Raeon
    “Also, I really don’t think that anyone famous should be in the movie. It should be like Harry Potter and the way they cast these kids who’ve never done movies before, but it was SO CLEAR that they had talent.” ACTORS THAT ARE THE CHARACTERS AGE NOT SOME WERID TWENTY YEAR OLD TRYING TO PLAY A TEENAGER AND SHOULD BE NORAML LOOKING

    and also agree with the other tally youngblood
    1The sky needs to look like salmon colored cat vomit when Tally sneaks of to see Peris. Because that first sentence automaticly makes you read the book.
    2. Two words: pig mask
    3. the roller coaster/hoverboard ride.
    4. Shay’s crudely written note ( mabe it could be written in the actress’ non-dominant hand unless that is, if they write with both hands. If that’s the case just let a little kid do it cause little kids aren’t the best handwriters.

  288. ” WHAT YOU DO, THE WAY YOU THINK, MAKES YOU BEAUTIFUL” -DAVID.

    this HAS to be said to tally in the movie. the end.

  289. OH MY GOSH! i can’t believe we all forgot quotes from the book!!
    yes that TOTALLY has to be in the MOVIE! there are no expections!!

    producers Listen to me and alexandra THAT QUOTE HAS to be IN THE MOVIE!!!

    ” WHAT YOU DO, THE WAY YOU THINK, MAKES YOU BEAUTIFUL” -DAVID.

  291. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    THAT QUOTE TOTALLY HAS TO BE IN THE MOVIE..

    .EVERYONE KEEP POSTING THIS QUOTE

    “””WHAT YOU DO, THE WAY YOU THINK, MAKES YOU BEAUTIFUL””””

    ..SO IF THE PRODUCERS LOOK AT THESE..THEY CAN SEE THAT THAT QUOTE IS IMPORTANT..THINK OF MORE KEY QUOTES THAT JUST HAVE TO BE IN THE MOVIE!!

    I WAS SO EMOTIONAL WHEN I READ THAT LINE IN THE BOOK!

  292. whoever says that the actors should be unknown it totally right. seeing famous people would kill the whole movie for me. But for open auditions they should go to different states, its annoying to see that you have to go to LA or some big city to audition. or set up a website so people can send in pictures and stuff like that.

  293. WHAT YOU DO, THE WAY YOU THINK, MAKES YOU BEAUTIFUL
    WHAT YOU DO, THE WAY YOU THINK, MAKES YOU BEAUTIFUL
    WHAT YOU DO, THE WAY YOU THINK, MAKES YOU BEAUTIFUL
    WHAT YOU DO, THE WAY YOU THINK, MAKES YOU BEAUTIFUL

  295. “What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful.”
    scott, u should put uglies quotes on your site!
    cuz i think we forgot some of them.
    i dont think Uglies should be made R rated, cuz then a lot of people wouldn’t be able to see it. (like my frnd julia).
    pg13 though, should be your guys’ goal. not too disney, but not too idk…The Strangers either. dont watch the strangers its a stupid movie. uglies has to be better.
    or else.
    if you guys get miley cyrus or the jonas brothers into this movie, soundtrack, or others. my friends and i will probably boycott it.
    but, MCR, Fall out boy, The All American Rejects, or stuff like that should be in the movie.
    pleeseee dont let disney kill this one.
    im sry, disney is disney. sci fi is sci fi.

  296. Best. News. Ever.

    Methinks you got some pretty awesome producers lined up, Scotty.

    Okay, the open auditions thing sounds comforting. Even if it’s not a promise, because what with so many fans around, I think it’d be interesting to see so many people come forth and audition for their favorite character as though on invitation. I’d certainly try for Shay if there was ever a possibility. (xD Albeit, I’d fail miserably most likely, but it still sounds like tons of fun.)

    …A producer that’s READ Bogus to Bubbly? This is treading onto unknown and dangerous territory. I like itttt! Smart, smart producer. And very good idea, actually, to use a Guide to Uglies as, well, a guide.

    But yes, I still think setting and plot are my biggest concerns. A three-for-one sounds disappointing, as A Series of Unfortunate Events ended up being in movie format. These books mean so much to so many people, and I have a feeling that optioning it would eventually go well with some willing group, if not the first one.

    And yes, I was so out of it when I last commented on your previous post that I didn’t even realize the most disappointing aspect of putting some gorgeous and famous actress in a role like Tally or Shay: ruins the whole point. Yes. I was more distraught over the fact that many famous actresses and actors actually, in fact, do not do much to actually practice their acting abilities (some, I would say, have no abilities at all). But yeah, that would just…yeah, wow. No need to get the operation if the entire cast is filled with Natural-Born Pretties.

    In any case, congratulations on a highly promising phone call, Scott-la! This all sounds too bubbly for words.

    -Hope

  297. Hey,
    I agree with everything everyone has said so far.
    I really do hope they used unknowns for Tally and Shay maybe even David, I don’t know.
    I just can’t wait for this movie; I wish time would just hurry the hell up, haha
    Ohhh, I agree 100% with the OTHER Tally Youngblood about Emergency by Paramore.
    I am a huge fan of there’s and Emergency would fit well I think too.

    Congratulations Scott, the movie will be a hit, no doubt about it!
    YOU’RE AMAZING!!!

  298. I think if they make it a movie, Sigourney Weaver would make an great Dr. Cable(but that may just be my crazy brain…)!!!!

  299. I am really excited about this movie! I will probably come back to this website every day now and see if there is a new post about casting. I would really like to audition for the part of Shay. Well keep us updated and PLEASE tell us right away when there are open casting calls.

    Thank you for writing these wonderful books!

  300. Scott-la, please post when/where you end up doing casting calls. Its not fair if we have to go to come random third-party site to get what belongs here.

  302. Stephanie, none of the characters can be black unless they were an Ugly, and even then that could be controversial, because one of the main points of the operation is that everyone had the same skin color so that nobody fought about it like they did in the Rusty days. I think that was mentioned in Uglies, when Tally and Shay are working on Shay’s face on the wallscreen.

  303. Also, I think that some great music should be in the movie. And to keep it as non-controversial as possible, it should be from unknown bands that, again, need a kick into the real world. Just like the actors, the bands should be unknown. It should be very clear they have talent, and the music should fit the theme of the movie and each scene, sure, but the more unknown the band, the better.

  304. Ping to Haley Rae:
    That’s true… the skin color thing. They are all meant to be the same, and it is never mentioned (I don’t think) about skin color at all until they get to Diego in Specials.

  305. Hola Senors and Senorittas!

    Hooray for Saturday! (or at least that’s the day it is in the good ol’ USofA !) here’s some pings.

    Ping to Sarah-la: Hooray for Glitter Bombs ( and other evil futuristic destroying methods!) !

    Ping to uglies!!!!!!!!! into a movie: yes I know I’m right about my list haha! Here’s some other stuff I’d like to add:

    6. Tally’s Best Friend scar

    7. chicken and rabbit pen in The Smoke

    8. The knitted sweater that Tally got from giving away her spagbol.

    9. The wallscreen software that lets you “choose” what you want to look like when you’re Pretty. (forgot the name used at the moment.)

    Got to go BRB!

  308. if you don’t make sure that you have some of the famous quotes from the books in the movies, i will personaly punch the pruducers! (good thing i live 2 hours away from L.A.) also i think the movie will be PG-13, hey! ill be 14 2011! yes im 11 and almost 12, got a problem with that?

  309. Scott-la, you should definetly put a quotes page on the site. It would help when we’re looking for that all-too-important quote of the day ^_^

  310. My mom made me exercise. (boo.) but I’m back and am going to continue my list of pings. ( forgot to readd the evil Spagbol for #5 on my Stuff they NEED on the Uglies movie and if they don’t add it the consequences will be world-wrecking!!! (Oil Bug world wrecking to be exact.)List. Once again, feel free to add on to the list loyal fans!!!

    1. The sky needs to look like salmon colored cat vomit when Tally sneaks of to see Peris. Because that first sentence automaticly makes you read the book.

    2. Two words: pig mask

    3. the roller coaster/hoverboard ride.

    4. Shay’s crudely written note ( mabe it could be written in the actress’ non-dominant hand unless that is, if they write with both hands. If that’s the case just let a little kid do it cause little kids aren’t the best handwriters.

    5.Spagbolspagbolspagbolspagbolspagbolspagbolspagbolspagbolspagbolspagbolspagbolspagbol.. The more I type those words, the nastier this meal seems to become.

    6. Tally’s Best Friend scar

    7. chicken and rabbit pen in The Smoke

    8. The knitted sweater that Tally got from giving away her spagbol.

    9. The wallscreen software that lets you “choose” what you want to look like when you’re Pretty. (forgot the name used at the moment.)

    10. The magazine scene in the library.

    Hooray for copy and pasteing! I had NO idea you could do that until now! My Wols Gnipyt syndrome is no longer as servere! (see if y’all can decode that) 🙂

    Ping to ALEXANDRA: Ohmigosh I completely forgot about that line! I think they should also use “I’m Tally Youngblood, make me pretty.” That was just an extreme cliff-hanger to me. I couldn’t bear to wait at the library for Pretties I thought I would die!

    Ping to Kristina-la: comment 290, very dramatic! 😉

    Ping to Megan: Right on about comment 292! Let’s give it up for all the small town thrivers like us! (claps entusiastically)

    Ping to Riva-la: What about using Paramore as one of the bands? ( to everyone) once again I have recently posted another Youtube clip that has the song Emergency by Paramore

    click here to watch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiJym7OeZg8

    Please watch! As stated on a pre-comment the lyrics may be in question to some but it seems very Uglies worthy to me! 🙂

    Ping to rose-la: I wish time would pass by too. Yay! Me loves Paramore also! (recently discovered the band.) Quick Question, is there a clean version of Misery Business? I’ve known the song for a while but just now learned the title. Correct me if I’m wrong, but I think it may have one swear word in it & my mom doesn’t let me buy explicit songs on itunes. ( Just incase I’m right about the swearing, don’t mention the word just say there is one. Thanks!) Anyway here’s a quick math problem:

    awesome vocals + crazy hair = Haley Williams! ( Hopefully I got the name right…) 🙂

    Ping to cait-la: it helps if you save it (the site) to pop up when you use the internet that’s what I do. ( comment 299)

    Still have one more ping to do but i have to go2 the store Cyall l8tr !

  311. Things to add to the other Tally Youngbloods list.
    11. “You can die pretty for all I care.”- Dr. Cable
    12. “I don’t want to hurt you but I will if I have to”- Specials
    13. The heart tracker.
    14. David kissing her and telling her shes beautiful
    15. The helicopter
    16. The white weed
    17. Shay Croy and others coming down to meet Tally when she makes it to Smoke
    18. SHAYS PIGTAILS!
    19. Tallys brown frizzy hair, thin luips and squashed down nose
    20. Davids scar
    21. GET THE HOVERBOARDS AND CARS RIGHT!
    22. An, Deex, Sussy in the sparklers of “The smoke lives!”
    23. The part where Tally is hoverboarding without shoes
    24. Boss with the pepper stuff
    25. When Shays pretty…
    And other than that I cannot think of anything. But I probably will later. Ping to The other Tally Youngblood- I think they should make new songs for the movie.Great tips for the producers, Jaeda-la

  315. i am happy. i am so freakin’ happy.
    WOOHOO!!!
    for tally, they should have a person NOT wearing makeup play her. she should look regular, and she shouldn’t look like she just stepped of the cover of a magazine. AND, she shouldn’t look anorexic, or wear jeans.
    NO MAKEUP!!
    they should find some random person like, walking around in a store or something, instead of using someone famous.

  316. sry it’s been forever and there is too much to respond to so i didn’t read half of the comments…
    Ping to the OTHER Tally Youngblood: sorry but i have to steal ur ping idea. genius. anyway, my mom claims that it is my fault about my ipod, becuz i left it in my jacket pocket and asked her to wash it… i think it’s hers. she thinks that the same thing will happen with my phone, because after not having it for a month, i constantly forget where it is.. im not back into the habit yet. and to add to your list:
    1. oh crap i forgot.. oh yeah! when the smokies leave the shoes for tally in the holding pen.
    2. The doctor coming up to say:”we have a problem with your operation” this should be part of the commercial too.
    im too tired to respond to anything else….. gah….. i can hardly think. and i hate this keyboard. my dad and stepmom changed all of the computers around so now my dad’s computer is mine, my stepmom’s computer is his, and she gets a new computer. well, my new computer has no internet yet, so im stuck on my dad’s. and the keyboard is really loud and not what im used to. so yeah…. i will talk more later but right now i want some food…… yet i shouldnt, i am allready chunky enough. i need to eat less. lol. anywayz ttyl.

  317. oh yeah LONG LIVE MICHAEL JACKSON!!!!!! me and my mom were in the car going to pick my cuz upo for a sleepover, and she turned on the radio and there was a MJ song. then another. i was like wow, a MJ marathon. my mom was like maybe he died or something. no, he couldnt have. then late we heard that he did. my mom can be psycic like that somethimes….

  318. and in specials for the Manifesto, it should start off with tally saying ping to whoever … then it shows maddy, peris and shay reading it, with tally’s voice saying it at the same time. i dunno, just a thought..

  319. For Dr. Cable, I’ve always pictured Tilda Swinton as her. She has played Jadis, The White Queen in Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe.

  320. this is getting good… its fun to read through all the comments people leave!
    Ping to Pony-la:
    I think its your mom’s fault. She should have checked the pockets. But then again, you could have taken it out before you asked her to wash it, so in a way its kinda both your faults…

  321. Okay yeah, someone famous for Cable, that’s a given. Knowing Hollywood, if we don’t get unknown actors for Tally or Shay, we’ll just get Ashley Tisdale and Vanessa Anne Hudgens (Don’t believe me? Two words: New Moon) so that’s a given as well. We need someone cold, calculating, and preferably with the ability to make their eye twitch (Come on, don’t tell me you don’t wanna see a Cable eyetwitch)

    What I want is a frontal view for the rollercoaster scene. Sort-of a ‘we feel like we’re there’ sort-of thing going down, then a bird’s eye view to show us just how frigging big and horrific the Rusties made their cities. I think that’s an important part of Uglies: showing the future in a layer that can be peeled away to show how ‘ugly’ it really is. It should be made clear that our future is no wonderland.

    At the same time, it can’t exactly be preachy. We still need to feel Tally and Shay become best friends (something that, sorry, I felt wasn’t explored as much as it really should’ve in the books) and we need to feel it strong enough to know that when Tally makes her choice, it’s a hard choice to make. A really hard choice. This is a girl who has to choose between her dreams and her best friend.

    Also: Peris. Sure, he can be someone moderately famous but he still needs to be there. A touch of humor would seem right to most screenwriters to put in during the opening scene (in the form of him acting awkward) and perhaps that would be better for a ‘teen’ movie (though I think it’s fine as-is in the book). I think a montage would be in order for the ‘Tally goes to the Smoke!’ sequence because the bits until the fire are a bit dull when imagined on a screen (though they were needed and quite well written). . .

    That’s all. ^_^

  322. OMG!!! If they make this into a movie I think I will have a heart attack…..but it will be worth it! I am seriously sooo excited!!!!

  326. Whut up homiez?

    I just made the best cake it’s really good and it has a peace sign my favorite thing !

    Belated Ping to Haley Rae: I meant to respond earlier but anyway, I feel like I’ve heard your name before… Is your mom a 4th grade teacher? I doubt that Uglies would be R- rated. If you ask me, that’s a little too cautious-making. On comment 303 you make a gr8 point.

    Ping to Jadea-la: I will add on to The List immeadetly. (P.S I totes 4got about T.Y riding barefoot part good job! Maybe I could make up a song… I AM pretty good @ writing poetry…..)

    Ping to Kristina-la:hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahah this is fun hahahahahahahahhahahahhahah 🙂

    Ping to Tally & Zane: Thank You. I’ve always had a feeling I might become the next Albert Einstein! ROTFL!

    Ping to Pony-la: I know how busy you must feel. Pings just always make me feel bubbly. Like I said to Tally & Zane, I’ve always had a feeling I might become the next Albert Einstein! (not) I will also add your ideas to The List. ( I’ve started capitilization. Isn’t that gr8? 😉 ) Same thing happened to my friend’s phone.
    I’ll post The List at the bottom of the comment once I can’t think about who and what to ping about anymore. This will be the 3rd time I’ve posted The List today. You never realize how much you’ve forgotten about the book until you make a list about it huh? I’m sometimes phycic too. ( Twilight Zone theme song plays out of nowhere.) Chunks… I can’t STAND that word. Just sounds sooo wrong. Onwards towards The List!!!!

    Stuff they NEED on the Uglies movie and if they don’t add it the consequences will be world-wrecking!!! (Oil Bug world wrecking to be exact.)List. Once again, feel free to add on to the list loyal fans!!!

    1. The sky needs to look like salmon colored cat vomit when Tally sneaks of to see Peris. Because that first sentence automaticly makes you read the book.

    2. Two words: pig mask

    3. the roller coaster/hoverboard ride.

    4. Shay’s crudely written note ( mabe it could be written in the actress’ non-dominant hand unless that is, if they write with both hands. If that’s the case just let a little kid do it cause little kids aren’t the best handwriters.

    5.Spagbolspagbolspagbolspagbolspagbolspagbolspagbolspagbolspagbolspagbolspagbolspagbol.. The more I type those words, the nastier this meal seems to become.

    6. Tally’s Best Friend scar

    7. chicken and rabbit pen in The Smoke

    8. The knitted sweater that Tally got from giving away her spagbol.

    9. The wallscreen software that lets you “choose” what you want to look like when you’re Pretty. (forgot the name used at the moment.)

    10. The magazine scene in the library.

    Things to add to the other Tally Youngbloods list. (Super smiley Ping thanks to Jaeda-la.)

    11. “You can die pretty for all I care.”- Dr. Cable

    12. “I don’t want to hurt you but I will if I have to”- Specials

    13. The heart tracker.

    14. David kissing her and telling her shes beautiful

    15. The helicopter

    16. The white weed

    17. Shay Croy and others coming down to meet Tally when she makes it to Smoke

    18. SHAYS PIGTAILS!

    19. Tallys brown frizzy hair, thin luips and squashed down nose

    20. Davids scar

    21. GET THE HOVERBOARDS AND CARS RIGHT!

    22. An, Deex, Sussy in the sparklers of “The smoke lives!”

    23. The part where Tally is hoverboarding without shoes

    24. Boss with the pepper stuff

    25. When Shays pretty…

    ( More Super Smiley Ping thanks to Pony-la)
    26. oh crap i forgot.. oh yeah! when the smokies leave the shoes for tally in the holding pen.

    27. The doctor coming up to say:”we have a problem with your operation” this should be part of the commercial too.

    ( the OTHER Tally Youngblood) Let me add on some more… I don’t have my book so it may be hard.

    28. When Tally and David hide out in the cave.

    29. The storm when David and Tally are going to Tally’s city.

    30. Sol and Ellie ( T.Y’s crumblies.)

    31. Wrong book, but don’t forget that “Freedom has a way of destroying things.”
    – Tally Youngblood SPECIALS

    nothing to ping about….

    Hey I just remembered… nevermind. There’s this Uglies thing on my wallpaper,but I know it won’t work. Oh well..

    Once again there’s nothing to ping about so I’ll be back in 60 min or less to this site.
    as FRED would say, Peace
    out homie-Gs!

  327. I was mad that Dakota Fanning was offered the part of Jane>=O
    I wanted that part *complains*
    They should do a lot of looking before they choose parts for the people… they shouldn’t just be like “Oh ok he/she looks semi-good, so he/she gets the part.” They should really do looking, and I think open auditions would be a great way to find new, GOOD talent.

  328. ping to the other tally youngblood- hehe this is fun.

    why has it taken us so long to use pings to eachother? 😛

  329. I agree with a lot of the other posters, we need unknown people to be cast as Tally, Shay, David and Zane, but I would like to see an actress with some experience work as Dr.Cable, I think that Sienna Guillory is a good choice, as she’s pretty and she’s been in a few movies already. With makeup they could easily sharpen her looks to make her fit Cable perfectly.

    And yes, I agree with you, Sarah-la, I was mad when I heard that Dakota Fanning would be in New Moon. I mean, she may be an okay actress, but I really don’t like her that much.

    Oh, and Scott should have some auditions in Canada, I know that we’ve got a lot to offer in way of hidden talents here in the north, and I would love to audition!

  330. i deffinitly cant wait for a movie like that too come out. it would be interesting too see the ugly word outside of my head and what they look like as well. and deffinitly as a series of movies would be sweet.

  331. Actually, I think it would be neat if Scott had a cameo appearance. What do y’all think about that?

  333. I agree with Sarah-la I think they should do a lot of searching to find actors and actress’s that will be great for the roles.

    Ping to Sarah-la: I agree Auditions are a great idea! It would be awesome if the movies is made and when we all watched it and the actors fit their roles perfectly! I really hope they make the movie!

    Ping to Kristina-la: I agree! NO ACCENTS!

    Ping to Alix-wa: My opinion would be that I think that would be very kool if he had a cameo appearance!

    All in all I really hope they turn it into a movie! I’ve been hoping since Scott came to my school (This is actually how I found out about Uglies) when my school did a “one book one school” program and EVERYONE in the entire school Read Uglies even the Staff! Then Scott came to our School and it was awesome and even then he said it would be 2 years before he would know anything about whether or not a movie would be made of Uglies! 2 years would be when I enter 12th grade whcih will be this fall! So yea I’ve been waiting around to find out about all this for a while! lol

    Ping to the OTHER Tally Youngblood: I have a few things that I want to add to ur list!

    When David gives Tally the “bug” check before taking her all the way to the smoke

    When David gives Tally the gloves as a gift

    The rope Tally uses to get across the river and into New Pretty Town in the beginning of the book

    When Peris visits Tally in Uglyville

    The whole in the wall that lets pretties get what they want

    ok That’s it for now! I really hope theirs a movie and sry It’s been a long time since I’ve Posted!

  334. An, Deex, Sussy in the sparklers of “The smoke lives!”
    An, Deex, Sussy in the sparklers of “The smoke lives!”
    An, Deex, Sussy in the sparklers of “The smoke lives!”
    An, Deex, Sussy in the sparklers of “The smoke lives!”

    i reckon this a really significant part, the whole meaning behind it and everything, like their still striving and alive. i SHOULD be in the movie.

  335. Ping to the OTHER Tally Youngblood: “I’m Tally Youngblood, make me pretty.”
    i completely and utterly agree with you , it would be such an amazing cliff-hanger ending.

    it hasn’t even been made totally official and I’m already bubbly with joy :):)

  336. ok, i just got mind-rain yesterday… i loved the shay ones but after reading one of the others where the writers worshiped the grouing tally walked on, i was about to throw up.
    Ping to everyone:(including u, scott-la) Do you all agree that Shay was in love with Tally? did you make it to be that way, scott-la? i thought i suspected it, but then after uglies i just thought that it was pretty friendship……
    Ping to the OTHER tally youngblood: y do capitalizing? it just takes up time…. anyway i must start calling u tOty, becuz ur name is much too long… and im not sure i would wanna be albert einstien, for a few reasons:
    1. He had crazy hair(not that i really care about my hair or anything like that)
    2. When you know everything, then there is nothing left to learn, and then life would be boring. in my opinion, you learn more on the road to getting somewhere then you do just by being there. Like, if you were gonna try to travel from N.Y.C to Georgia, then if you just teleported there, you wouldn’t see all of the new and interesting things on the way down….
    wow. i just had an Anne Frank-like moment of inspiration*shudder*, i love to write, but i HATED anne frank’s constant monolouges about things that don’t even make sense…
    Ping to Sara-la: yes, it is both of our faults, but, as she is my mother, i have to work for it. oh well!
    Ping to those who have Mind Rain: don’t you love Robin Wasserman’s insight an Shay! Finally, someone who gets what im saying!!!
    Ping tomy evil sinus infection: I HATE YOU! MAKING MY NOSE EVEN STUFFIER THAN IT USUALLY IS…. and then when i have to blow my nose, it doesn’t even come out! so i am stuck with eveil snottiness in my nose…and it makes me all congested and what not…..

  337. I watched Independence Day last night, and it was cool, wierd, and hilarious at the same time. I LOVE YOU WILL SMITH!!!!!!

  338. Ping to Amber-la:
    If they go with the open auditions, though, we’d have to make them do it all over. They could do them in California, New York, Florida, other places in the Mid-west and South.
    Ping to Alix-wa:
    They could have open auditions in Canada, too, but like Kristina-la said, they can’t really have different accents in the movie. They are all supposed to be the same, more or less.

  339. pING TO aLEXANDERA: YEAH, THAT would be soo cool! that is why i think that the movies should be seperate…. because the last lines end them so perfectyl…
    Ping to tOty: do u remember ur new name? good. anyway, i have another thing to add to ur list:
    1. Croy riding back with Tally and Shay at the end of Uglies, i think that they should play Never Too Late by 3 days grace then…
    2. Of course the last lines, as mentioned by Alexandera..

  340. Ping to Sara-la: that’s a good point about auditions in canada… but remember, tally’s city is near seattle, so maybe a slight canadian accent would be good, because in traveling to the smoke, she goes a bit up into the Canadian Rockies..

  341. Ping to Pony-la:
    I saw Independence Day after in sixth grade I had to memorize the speech the president gave in the movie. I actually just found the paper on it yesterday, and I think I threw it out… oh well. Anyways, I LOVE WILL SMITH TOO!!!!

  342. Ping to Pony-la:
    You’re right… th northern accent-thing would be a point, so maybe David should have a stonger accent than the rest of them because he’s lived there for so long..?
    I don’t know, just a thought.

  343. Ping to Sara-la: Yeah, the speech he gave was pretty cool… yet i can’t imagine a school wanting to use it. My sister is doing the drama class in high school, and in 9th grade they had to do a monolouge.. hers was shortened because of her disability, but i think that if we get to choose, i will do Tally’s Manifesto, the last chapter of Specials… and Will Smith is soo cute and soooo funny…. and i totally forgot about how David should have a stronger accent. I just try to forget about david, becuz he is a Shay-hater…. therefore i must hate him.

  345. Ping to Pony-la:
    Just for the record, its Sarah-la, not Sara-la. And he doesn’t hate Shay; he just doesn’t /love/ her. There is a difference in that. He is a good guy through the whole series, past the part where his home is destroyed.

  346. Yay! This is so happy-making! Just last night I was telling someone how you should make a movie about the Uglies and I didn’t realize you were! I agree with everyone that Tally and Shay and most of the others should be unknown, save Dr. Cable(i think Nicole Kidman would be a great suggestion or Tilda Swinton too). I LOVE all of these books. You did an amzing job writing them. Just don’t let the producers ruin anything, like they sometimes do to books turned movies(most recently My Sister’s Keeper)

  348. Pings to everybody: As you can see I wasn’t back in 60 min or less. My mom temporarily banned me from the computer until now bu I’m back so I’m gonna post. Forgot to add thank the good Lord for Copy and pasting!

    Oh! 😮 I just remembered, I found a book to read and it’s not Midnighters or Peeps(though I DID find it as I was looking for PEEPS) it’s not even by Scott-la! (gasps) it’s called Skinned by Robin Wasserman. Sound familiar? It’s advertised in the back of Bogus to Bubbly and when I read the summary and saw that Scott-la’s name was on it as a review I knew I had to read it.
    Here’s the summary and the 1st page really lures you in. Just like UGLIES!

    Lia Kahn was perfect: rich, beautiful, popular.
    Until the accident that nearly killed her.
    Now she has been downloaded into a new body that only looks human. Lia will never feel pain again, she will never age, and she can’t ever truly die.
    But some miracles come at a price. . .

    Sound interesting yet? Okay. Here’s what Scott-la said:

    “A spellbinding story about loss, rebirth, and finding out who we really are inside. This intense and moving novel will wind up under your skin.”

    – SCOTT WESTERFELD New York Times bestselling author of the Uglies series.

    I’m going to check and see if Scott-la posted so bye!

  350. Oh and by the way does anyone else here write? Like, little stories or anything? I do, and I need inspiration… my current story is going nowhere right now and my friend is pressuring me to write ‘MORE MORE MORE!!!’ Anyone have advice? I know I’m ok at story ideas, then I write like 4 pages, then it gets nowhere after that. So far, I have about two 2-3 page chapters to this one… Any help? D:

    Oh! I remember… sorta… well I had two things to say, and one was a song that would be good for pretties, when Zane is dying, the song Nineteen Stars, by Meg & Dia. And the other thing I wanted to say was a quote, but I don’t remember what it was yet… So hang on 😀

  351. Ok well I just thought of something now, that had to be added to the OTHER Tally Youngblood’s list… its when David gives Tally the leather gloves that Shay notices. Still can’t remember the quote.

  352. arg people Canadians do NOT have an accent
    Im sorrey but that just makes me pissed when people say we do. No one says eh! I have never herd anyone here say that.
    when I said accent
    has any of you even talked to a canadian. we talk the same as you except we prononce roof properly.

    I mean no ofense this topic just annoys me

  353. so it seems pretty obvious that
    we all agree that nicole kidman or Tilda Swinton should play Dr. Cable….so any producers checking this blog out, keep that in mind

  354. Sarah-la:
    Skin color is mentioned when they’re messing with Shay’s face on the wall screen while Shay anxiously tugged her belly ring, she wanted to go boarding while Tally wanted to make some outrageous faces. The whole, “I like the wild side better bit”.

    The skin color thing is mentioned and Tally has a shiver that runs through her, because she can’t imagine wars ever starting because people looked different.

    And as for the story thing, Sarah, I’m the same exact way!

  355. Ping to Haley Rae:
    Yeah… I just realized the skin color thing. And stories are totally bogus when they go no where!

    General Ping:
    I just finished reading Uglies… again… so on to Pretties… again!

    **Does anyone know who is on the cover of Pretties? Especially the girl? I know some say its Tally, but Shay got the counter-clockwise diamonds put in, and the girl on the cover has diamonds in her eyes… and I’m guessing the guy on the cover is Zane, with whichever girl she is.

  356. this movie would be epic. the music should be done by e.s. posthummus, just saying, it’s amazing.

    ping to the other tally youngblood haha I LOVED YOUR LIST!

    ya but back to the point, i agree, like every other uglies lover that shay and tally need to be unknowners, it will just give the audience a chance to adapt to them as these characters and not characters from other movies and get the chance to see them as actual uglies.

    i remember reading these books about 2 and half years ago and though, hm i should write to like george or steven or peter and ask them to do this.

    ya, but scott i love your books. i read peeps after i read this series and i was like YES i love it, a sequel needs to come out.

    the smoke lives ;]

  357. i hate double posting but i i forgot
    i love tilda but i don’t think she coud pull off dr cable,
    nicole kidman could, she proved that one in golden compass
    but someone scary beautiful needs to play her.

    ah i am so excited this might be made into a movie.

  358. Back with more to add to the list. My frien Anea-la and Scott-la helped me with this one though.
    32. Tally nearly dieing when shes at the cliff
    33. Her throwing the locket in the fire
    34. Everyone leaving there shoes in the pen
    35. When Croy is just convincing Shay that Tally wasn’t helping Special Cricumstances that two of them come up and take her to Dr. Cable, telling her what a good job she did.
    36. When Tally steals the hoverboard from the roof
    well I have to go, add more later! Jaeda-la

  359. wow.
    lots of comments.
    ping to Lilah-wa: I think all actors have to have at least some makeup on, cuz it they don’t, the lights will wash out their features. (once i forgot to use eyebrow pencil for an dance competition. No eyebrows! haha, it was sad.)
    but they shouldn’t cake it on, like, to get rid of all the pores and stuff. just get the makeup artist to lighten up on the foundation.
    and yea, i think the skin color thing is sorta confusing, cuz all the actors will either have to be a mix of like, um, idk wat they are. or they’ll need to get spray tans or something. but then theyll be orange…idk.
    tho paramore is definetely not on my ‘likey likey list’,
    i hav to admit they are good for soundtracks. so note that producers!
    i guess MCR would be too dark though, cuz tally isnt emo…FOB and AAR r still on my list!

  362. it said i wz posting comments too quickly. haha, sry!
    but i keep forgetting wat i want to say.

  363. how would people feel about actors who aren’t 16, say they 17 or 18 but they look 16 and they fit the part like perfect? would you fan’s be angry about that? or happy that they got someone who actually fits the part and LOOKS the part opposed to who is 16 and may fit the character? just been wondering about that.

  364. They probably won’t get people who are actually 16. In fact, for the stunt work and fitness needed, they would probably go for 18 or older. It’s a common casting call-It’s rare that they want actual 15-17 year olds when they can easily get people who are legal, don’t need tutoring on set, and who have more experience.

  365. Look at it this way— Bella is supposed to be 16, and Kristen Stewart is 18, and Edward is supposed to be perpetually 17, and Robert Pattison is 23.

  366. you know, i thought of something else that could potentially ruin a movie adaptation of uglies: pop music. ok, it wasn’t just the music that made me never want to see watchmen (i haven’t seen it), but the music in the commercials and glancing at the soundtrack did make me a bit sick to my stomach. it’s probably cheaper to not use pop music, but i guess there are deals made on the parts of the artists, or the music is used to advertise and generate buzz in the movie, but since this movie takes place so far in the future, i just think the feel would be more appropriate if there was a musical score instead of a top 40-ready soundtrack of pop or emo or rock or anything at all really.

    so yeah, an original score would be really really appreciated.

  368. Ping to Sarah-la:

    I agree with u and I think that would help make the characters turn out better!

    Ping to Uglies: They do need to look the age of the characters! Even if they are a couple years older as long as they look the age of the character!

  369. I´m baaaaaaaack! Hi everyone! Ive been MIA from this site for a while, cause I gotta admit the fan art and sporatic posting werent doing it for me. But this Uglies movie news has got me hooked. Its supposedly set to come out in 2011 according to Other Sources, so my friends and I are naturally already planning on attending the premiere. Thats it. No more expectations. Just being at the premiere in LA the summer after I graduate would make my year.

    And the fact that this is the first time Ive checked Scott-samas blog in over 6 months and movie news is up?

    Definitely a sign.

    And to all of you who remember me: Hi! To anyone whose wondering why Im not using apostrophes in my comment even though Im usually a stickler about grammar: Im currently an exchange student in Spain! And there are no apostrophes in the Spanish language, and therefore none on the keyboards of computers.

    Wanna know more? Click my name and check out my video letters to my friend Kelsey.

    Remember the sign offs? I need a better one. ,-)

  370. I’ve been looking at all the character requests and fidn it fascinating. I it is a question on who will play who. But who’s the fan favorite? Click my name to take the poll. it won’t take long and it’s free!

  371. 336 Pony-laon 28 Jun 2009 at 7:49 pm
    ok, i just got mind-rain yesterday… i loved the shay ones but after reading one of the others where the writers worshiped the grouing tally walked on, i was about to throw up.
    Ping to everyone:(including u, scott-la) Do you all agree that Shay was in love with Tally? did you make it to be that way, scott-la? i thought i suspected it, but then after uglies i just thought that it was pretty friendship……
    Ping to the OTHER tally youngblood: y do capitalizing? it just takes up time…. anyway i must start calling u tOty, becuz ur name is much too long… and im not sure i would wanna be albert einstien, for a few reasons:
    1. He had crazy hair(not that i really care about my hair or anything like that)
    2. When you know everything, then there is nothing left to learn, and then life would be boring. in my opinion, you learn more on the road to getting somewhere then you do just by being there. Like, if you were gonna try to travel from N.Y.C to Georgia, then if you just teleported there, you wouldn’t see all of the new and interesting things on the way down….
    wow. i just had an Anne Frank-like moment of inspiration*shudder*, i love to write, but i HATED anne frank’s constant monolouges about things that don’t even make sense…
    Ping to Sara-la: yes, it is both of our faults, but, as she is my mother, i have to work for it. oh well!
    Ping to those who have Mind Rain: don’t you love Robin Wasserman’s insight an Shay! Finally, someone who gets what im saying!!!
    Ping tomy evil sinus infection: I HATE YOU! MAKING MY NOSE EVEN STUFFIER THAN IT USUALLY IS…. and then when i have to blow my nose, it doesn’t even come out! so i am stuck with eveil snottiness in my nose…and it makes me all congested and what not…..

    Lmao!!! i only had to read the 1st sentence to get again that you really do hate Tally!!! XD you really make me laugh!!! (in a good way!!)

  372. I got Extras yesterday and it is SUCH a good book!!!!! I meam we all know that (sorry Scott) Pretties could of been much better, and that Uglies was the best in the series. Heres the “face ranks” of all the books!

    1. Uglies
    2. Extras
    3. Specials
    4. Pretties

    😉

  373. oh my goodie two shoes! thats so cool!
    this series is amazing!
    im reading bogus to bubbly noe and love it!
    thank you so much Scott for writting thse books!
    please dont change the book too much, if you do it will be horrible!
    and you deffinatley want to cast the right people!
    so be careful!
    with love
    rachel

  374. My favorite character of all times is Shay. Why? Because I hate her so much. Any character in any book that can cause this much discussion and speculation is the best.

    Ant-la: I know you werent talking to me, but I always capitalize words because its actually faster this way, because Im so used to writing correctly.

    <3 Still thinking of a new sign off 😉

  375. i have to go find a book store so i can get the series again. mine up and disappeared. or someone stole it. like they did my potter’s/ anyways. need them now. i haven’t read them in about ah 4 months. must have uglies.

  376. Dear Scott,

    I have just finished reading Uglies and have talked to my friends and family about it non-stop. I think its an amazing book and can’t wait to get started on the second one. I haven’t looked at your website until today when i saw the demand for a film which was the exact reason for my email. This my sound a bit stupid but i would really like to play Tally since i think we have a lot in common from the way you described her for e.g I have a frizzy curly hair and a flat nose. I have taned skin but an unusual auburny coloured hair. I am quite tall and thin. I also think we are quite the same in character and therefore would really like to audition for her if the chance comes up for an unknown actress. I have not done any acting work before but currently go to drama classes at school and in September will be attending a Stage School. My Grandfather is an actor and have been to see him whilst filming many a time, I also have quite a lot of other family members who are actors and actresses who i have also watched. I am thirteen years old, fourteen in September however i look older and could easily play at least a young looking 16 year old. I am really serious about this and would really appreciate a chance to audition for Tally.

    Please reply or help keep me posted although i’ll be checking the site everyday.

    Yours sincerly

    Tanisha Flynn

  377. Yay!!! I’m so excited! I agree that an unknown should play Tally and Shay and David… Otherwise… You know- it could just somehow ruin the movie. Weird thing is I pictured Taylor Swift as Shay but with dark hair. She’s too old now. She’ll be 20 next December. I can’t wait until we find out who’s playing who- and when they’re going to be casting for extras if they turn Uglies into a movie. It’d be fun to be a special or a Smokie!

  378. Blahhh Charlize Theron would be excellent Dr.Cable. Tilda is kinda creepy. Disney is not accepted in the movie =P

    O and in Aya’s city “sama” is a title of respect ,Tally-sama, and everyone else is “chan” like Aya-chan, Hiro-chan, but in Tally’s city it’s either “la” or “wa” are those titles too and why is Tally the only one with “wa” after her name?????

  379. Actually Ant-la i disagree here are the fac-ranks according to my opinion

    1. Specials
    2. Extras
    3. Uglies
    4. Pretties

    but pretties is fourth for me too but don’t get me wrong Scott all of them are pretty damn awesome

  381. ok then why does Aya call her brother Hiro-chan? and why is Tally the only one with “wa” after her name? 0.0

  384. i think it would be awesome if they made uglies a movie. I’ve always thought it would be even before i knew they were thinking about it. It would be the best movie EVER!!

  386. hey, i am so siked that they’re even thinking about making Uglies a movie. I also picture Dr.Cable as younger. But if they do use an older women they should use Meryl Streep. I know it sounds kinda crazy but hey, i’m crazy. + i think they should use a few moderately famous people to draw attention to this (will be) amazing movie.

  387. wow 385 wait 386 comments in like one week that’s a sign or something. THEY MUST MAKE THINS A MOVIE. for everyones sake.

  388. Okay for once I totally agree with what he mentioned that you guys said wow! okay anyways here’s just some things I would like to see:

    1. Unknown actors for Tally,Shay, & David (in all the movies)
    2. Please don’t use uber amounts of make-up to make them “ugly” PLEASE!
    3. Please make the hoverboards look authentic
    4.Instead of a set use the real outdoors for The Smoke and on her journey
    5. Small time actors for Az and Maddy
    6. I think using fans as the extras and as Croy and Astrix and Ryde would apeal more to the fans

    Thats all I can think of now so yea I know I just put my little 2sense in every now and then but hey I’m busy!

  389. note to pony-la. not 2b annoying or anything but albert einstein didn’t know everything. not even close theres always something 2 learn. there were hundreds, thousands, even billions of things he didn’t know.

  391. meh. too many comments…..
    anyway ping to …:
    i know, and that’s part of my point. but he was more close to knowing everything than most ppl…… yah.
    ping to Sarah-la: im sorry! i have issues with names…. there were 2 sarahs in our class, one’s full name was Sara Jane-middle name-lastname, then the other one was Sarah Jane Last name…… AND they were bffs so my english teacher started calling the second sarah Sarabi…… anyway i have the same issues with writers block…yet somethimes i will just be sitting there and all of the sudden i have a great idea! yeah, anyway…
    Ping to Kristina-la: yeah, sorry…. we know nobody says eh, but a northern accent will be different than a southern one…
    Ping to whoever said something about tally’s city: Sorry, but i am sooo lazy and i dont feel like scrolling all the way back up. Anyway, in Bogus to Bubbly he says something about it in the maps section…..
    Ping to Audrei-Sensei: HOW. DO.U. HATE. SHAY?!?!?!?!? not to be rude… but WHAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! impossible! well, unfortunaltely it is, it shouldnt be. didnt u read Mind-Rain??????? i am so ashamed!!!!!

  392. Yes, sara palin has badly influenced us……best part of the election!!!!!!!!! i LOVE making fun of people! well, only people like her. anyway, you know what i love???? TAPE MEASURERESRSRS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! they r soooooooo. MUCH. FUN! SORRY. I WILL GO NOW.

  395. i was a little depressed when shay was cured of her specialness. i mean she was the BEST special. totally B.A.

  397. Ping to Audrey-sensi!
    It is definatly a sign! First time I come on here in 3 monthes, first post the same day I had gotten on. Uglies movie! Really definatly a sign.

  402. Pony-la and Jaeda-la: I love dr. Cable in a ohmygodsheismysecondfavoritesupervillanafterSylarfromheroes kind of way. *cough* Nicole Kidman *cough* So badass in every way. Shay, on the other hand, was so whiney, and messed up Tallys life every time things started to go right. First the Uglies thing (which was arguably the best thing she did for Tally, helping her see the outside world). After that, though, it was all down hill.

    With the David argument, pretty shay becoming special, even as a special she always hated tally, and everything she did made me want to smack her. In a way, she embodied the teenage girl in all of us, but everyone knows that the less said teenage girl influences us, the better.

    But Im not here to argue, Im here to promote Hans Zimmer to do the score! Yeah, awesome idea, right?

    Oh, and to whoever said Taylor Swift, I say she definitely looks the part (like in You Belong With Me), but Shay is an intense roll and I highly doubt Swift is that good of an actress.

    Oh, and people, stop asking Scott-sama to be in the Uglies movie. Instead, start asking (insert big time hollywood agency) here.

    Still thinking of a new sign off 😉

  403. Udzir: Scott explained the whole suffix thing in one of his other posts, but I will explain it to you.

    Tallys world is basically LA 300 years into the future. Everyone gets nicknames based on the spelling of their name. Everyone is -la, unless there is an L in their name. Then, theyre -wa (hence, Tally-wa, Shay-la)

    Ayas world is Tokyo 310 years into the future (dont correct me if the dates are wrong, Im estimating based on what I can remember from Bogus to Bubbly). Different country, different time, different nicknames. Everyone gets a nickname based on levels of respect. -chan for friends and family, -sensei for people in the top 100, and -sama for legendary heroes (hence Aya-chan, Hiro-sensei, and Tally-sama).

    When Tally meets Aya, both slang nicknames are used because they are two different people from different cities.

    Hope that clears things up for everyone.

    Still trying to find a good sign off 😉

  404. I think Bridget Moynahan the girl from irobot would be cool for Dr.Cable..idk i just picture dr.cable like her..when i was reading the book..then again im weird..i think shes to young..so good luck picking dr.cable

    And the characters from the covers..of uglies..pretties..and specials..ive imagined them like the characters in the book as well..so idk..

    william levi would make a great zane..hes hot..but..he speaks spanish..not sure about english..and people say hes to old..so idk..
    GOODLUCK SCOTT!!

  407. Ya, mind rain hasn’t been at any of the bookstores I’ve gone to either! What gives?!

  408. Yeah, I think that Uglies would make a great film! Quick Question……by “unknown Actor” do you meen someone who’s never been in a movie OR someone not seen very much?

  410. WOW! I just found this website after reading extras and it awesome! I love the books sooooooooooooo much and if they made a movie I would FREAK OUT !!!!!!!! Scott Westerfeld just has to make one!!!!!1

  411. Now i have a question for all u people who come here alot. how did u learn about wat all the la’s and wa’s and stuff meant cause it didnt say that in the book did it?

  412. well scott mentioned it once o a post but its also in bogus to bubbly.
    and also….some of the famous people(like Nana Love) like to be called -chan instead of sensai…..I dont remember the reason but they do.

  413. i think that the uglies book sereies would be a record breaker at theaters because hollywood should see what happens to people that get plastic surgeory 🙂

  414. do you meen someone who’s never been in a movie OR someone not seen very much?

    my answer to Jordanna would be that i’m fine with either, BUT they have to be talented and ABLE to act.

  415. it should be mentioned that tally squints as she is called squint and shay has pigtails!

    the GLAMOUR of the pretty world!!

    Quotes that have to been in the movie:

    WHAT YOU DO, THE WAY YOU THINK, MAKES YOU BEAUTIFUL
    I’M TALLY YOUNGBLOOG,MAKE ME PRETTY
    An, Deex, Sussy in the sparklers of “The smoke lives!”

    ALSO when tally is going to the smoke..it should be shoot outside..atlest for a bit and not all in the studio

  416. Ping to Pony-la:
    The writer’s block thing, yeah… I have so little done and only one person even cares, so… yeah. And my first name is Sarah, and my middle name is Jane… haha. I usually prefer to go by Jane, but its easier to type Sarah for me 😛

    Ping to Tanisha Flynn:
    No offence, I really hope this doesn’t come out offensively sounding, but just because you write a “heartfelt” letter to the author of the book doesn’t mean you’ll get the part. And there are a lot of people who share a lot of characteristics with Tally and would kill to play the part.

  417. No offense, but did Scott-la not ask to stop asking him about casting? “Where are we now? Well, there’s no script, director, or actors lined up yet. So be patient and stop asking me about casting! If there are open auditions, you’ll see it here first.” And then again in the same post. “So you can stop asking me about casting calls. Seriously.” He obviously doesn’t want to be bothered about that when he repeated himself. I’m guessing lots of people have been saying the same things.

  418. Ping to Tally & Zane:

    yea I think everyone who read the whole thing knows he said that but wut’s the harm in us discussing wut we think would be good for the auditions.

  419. uh ohhhhhhh, too many ‘plz cast me calls’ scott-sensei will be mad………id sorta like u to glitterbomb us tho scott, if ur reading this, that would be totally ok with me.

    my face rank:
    1 specials uglies pretties extras
    haha

    i like them all the same. but i wish zane couldve lived…
    i actually dont like shay. she annoys the hell out of me.

    i completely agree that there should be NO pop music and NO disney. at all. alternative is ok. no heavy metal or classical. and no strate rap either, plz. k producer ppl?

    if u agree with my disney ban, plz copy and paste the following. or do it out of pity cuz no one else is.

    To whom it may concern:

    Please do not allow Disney to, in any form or way, be part of the movie Uglies. This includes acting, soundtrack, or anything else that has not been typed.
    I really hope that you will consider this!

    Sincerely,
    Fans of the Entire Well-Written Totally Awesome Uglies Series

  422. Carol-wa: That is a pretty good Face-ranking, if I must say so myself! 😉 I just think Uglies, Extras, Specials, then Pretties (in my Opinion)…oh btw! go to http://www.feelingbubbly.com to get your own face rank!!!! (mines 86!!!! :D)

  423. Mornin guys. I have so many pings! Well I’m just gonna do The List this morning. ( and once again 4 those of you who ask why I capitilize it is because I LIKE TO CAPITALIZE!!! Anyway, here we go…
    Stuff they NEED on the Uglies movie and if they don’t add it the consequences will be world-wrecking!!! (Oil Bug world wrecking to be exact.)List. Once again, feel free to add on to the list loyal fans!!!

    1. The sky needs to look like salmon colored cat vomit when Tally sneaks of to see Peris. Because that first sentence automaticly makes you read the book.

    2. Two words: pig mask

    3. the roller coaster/hoverboard ride.

    4. Shay’s crudely written note ( mabe it could be written in the actress’ non-dominant hand unless that is, if they write with both hands. If that’s the case just let a little kid do it cause little kids aren’t the best handwriters.

    5.Spagbolspagbolspagbolspagbolspagbolspagbolspagbolspagbolspagbolspagbolspagbolspagbol.. The more I type those words, the nastier this meal seems to become.

    6. Tally’s Best Friend scar

    7. chicken and rabbit pen in The Smoke

    8. The knitted sweater that Tally got from giving away her spagbol.

    9. The wallscreen software that lets you “choose” what you want to look like when you’re Pretty. (forgot the name used at the moment.)

    10. The magazine scene in the library.

    Things to add to the other Tally Youngbloods list. (Super smiley Ping thanks to Jaeda-la.)

    11. “You can die pretty for all I care.”- Dr. Cable

    12. “I don’t want to hurt you but I will if I have to”- Specials

    13. The heart tracker.

    14. David kissing her and telling her shes beautiful

    15. The helicopter

    16. The white weed

    17. Shay Croy and others coming down to meet Tally when she makes it to Smoke

    18. SHAYS PIGTAILS!

    19. Tallys brown frizzy hair, thin luips and squashed down nose

    20. Davids scar

    21. GET THE HOVERBOARDS AND CARS RIGHT!

    22. An, Deex, Sussy in the sparklers of “The smoke lives!”

    23. The part where Tally is hoverboarding without shoes

    24. Boss with the pepper stuff

    25. When Shays pretty…

    ( More Super Smiley Ping thanks to Pony-la)
    26. oh crap i forgot.. oh yeah! when the smokies leave the shoes for tally in the holding pen.

    27. The doctor coming up to say:”we have a problem with your operation” this should be part of the commercial too.

    ( the OTHER Tally Youngblood) Let me add on some more… I don’t have my book so it may be hard.

    28. When Tally and David hide out in the cave.

    29. The storm when David and Tally are going to Tally’s city.

    30. Sol and Ellie ( T.Y’s crumblies.)

    31. Wrong book, but don’t forget that “Freedom has a way of destroying things.”
    – Tally Youngblood SPECIALS

    32. Tally nearly dieing when shes at the cliff

    33. Her throwing the locket in the fire

    34. Everyone leaving there shoes in the pen

    35. When Croy is just convincing Shay that Tally wasn’t helping Special Cricumstances that two of them come up and take her to Dr. Cable, telling her what a good job she did.

    36. When Tally steals the hoverboard from the roof

  425. To add to the list with help from Anea-la and Scott-la, Thanks guys!
    37. When Shay and Tally freak out the younger uglies in the library
    38. campfire stories
    39. When Shay says about Davids gloves, “I. Don’t. Want. Them.”
    40. When David gives Tally the gloves
    41. The power saw thingy for the trees
    42. The tables made of wood in the cafetira

  426. i agree with tally & zane. scott has said to stop asking about casting. and i get that people are excited and that’s okay. but stop asking. it isn’t going to make him any MORE excited if it get’s picked up than having every other fan ask or say well i would make a great tally because so and so. when it happens it will happen. and i don’t think the whole i think this person would be great at dr. cable is bad, because that’s cool and i think it would be a big help. but really, leave the casting questions alone for now.

  427. ugh. it looks like it may rain…… NO!!!
    ping to Jaeda-la:I completely forgot about the last trick thing! thatnk u for reminding me! shay lovers unite!!!!!!!!!!!
    Ping to Sarah-la: i am master of easiness unless doing something hard will make me laugh… im just a lazy comedian-type person like that. fourz instancez sumtimez i prepherz to writeth likeith thiz……
    Ping to Audrei-Sensei: i love dr cable!!! she is soo kick-ass! she is mean, crude, perceptive and sharp. i hated in mind0rain where the guy was comparing her to Hitler and Stalin! she isn’t plain out evil like that! and since u hate shay, i must assume that you love David. i hate david. he rejected shay, and for no reason at all but for the fact that he thinks that Tally must be tenTHOUSAND times awesomer than shay. and in NO WAY was shay whiney! TALLY is the one that just sits around, staring out the window at new pretty town, whining about not having peris, when she DOES decide to go across the river, she whined the whole time because peris wasnt there by her side. poor, misunderstood tally. i wil stop now before i go on a total tally-hating rampage…
    Ping to Udzir: yes, SHAY WAS THE BEST SPECIAL! i loved the special shay more than anything else in the whole book. even the specialness of tally ocasionally made me hate her a little less. yah. shay rocks. tally is a selfish, whining brat who lives in her own little fantasy world of “poor me. it’s not my fault. i can’t have every little thing that i want so i am just gonna sit around and cry.” grrrrrrrr

  428. hi! i just wanted to say that i was watching this show on the history channel called 500years after people or something and it reminded me alot of the things in the uglies series, there was even an abandoned roller coaster!

  429. No problem, Amber-la. I didn’t intend to sound mean…sorrys. Dude! My face rank was like 120,006! Epic Fail.

  430. ping to pony-la

    FINALLY someone who understands how amazingly awesome Shay was/ not as much now that she is cured. but Tally is a stupid brat that wants people to feel sorry for her and Shay had to hold Tally’s hand through everything. Shay took Tally to the Smoke and to David. Shay introduced Tally to the Crims and to Zane. Shay even let Tally be a Cutter after EVERYTHING Tally did to her. If i was Shay-la i would like never have forgiven Tally. . . . maybe.

    “I don’t want to hurt you, but I will if I have to.”

  434. o em gee guys. someone messed up the copy and paste thing. its “you can die UGLY for all i care”. not “you can die PRETTY.” cuz dying pretty would be better, rite?

    TEENAGERS SCARE THE LIVING FISH OUT OF ME.

    yea!

  435. Uglies is an amazing book! And I think that means it has to be an amazing movie! I really think that the leads of Tally & Shea should be unknowns. People that are literally really good but haven’t gotten many things yet. Maybe somsone that has been in little things but still fairly unknown. I think the special effects are really important in this movie as well!!!!!!!!
    I think that Dr. Cable should be a well known actress!! That would defenitely put a twist to things. And if you found people that were familiar with the series so they could make the characters great!!!

    I can’t wait till Uglies comes out!! 🙂

  436. LOL yeah dying pretty wouldn’t be all that bad. and it is you can die ugly for all i care.

    “I don’t want to hurt you, but I will if I have to.”

  437. I’m standing strong with my opinion that Charlize Theron should play Dr.Cable and hey, she is a well known actress maybe not totally huge but still

    “I don’t want to hurt you, but I will if I hav to.”

  439. and who is on the cover of bogus to bubbly?

    “I don’t want to hurt you, but I will if I have to.”

  440. I really really really really hope they don’t put all three books in one movie. Cuz then they would have to cut out a lot of good parts, and that would really stink!

  441. I would be sooooooooooo mad if they made it just one movie there is so much info in all of them that would be left of. If they made it just one movie i would be sad =(

  442. exactly. the story needs to be kept. anyone see eragon? or inkheart? story not followed and the fans were VERY mad. so please keep the story intact. no need to add ridiculous romance, or action. these books already has it.

  443. Jordanna: Unknown means just that–not well known. They should obviously have acting experience, but that doesnt necessarily mean movies. i.e. Zachary Quinto kicked ass in Star Trek even though it was technically his big screen debut; he has heck of experience on TV shows.

    Excited Person: Were just smart or we read Scotts post that explained everything.

    Riva-la: You dont think pop music would perfectly embody New Pretty Town? Club music isnt deep enough, and pop music sells soundtracks.

    Oh, and people. Read the posts before you ask questions. And to the person who wrote the really long list that I had a too short attention span to read: its not going to happen. Im sorry, but theres only so many things the director will be willing to put in the script. My advice to everyone: if you want to enjoy the movie, as soon as a release date is announced do not read a book in the series until you see the movie. You will enjoy it a lot more, i promise you. Thats what I did with Harry Potter, and I dont regret it.

    If Hollywood is the devil, then Im playing the advocate 😉
    (Oooh, I like it…)

  444. So.Many.Pings. Did I just crack the top thousand? Yay! Nana Love’s Party! ( Complete with exploding cake!

    Well, anyway sorry The List was so jumbled. I had to go to volleyball camp ( @ school! 🙁 ) and I didn’t have time to post yesterday & the one time i tried i refreshed the page it wiped out my type. In other words, turns out that they DO change ur old locker combonation. Remember a couple days ago when I said I would try to write a song for the Uglies soundtrack? I kind of finished (incredibly short in M.H.O)so I’m going to post it. Tell me what you think I need feedback. It dosen’t really have a title yet so if u guys have ideas post them. Though it may be kind of obious on what the title should be. Also to the movie production team, (Note: this is NOT about casting just a suggestion) if you could consider about reading my lyrics that’d be great.
    pleaseandthankuins.
    * * * * * * * *
    You need to stop bein some dirty little liar

    Or before you even know it your world is gonna end in fire.

    I can’t believe instead of tellin the truth, you’d rather betray him. ( along with the rest of us)

    And it’s all because you’re not comfortable in your own skin.

    I really hope you look inside your heart. This is real life you don’t get to restart.

    Game Over.

    Can’t turn back the clock once you make your decision.

    Game Over.

    I know that you’re lying what’s the truth to your mission?

    Game Over.

    That’s what you get for makin one wrong move.

    Game Over.

    You really shoulda known that you were gonna have to choose.

    Between the two of us. And I don’t know why I thought you were the one to trust.

    Game Over.

    You chose the wrong thing. But it’s no use clingin to the past.
    Can’t start all over. Trust me I knew this wouldn’t last….

    Tangled in this web of endless lies and dishonesty, I sure am glad that you chose him instead of me.

    (tOty speaking: I kind of imagine some kind of guitar solo here. LOL 😀 )

    Cause this whole entire friendship you were nothing but a dirty little liar.

    Now your world’s in turmoil and the flames are rising higher.

    You’d rather betrat us than think about tellin the truth.

    Well what goes around comes around and now it’s commin back on you.

    All because you weren’t comfortable in your own skin…

    This is a battle I won’t help you in.

    * * * * * * * *

    And that’s it for now I guess. I’m tired from practice and don’t really want to reply to my pings so I guess I’ll see you parasite positives later.(in my world “vampire” is a compliment.) I finished PEEPS yesterday since Skinned wasn’t @ the library.
    🙁 for not having Skinned. 🙂 for reading PEEPS. I guess you could consider this procrastination from reading Gone W/ the Wind. LOL! Bye y’all

  445. Ping to Audrey-sensei: I just did the list for fun O.K? Don’t break my spirit! and I like making lists so deal with it. Read a post where you said that Spanish language dosen’t have apostrophes. Neat! Sorry about the emotion change. that happens sometimes.

  446. Yay! I’ve been ignoring, but I’ve got a face rank of 7!! To the Thousand-Faces party! BUt wait, do they invite number 1,001, too? Because if they didn’t, then there would only be 999 people there, since my guess would be Tally never showed up until the end…

  447. Well, I think that first of all, don’t go through the whole expense of hiring screen/script writers. THE BOOK IS THE SCRIPT PEOPLE!!! That way there will be no story cuts, the set will be great, the characters are their real selves, and stage actions and choreogrophy are all there. Thats why Scott even wrote the book, to paint a picture in our minds, like a mental movie.

    Two words, DIGITAL MAPPING. Like what they used to get all the centars in Narnia. Even though we’re not in Tally’s time, we do have technology, and the only way we can achieve future technology is by using the latest stuff we have now. I mean we got most of our stuff now from Star Treck TV show gadget ideas. What I really think we need to do is create that Pretty-making toy that Tally and Shay were using in the book. How cool would that be if they invented it ideally for this movie? I know that’s nearing impossible, but that will still pretty cool.

    I think, this is just an idea, that all the books should be three movies, since there are three parts to each book. That way they company makes more money, the fans get more excited and pay more to see it, and then you have more chances to pull in more crowds and redo mistakes. all i ask is don’t let three years go in between each making of the movies. do them all in a row, except for Extras

    And lastly I think that all the fans should have the opprotunity to make an appearance on the movies as extras, or just being recognized for all their wonderful ideas, at least. After all, where would this movie be with out us?

    🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂

  448. I so wish they would make morphos… I’m not that pretty of a person. Though they DO have a plastic surgurey software similar to that… I supose I can only dream… Though I’d rather there be real series 9 hoverboards.

  449. oooooooo
    the moment i started this book i knew it NEEDED to be made into a movie!!!!! its soooo perfect!!!
    this book is very inspiring and i agree that tally and shay need to be unknown
    (im unknow!!) oh im just kiding but seriously i would love to be in the movie!!!! oh who am i kidding
    anyway keep up on progress because this is very special
    and i would LOVE to be on the movie
    hehe

  450. Hey Uglies/Pretties/Specials/Extras!
    just gonna do a quick test run for next week. I’m going to the beach without my computer so since
    I have my nintendoDSi if there’s internet there, I’m going to use this to read and post [using my DSi now] so if this goes well and if i have time i`ll try to post during my vaycay… see yall later

  451. sweet it worked! (tOty does does imaginary happy dance.) this hypothesis is tested positive. Downside:my DS dosen’t have copypasting so Ican’t add on to The List. 🙁 so if you don’t mind, please refrain from your List postings thanks!

  452. 🙁 I just noticed a typo in my lyrics. On the last line ( comment 444 BTW,) it’s supposed to say:

    and this is a battle I won’t help you win.

    the previous post said ” in”. just a heads up on that. Hasta Levista peepoles!

  453. Wow these are the shortest posts i’ve ever typed in my almost-weeks blogging experince. LOL! 🙂

  454. wow we have so many comments
    Scott put up anouther post quick!
    before we go past 500!….

  455. One more post for tonight and if i post another comment i will stab my tounge with a fork. (got that from iCarly.) Yet another typo I failed to catch on my lyrics. In line 21 (comment 444) I left the ”y” out of betray. ok that’s it. I’ll be back in the morning if i haven’t stabbed myself to death with a fork first!

  456. lol Sarah-la it’s kool

    Ping to the OTHER Tally Youngblood:

    I have a few things that I want to add to ur list!

    1. When David gives Tally the “bug” check before taking her all the way to the smoke

    2. When David gives Tally the gloves as a gift

    3. The rope Tally uses to get across the river and into New Pretty Town in the beginning of the book

    4. When Peris visits Tally in Uglyville

    5. The whole in the wall that lets pretties get what they want

    ok That’s it for now! I really hope theirs a movie and sry It’s been a long time since I’ve Posted!

  457. I will totally go and see the movie if it is made!

    Just keeping the movie as close as possible to the book will be the best.

  459. Ping to the OTHER Tally Youngblood:

    Sry for posting the same thing twice but with all these posts Idk if u saw it

  460. ping to the OTHER Tally youngblood: i guess that pop music would be good for new pretty town, but not for other places. but i still think disney shouldnt be part of the movie.

  461. you know it’s kinda sad. Disney use to be this amazing thing…and now its just trash.
    What happend to the good old 2d animated movies like Little Mermaid, Finding Nemo and The Jungle book…….they just can’t make them good any more. Its so bad that people make fun of Disney. I wouldn’t be caught dead at a say Hannah Montana movie….but I’ll admitt I still like to watch old Disney movies….who doesn’t right?……..and Disney Channel(or family channel up here in good old Canada what happened to them playing good tv shows like Alf and Boy Meets World(which is my all time fav tv series ever) and Brotherly love, Life with Bonnie…..They’re ALL gone. Whats in their place? the same 5 shows played over and over again all night long. Don’t they think that we are getting sick of it yet?……I mean when it was those old shows that we had seen every episode of it was ok because they were worth seeing over and over again. I don’t really want to see the same episode of Life with Derick and Hannah Montanna over and over again.

    oh wow Im sorrey that has nothing to do with anything important……..I really hope that the producers get the casting and special effects right

  462. Scott, i have a request. you spend half your time in America and the other half in Australia right? well, all your books (excluding the Risen Empire and Uglies series) seem to be set in America. (Bixby, Manhattan, you know the drill) And as a little Aussie i would REALLY like to see one set in Australia! it may not have all the glory of New York but it is still a wonderful place! and with a creative mind I’m sure you could think up something brillent about the place!!!!!!!

    And yes, I’m willing to beg.

  463. mornin guys!

    here’s some pings for the A.M!

    Ping to Amber-la: That’s A OK. I saw your post, but forgot where it was. Thanks 4 that and i promise I will post the list ASAP 🙂

    Ping to Riva-la: I guess pop would be fine in NPT. but i agree w/you and your badly written leagal document when I say Disney shan’t (and shan’t is a really old word that hardly anyone says so you know I’m not joking when I say this.) be in any part, at all whatsoever, in this production. ( though since I’m not afraid of admitting my own failures, not saying that you are afraid Riva-la. I will state that I suggested that the Ed-cam dude on P.P.P should maybe play Zane in PRETTIES. )Anyway, I don’t fully dispise disney, I just sometimes have this feeling that they want to take over the world just like the wolbachia. (yes I am still using refrences from PEEPS.) enough with my ramblings though. I’m gonna keep pinging.

    Ping to Darklings ‘r’ us: Scott-la has repeated to stop begging! He said he will post when he’s ready (or something of the sort.) I know you’re excited and I get that cause so am I but when he gets enough info to post he will. Scott-la hasn’t forgotten about us (i H:)PE) He’s just out there Twittering with some big time agency that’ll help the book sky-rocket onto the big screen so be patient. Our fan time will come.

  464. say yay if you all think that this posting will reach 500 today

    say nay if you disagree

  466. Could yall PLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASE read my lyrics? It always seems like some of you compleatly disregard my posts. Yes I DO know they’re long sometimes but I really need feedback on this…

  467. Seeking an answer… (sorta?/opinions?)
    Repost:
    (On the topic of the thousand faces party)
    But wait, do they invite number 1,001, too? Because if they didn’t, then there would only be 999 people there, since my guess would be Tally never showed up until the end…

  468. Ping to the OTHER Tally Youngblood:
    The lyrics are good… I want to hear them with sound now! Before I begin to put them to my own tune!

  469. I’m guessing once you post a website in the little bar thing below your name and email your name turns blue and orange like Auburn War Eagle! LOL! 🙂
    Click my name now and you’ll go to rhettandlink.com. These are some of the most hilarious videos ever. (like the taco bell drive tru rap.) my friend Emma told me about this site and it rocks! (emma if you’re reading this, you came to the right site. Hope you’re doing better than the last time you called me. anyway, i’ll be back later. 🙂 -peace!

  470. Cait-la: Script writers are still needed for blocking, scene cuts, and special effects. After all, we cant have narration the whole time. Books and movies are completely different. About the pretty-making machine. Are you talking about the one that turns your face pretty? Because that already exists and is commonly used, epecialls by doctors. The only reason regular people dont all own one is theres no demand, and its too expensive (although, this used to be the case with the television, so you never know…)

    Sarah-la: You have a point, but somehow I dont think Nana Love would have the foresight to do that.

    If Hollywoods the devil, Im the advocate 😉

  471. meh. too many comments……….
    ping to tOty: yes! u used the name! ok anyway, those are really good lyrics, although u should repeat the “game over part” which im guessing is the chorus between verses, and try to take out the parenthases. also, try to make the lines about the same size….. im guessing that you are Team Shay, because this song seems to be from her point of view…
    ping to Audrei-sensei: everyone knows that its not really gonna be all put into the movie, but it’s for fun and also to help us recap on uglies since i havent read it in a long time.. my only reson being that i took that one from the library and bought the rest, and never got around to buying it… and nana love seems like too much of a bubblehead to think about that, and on the rare and close-to-impossible chance that tally DOES show up, then there would be 1001 poeple there, or 1002 counting nana love… but what about shay and the other cutters? i wonder if zane would be one of the thousand faces… and everytime you go to feeling bubble, u get a new gface rank.

  472. yay, nice weather!!!!! although last night it randomly started pouring, then half an hour later it stopped. marylsnf weather is sooooo bipolar

  474. argh! i just ment to press the space button on my DSi but I pressed cancel instead so it wiped out my typing. >:-( = evil smiley

    anyway, Ping to Pony-la: Thank you sooooooooooooomuch 4 reading my lyrics! I don’t really know why I put quotations around the chorus I just typed what I wrote down on a sheet of paper. either way I’m going to repost it l8tr to fix all the mishaps. It’s weird how the song ended up being Shay’s POV. After a while I just thought that her point would be best or something. I’m more of a Team Half-and-Half. Half Tally, Half Shay, but all awesome! anyway thanks again and I’ll try to work your suggestions in.

    Ping to Audrey-sensei: STOP BEING SO DAD GUM NEGATIVE OK? I THINK WE ALL HAVE A RIGHT TO TALK ABOUT WHAT WE WANT TO ON THIS SITE. SHURE IT MAY NOT BE LOGICAL, OR WE MAY NOT KNOW ALL THE FACTS BUT WE DON’T ALWAYS NEED TO BE CORRECTED! (hopefully this didn’t offend you but maybe you got this message.)

  476. ping to Audrey-sensai : I have to disagree with you….if you see the movie first, when reading the books after, you will picture all the characters the way they are in the movie and it will leave no room for imagination.(of course I dont really count Harry Potter because every character was exsactly how I imagined them)
    It would also be annoying cause you know whats going to happen.

  477. Ping to well, bunches o’ people: I agree with tOty, Audrey-Sensei stop being so negative! You don’t have to take all of this seriously, a lot of its just for fun!

    haha i just went to feeling bubbly…face rank of 86! nana love here I come!

    i cannot wait for a movie, i know its not even a definite(scott-la said they were just “optioning” it), but its a start! i’m sure scott will try as best he can to make the movie as close to the book as possible, but obviously it won’t be totally right…as Audrey-Sensei said, hollywood’s a devil(sometimes)

  478. Ping to Kristina-la: I know what you mean. That’s what happened when I read twilight. I had been wanting to read it for a long time. Way before the movie came out, and my mom let me read it at the time the movie came out which made me mad cause I imagined R. Patz as Edward which I now know is a mistake. Not that I fully dispise twilight and all, but still.

  479. Ping to Cait-la: about what you said-“I think, this is just an idea, that all the books should be three movies, since there are three parts to each book.”

    That would take way too much time and money! Movies cost a lot to make and I actually don’t think i’d enjoy them being dragged out like that. And some of the parts(the middle part of Uglies, which is mostly just Tally’s journey to the smoke) don’t have enough in them to constitute full movies.

    But I agree with you that they shouldn’t be three years apart! So sad-making if that happens! Its so annoying when directors do that, and make people wait, i get so angry! Maybe they should do them like they did Lord of the Rings. First, just shoot the first movie and see if it gets a good response(it obviously will), then if they do, shoot the second and third ones at the same time!

  480. Before I even began to read the series, my friend told me it was the best movie. I understand there hasn’t been a movie, but it’s what she said! The books are so detailed, but keep the story going quickly and smoothly, just as a movie should be! The upsetting part about this fact is that if there was to be a movie, the characters and setting would have to be addapted by everyone. We all have our own image of the story, but if some elements of each ones concience is shown, I’m certain it will be a bigger movie hit than a twilight

  481. ping to people talking about 1000 faces party (to lazy to scroll up)

    No. Nana invites the 1000 most famous in her town, not the 1001 most famous people. Sure Tally would never show up but still. It is the Thousand Faces Party =P

    “I don’t want to hurt you, but I will if I have to.”

  482. I went to the website again and I got like 70! That dropped like 100,000. Does it just give you a random number or something???
    Ping to Udzir: How do you pronounce your name? Just curious!

  483. Hooray almost to comment 500! and to top off my excitedness, I got Skinned from the library! Downside, I twisted my ankle playin tennis w/my dad but I’m fine. Everyone’s on that feelinbubbly site so I’m gonna go get my face-rank. TTYL!

  487. Ping to Tally & Zane:
    Udzir is the ‘extra’ who runs the moon base in “Extras” and gets invited to the Thousand-Faces party in the end.

  489. Sarah-la, I know, just wondering how to pronounce it. I don’t know how to say it.

  490. Wow, I just finished reading Uglies and I’m so happy to hear this news. I kind of related to Tally in the beginning of the book with the fact that I always wanted to be prettier. I am also an aspiring actress, so if you’re looking for someone with no experience I’d be glad to help! haha. I’m just kidding.. or am I? Anyway, I googled Uglies movie and some websites are saying it’s supposed to come out in 2011 but you don’t know if it’s going to happen so that’s kind of weird.

  491. The OTHER Tally Youngblood (and others): Hey guys, I dont mean to be a Debbie downer. I love the series and am super excited for the movie, and all you people are like “I will me soooo angry if (insert detail here) is not included in the movie!” and I dont want people to be disappointed or hate John Davis and company for it. Just as a warning, the producer whos being optioned Uglies is the same guy who did Eragon.

    Just to warn you.

    Thats why Im saying sometimes the movie is best if you judge it in itself, not by the books.

    If Hollywoods the devil, Im the advocate. 😉

    PS: You didnt hurt my feeling, TOTY, its all good.

    PSS: You think Im being cynical now, you should here me talk about religion. Or politics. *shudder*

    PST: That was not an invitation to bring politics or religion up. Save it for boring family reunions (preferably with opposite political parties in attendance).

  492. Ping to Autum: yeah same here. The only experience I have is a couple of plays. 😉 Never go to idmb or whatever they have nothing. If u haven’t heard, Uglies was optioned to be a movie a few years ago. Just came by to see if there were any new comments. I’ll take that as a yes. Anyway I’m going to read Skinned. Already on page 88 WOO-HOO! So much for my vacation read… peace ! 🙂

  493. Oh, and Autumn: The 2011 date is just an estimate. Five years ago, Uglies was said to be released in 2008.

    If Hollywoods the devil, Im the advocate. 😉

  494. ping to audrey-sensei: it’s ok. just glad 2 see that everything’s worked out. Seriously? The dude from Eragon? That movie totally, (insert whatever offensive word you would like as long as you don’t say it on the site)! bye yall

  495. ping to Tally & Zane

    I would like to think you pronounce my name like this

    if you say you’d but minus the ‘y’ so oud zur. zur rhyming with slur

    oud-zur.

  496. o forgot…….
    ………………
    ………………
    “I don’t want to hurt you, but I will if I have to.”

  500. Scott-la, I just told my BFF about this movie thing and she wrote back while jumping up and down and told me to tell you this
    I think tally-wa should be played by Emma Watson
    – Michelle-wa

  502. rats!

    ping to Amy-la: darn you! you took my spot! you took the squiggle out of ur name too. michelle-wa has a good idea, but Emma W is very well known as Hermonie so I don’t think casting her would be a very good idea. But, maybe she could be Tally for PRETTIES if they dicide to change actors troughout the movie.

  504. Ping to the OTHER Tally Youngblood:

    Thanks

    Hey Everyone I got my mom to read Uglies, Pretties, and Specials lol and now she’s Reading Extras lol and she likes them lol

  505. grrr. Sprained my ankle playing softball. The list that The OTHER Tally Youngblood started and people have added onto I shall put now.
    1. The sky needs to look like salmon colored cat vomit when Tally sneaks of to see Peris. Because that first sentence automaticly makes you read the book.

    2. Two words: pig mask

    3. the roller coaster/hoverboard ride.

    4. Shay’s crudely written note ( mabe it could be written in the actress’ non-dominant hand unless that is, if they write with both hands. If that’s the case just let a little kid do it cause little kids aren’t the best handwriters.

    5.Spagbolspagbolspagbolspagbolspagbolspagbolspagbolspagbolspagbolspagbolspagbolspagbol.. The more I type those words, the nastier this meal seems to become.

    6. Tally’s Best Friend scar

    7. chicken and rabbit pen in The Smoke

    8. The knitted sweater that Tally got from giving away her spagbol.

    9. The wallscreen software that lets you “choose” what you want to look like when you’re Pretty. (forgot the name used at the moment.)

    10. The magazine scene in the library.

    Things to add to the other Tally Youngbloods list. (Super smiley Ping thanks to Jaeda-la.)

    11. “You can die pretty for all I care.”- Dr. Cable

    12. “I don’t want to hurt you but I will if I have to”- Specials

    13. The heart tracker.

    14. David kissing her and telling her shes beautiful

    15. The helicopter

    16. The white weed

    17. Shay Croy and others coming down to meet Tally when she makes it to Smoke

    18. SHAYS PIGTAILS!

    19. Tallys brown frizzy hair, thin luips and squashed down nose

    20. Davids scar

    21. GET THE HOVERBOARDS AND CARS RIGHT!

    22. An, Deex, Sussy in the sparklers of “The smoke lives!”

    23. The part where Tally is hoverboarding without shoes

    24. Boss with the pepper stuff

    25. When Shays pretty…

    ( More Super Smiley Ping thanks to Pony-la)
    26. oh crap i forgot.. oh yeah! when the smokies leave the shoes for tally in the holding pen.

    27. The doctor coming up to say:”we have a problem with your operation” this should be part of the commercial too.

    ( the OTHER Tally Youngblood) Let me add on some more… I don’t have my book so it may be hard.

    28. When Tally and David hide out in the cave.

    29. The storm when David and Tally are going to Tally’s city.

    30. Sol and Ellie ( T.Y’s crumblies.)

    31. Wrong book, but don’t forget that “Freedom has a way of destroying things.”
    – Tally Youngblood SPECIALS

    32. Tally nearly dieing when shes at the cliff

    33. Her throwing the locket in the fire

    34. Everyone leaving there shoes in the pen

    35. When Croy is just convincing Shay that Tally wasn’t helping Special Cricumstances that two of them come up and take her to Dr. Cable, telling her what a good job she did.

    36. When Tally steals the hoverboard from the roof
    37. When Shay and Tally freak out the younger uglies in the library
    38. campfire stories
    39. When Shay says about Davids gloves, “I. Don’t. Want. Them.”
    40. When David gives Tally the gloves
    41. The power saw thingy for the trees
    42. The tables made of wood in the cafetira
    Feel free to add, see you all in the morning!
    Jaeda-la, face rank 7~

  506. I just wanted to comment that I’m always a little worried when books are made into movies, but I am especially worried about Uglies. As much as I love the books and would love to see them made into movies, I[and every other fan of the books I’m sure] have a very clear view in my head of what everything should look like. With it being a world where the “pretties” are supposed to be perfectly beautiful, I don’t think there is a way to cast anybody that is “perfectly beautiful.” Even if there was a “perfectly beautiful” person in the world in someone’s eyes, that person could not be perfectly beautiful in somebody elses eyes, making the pretties virtually impossible to cast. Like you mentioned in “Bogus to Bubbly”, everybody has their own idea of beauty. The only way I think this would be pulled off is if it matched your[the author’s] idea of perfect beauty since this world was initially created in your mind. Just a few thoughts. Thanks for reading them!

  507. ping to kristina-la: exactly now its all Jonas Bro! and Hannah Montana! and crap like that. and they screwed mickey mouse so he looks all stupid. like 3d. !!!
    ping to Aarika-la: the pretties need to hav big eyes and full lips and clear skin with like tiny pores. but i think the hardest thing wil be making everyone look almost exactly the same. but i think scott or someone else wrote that by making everyone pretty they buried really really beautiful ppl.

    so make of that wat u will cuz i dont want to explain and get pummeled by a bunch of complaints.

    haha i tried to press enter and ended up freaking out cuz i wz pounding on the CAPS lock key. thats the story of my life.

    guys should i buy Fall Out Boy’s Under the Cork Tree or MCR’s Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge? I hav a weird feeling that i asked this already…sry if i did.

  508. i was thinking it would be awesome that before the movie starts like when the credits are begining to roll and such..tally should be talking like a voiceover… explaining the Rusties and the downfall of the human race..and the rise of a new begining of the cities and the pretty communties..and should end in a question..like questioning something.. like a summary..but a way better verison than that of course…the the movie starts..

    I’m not demanding or saying that’s how it should start..but was just thinking about it and was wondering of all of you’s think?
    what are you’ll you’re opinions?

  509. Ugh there’s just too many comments!! Scott, make another post! It’s time!! I kinda scrolled and scanned all the comments up till like IDK 400 something… everyone is like “pinging” people, what’s up with that? I know it’s from Extras, but we’ve never done that before… and I also saw the face rank thingie… when I went on I had a 86, then I kept on refreshing the page till I had a 7 lol… so, ya, what’s up? I guess I’ve been kinda busy… like my neighborhood needs some serious help… they can’t do anything!! We like could barely start the swim team this year! And what’s up with our neighborhood 4th of July parade? Wait a minute- what parade? EXACTLY!!! Lol I mean, my neighborhood had some serious problems with event planning and organization. They planted a bunch of trees along the road- they all died. A long time ago. And no one’s done anythin’ about it. Watered them once, and that was it. I really want to have a 4th of July parade, but I doubt it’s going to happen, with like what, 2 days till Independance day now? *Sigh* I could’ve easily done something earlier, but I waited too long for them to do it themselves. Ugh!! I gotta do something! I just want to do so much stuff, but… I dont’ know what happens! I just get lazy, then I’m busy with swimming and band practice… gosh, I need to calm down… oh yeah I forgot I was typing a comment lol see? I talk with the keyboard! Like my fingers just type what my mind is thinking subconsiously! Really! I don’t even realize I’m typing! It’s crazy, I know!

  510. I just gotta do something with the neighborhood situation. Me and my mom need to join the Social Commitee or whatever, cuz they need some serious help! I am going to plan the parade and make some kinda ad right now! Lol I mean really, how hard is it? All you have to do is just plan a time and tell people to be at the cabana then with decorated wagons, bikes, strollers, or whatever and just walk around the neighborhood! I am going to do this now, bye! Lol

  511. Wut’s the deal with the Face Rank thing?

    Ping to Andrea: I agree that does sound like a pretty awesome way to start the movie, but if I’m not mistaken (It’s been a while since I’ve read Uglies) Don’t they slowly explain throughout the book wut happened to the Rusties? Just a thought

  512. Oh my gosh. I am SOOO DANG TIRED! Since I finished Skinned (three-hundred sixty one pages) a little after 12:00 this morning, I just now woke up at 9:27. anyway G2G thevairconditioning man is coming. Got to be ready…

  513. ping to Riva-la: Oh and Whinnie the pooh is gone now too….as in the original one that I know we all use to love and still doo….now theres this crappy Whinney the pooh that is so obvious in the teaching area…..its really bad :(…..bring back Pooh bear

    can someone tell me how your getting all these face ranks?????

  514. Ping to Kristina-la: Go to feelingbubbly.com but I’m warning you, very rip-offish. I remember all of the nice disney shows. Good times, Goooooood Times….

    Ping to Jaeda-la: Sorry about that… I’ve been posting from my DSi so It’s kinda hard to type and takes like, 20 minutes to type a 3 paragraph post. Since I’m on the computer now, I’m gonna repost my song and fix everything.

  515. ping to Kristina-la: haha, whiney the pooh. haha, *snort*

    ping to Alex-wa: didnt they use pings like in uglies too? but like they say message i think. idk…lucky lucky lucky i wanna plan a 4th of july parade. but i would theme it The Black Parade cuz im sorta obsessed with my chemical romance rite now. and then no one would come. huh. oh except for my friends who live in my city and also listen to MCR cuz theyre awesome!!

    ping to everyone: has anyone actually read all 500 comments? like 50 a day or something? cuz i think ive read about ten of them. so if u hav, tell me and i will perform a keyboard happy dance. lol.

  516. You need to stop bein’ some dirty little liar.

    Or before you even know it your world is gonna end in fire.

    I can’t believe instead of tellin the truth, you’d rather betray him. ( along with the rest of us)

    And it’s all because you’re not comfortable in your own skin.

    I really hope you look inside your heart. This is real life you don’t get to restart.

    Game Over.

    Can’t turn back the clock once you make your decision.

    Game Over.

    I know that you’re lying what’s the truth to your mission?

    Game Over.

    That’s what you get for makin one wrong move.

    Game Over.

    You really shoulda known that you were gonna have to choose.

    Between the two of us. And I don’t know why I thought you were the one to trust.

    Game Over.

    You chose the wrong thing. But it’s no use clingin to the past.
    Can’t start all over. Trust me I knew this wouldn’t last….

    Tangled in this web of endless lies and dishonesty, I sure am glad that you chose him instead of me.

    (tOty speaking: I kind of imagine some kind of guitar solo here. LOL )

    Cause this whole entire friendship you were nothing but a dirty little liar.

    Now your world’s in turmoil and the flames are rising higher.

    You’d rather betraty us than think about tellin the truth.

    Well what goes around comes around and now it’s commin back on you.

    All because you weren’t comfortable in your own skin…

    This is a battle I won’t help you win.

    * * * * * * * *

    OK. I believe I’ve fixed everything. Tell me if y’all like it and if you guys see anything I missed, ping me. Remember, Team Half-and-Half. Half Tally, Half Shay, but all awesome!

  517. Ping to Riva-la:What’s a keyboard happy dance?

    Ping 2 everyone: HAHAHAHahahahahahahhahahahaha! My reputation bombing squad worked! My face rank is numero ceetei (7 in spainsh except I know I didn’t spell either of those words correctly.) anyway I’m going to go on an evil laughing spree. HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAH (coughs for 5 1/2 minutes and falls, dead on the floor.) HA!!!!!!!!!!!!????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  518. What if they (hollywood =P) shot the movie/s like they did the Polar Express? I mean they wouldn’t have to worry about tally changing to pretty then to special, the special effects would mesh better with the characters, if would cost less money, and they could get everything right. idk just a thought, i was watching the polar express last night/this morning and thought “Hey, the characters look real enough, and uglies could so be made like this.”

    ping me =P

    “I don’t want to hurt you, but I will if I have to.”

  520. ping to riva-la

    yes, i have read all comments =P

    “I don’t want to hurt you, but I will if I have to.”

  521. ping to alex-wa

    i sent you a poster idea!!

    “I don’t want to hurt you, but I will if I have to.”

  522. I REALY THINK THAT EMILY BROWNING SHOULD PLAY TALLY

    PLEASE SUGEST THAT ANY ONE WHO READS THIS PLEASE LOOK HER UP SHE IS PERFECT FOR THE PART !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    AND ZANE SOOOOOOOOO HAYDEN CH OOOO JUST LOOK AT THIS I HAVE THE WHOLE CAST SET UP

    UGLIES

    Emily Browning as Tally
    or Sophia Bush as shay
    Hayden Christensen as Zane
    Agilena jole as Dr.Cable
    Lucas Gabrile as Peris
    Nicholas Braun as David
    Penn Badgley as Croy
    Patrick Dempsey as Az
    Keri Russell as Maddy

    Pretties
    Lucy Hale as Tally
    Hayden Christensen as Zane
    Heather Trzyna as Shay
    Jared Padalalecki as fausto

    Specials
    Rachel Lee Cook as Tally
    Elizabeth Mclaughlin as Shay

    look them up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  525. i like your cast (i did look them up) but some seem to old
    emily browning is to pretty to play ugly tally but i guess uglies are anyone natural

    “I don’t want to hurt you, but I will if I have to.”

  526. dont get me wrong, I do actually like Lucas Grabiel but, no disney stars…..it would ruin it……Sophia bush….shes like pretty that wouldn’t work

  527. my face rank is still 776. i know it changes everytime you go to site/refresh it but it’s not moving

  528. Softball game today, wish me luck! I agree if they animate it… I might have to go Special on someone! And Zane doesn’t come until Pretties, unless Shay like has a flashback. Thigs to add
    43. Tally going “I’m sorry” when she meats Shay and thinks shes a warden
    wwell thats all I can think of..being a bubblehead today. Later, Jaeda-la

  529. The uglies would be an awesome movie! It would be also awesome to have unknown people play the main rolls. I would surely be interested!

  530. yes NO ZAC EFFRON!!!!!hes an idiot and zane is smart and he would totally mess up this part!so ya like idk whoelse said NO ZAC EFFRON!

  531. I really hope they do follow through and make this into a movie because I really enjoyed reading the books and think this could potentially turn into a great movie. I also think that unknown actress for Tally would be the best.

  532. OMG! never zac efron, he would ruin the movie.

    MICHAELA MCMANUS as dr. cable.
    Emily Browning for ugly tally, definitely!
    Saoirse Ronan for ugly shay.

    all in all; there better be unknown actresses/actors, and there are a few things they absolutely HAVE to have in the movie.

    – cat vomit sky quote.
    – tally’s friendship scar
    – the whole costume thing, with the pig mask
    – the pretty generator thing, where you create your face.
    – shay’s note
    – the visit to dr. cable
    – heart locket.
    – hovercars and hoverboards and such.

    i can’t wait to see if the movie is made; and hopefully its not ruined like twilight.

  534. YAYNESS!!!

    I can’t wait for the movie!!! Like I said earlier, the icing on the cake that will REALLY drive us fans nuts is to have as many original quotes from the book make it into the movie.

    The Twilight movie is a good example of what NOT to do. They casted horribly, (Robert Pattinson is so GROSS, plus, neither he or Kristen Stewart can act!! And since WHEN was Laurant described as black?? (no offense, I’m not racist, but he was described as FRENCH with an OLIVE complexion) cut out the most memorable parts of the book, and had terrible special effects.
    DO NOT let anyone who made Twilight in on Uglies, they will totally and completely RUIN IT!!!!!

  535. pop music only works in new pretty town if it is pop music of the future. so it would still have to be original music, and it should still not be written/performed by current top pop acts.

    i have to go reread the books, because i don’t even remember there being any radio/tv shows. maybe the new pretties make their own music.

  536. I liked RPattz before Twilight, mostly because of Harry Potter. He made a good Cedric…..but that was when he was normal. I guess though all those crazy teenage girls are taking a tole on him. He looks tired all the time. Poor poor RPattz. It seems as though that movie ruins actors lives. Dekota Faning has totally messed her self up now. It`s a shame cause she was really talented and now Twilight and the fans that come with her will haunt her for the rest of her life

  537. God I hope they don’t screw up the movie, it’s one of my favorite books ever. No famous people should play any part in my opinion, because it needs to be supernatural and not familar. But whatever

  540. Ping to The All Important Scott-la: Dude! Where the foam fingers ARE u? It’s been (tOty counts the days on her fingers…) 13 days! Are you dead? Did you commit suicide from waiting on something? cause that’s what I’m fixin to do if you don’t POST! Please Scott-la WE WANT INFO!

  541. I can’t count to 13 on my fingers =(

    Is Tally, Shay, David, Maddy, Az, Croy, Zane, whoever and etc. all white? If this sounds at all racist i don’t mean to im just curious cause when people turn pretty are they all the same skin color or………..what???

    “I don’t want to hurt you, but I will if I have to.”

  542. I am so glad!! I loved the series and hungrily wanted more!ANd I think its good you are making them set the movie as close to the book as possible!
    Thanks and good luck!

  544. meh. no more comments. graaaaagh!!!!!! ok, NO SHIA LA BUFF IN OUR MOVIE! just needed to say that.
    general ping: you know how in pretties shes always saying how zane’s face is so gaunt and NOOOO KIDZBOP!!!! EVIL SONG RUINERS!!! sorry i saw a commercial. anyway, have you guys seen the commercials for Public Enemies? Johnny Depp looks alot what i imagined Zane to be except alot older in that movie, but he didnt look like that b4 i dont think, so it goes to show what you can do with makeup… and in pretties when tally is talking to dr cable, she says something like:”but why do it to their brains?” if she said that, then wouldnt dr cable know that tally knew about the operation? just saying… ttyl pplz! oh yeah and i rode my poni bareback today! i was very happy! and my new ipod is on the way from amazon, i need to get it b4 i go to michigan next week, and OW! FUNNY BONEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!CRAP! sorry. but the new one id bright green. yay! ok bye 4 realz nao.

  546. angrily ping scott-la: y r u not posting! then when u do post all u can say is something about leviathan! grrrrrrrr……….
    ping to tOty: foam fingers? lol. and its allready been 13 days? unlucky……. have u seen the fruit by the foot commercail? with the” i replaced ur DNA with fruit bu the foot” lol.

  547. Ping to Pony-la: I like foam fingers and I wanted to come up w/something more creative than ”fudge“. About the fruit by the foot comercial I haven’t seen it but my cousin has. It sounds random……. I like it ! I did see the one where the 2 kids but the stickers on their faces and all the forest animals started licking their faces. FREAKEY MAN! 13 is my lucky #. Once my b-day wuz on Fri. 13th!

  549. ping again to Pony-la: I accidently posted when I wasn’t done I was going to say Kids Bop is sucky and stupid and ruins all the good non-kid related songs. They should just all gonback to singing Barney and Dora the Explorer. TTYL!

    ping to udzir: Yes, I have an extra 3 fingers I had this birth defect when I was born.

  550. heh this would be a great movie if they can get it right, with the right actors and the right script….but will they follow the book exclusively or will they add their(producers) own twist to the story.

    I hope that if they do go with making this movie then they stick to the story and dont go off like some other books-to-film have in the past by changing the story to suit themselves. The producers and directors have often runied a movie changing or excluding key facts to the story….

    BTW, Shay-la FTW

  551. *Please* don’t let the Pretties look like Rusty starving almost-pretties! I’m also concerned that because there aren’t “races” it will be an all-white cast, which I didn’t think was the point. Though Hollywood is so brain-missing I don’t think they can help themselves. Still, can the Pretties have some color to them at least?

  552. Thats Awsome!
    I just read the book today
    and instantly thought it would make
    an awsome movie
    i have only read Uglies
    (today) but I plan
    on reading preties tommarow
    😀

  553. Thanks for keeping us updated (as much as you can at least).

    It would be so great to be able to try out for a role.
    Being apart of the Uglies world is a dream of mine,
    and acting is one of my passions.

  554. Happy 4th! yay newbie posters! Maybe New Pretty Town will have a fireworks extravaganza 2nite… 🙂 It’s a thought. Unfort,the computer internet costs $$$$$ but my ds doesn’t (unless you have 180 bucks) anyway, I’ll see you guys l8tr.

  555. I’m sooo excited for the movie.
    i love the books and can’t wait to see how the movie turns out.

  556. I’m soooooooo excited!!!!!!!! This has so much potential to being such a great movie!! Make sure you pick a really good director for the movie, someone who can really make the book come to life without changing it too much. Also, unknowns should DEFINITELY be cast for Tally, Shay and David, BUT don’t just pick people because they are fans. Have lots of open calls, but be sure to pick the BEST actors for the roles. That should be most important. Please stick to the story!! I think that for once, I trust the producers, because they are actually listening to the fans suggestions for once. If they make it a movie, I’m sure it’ll be great!!!!!!!! XD

  558. *dies from waiting* lol. TELL US TELL US! Made a shirt. On the front says Team David on the back it says “I’m Tally Youngblood, make me pretty.” so yay…bored. TELL US!!!!!!

  559. i agree with rose “sure to pick the BEST actors for the roles” that means the right looking age and having talent

  560. does anybody know where i can find fan art for the uglies series or fan art movie posters?

    i really want this to be made into a movie!!!

  561. tally’s character should NOT be beautiful, she has to be average looking so when the change into a pretty is clearly obivious and drastic, so they can see the meaning behind it and which is also the same thing with pretties to hard-looking speicals.

  563. ALSO PLEASE DON’T MAKE TALLY BLONDE! SHE HAS BROWN HAIR!
    get the right features for each characters..

    like in the new vampire daries t.v show.. in the book she is blonde and in the tv show she has brown hair..it makes me angry!

  564. the actors for Tqally Shay and David should be random people that fit the descriptions. I know that sounds stupid but doesn’t it make sense? Also Croy and other smokies shoukd be like that. Same with An, Dex, Sussy, Maddy and Az. Also whoever plays David, his mom and dad should play Maddy and Az I think. Even if they like have to where color contacts wigs etc, itd be better becuuse they have a resemblance like in the book. Well yeah. Finnaly came up with a sign off.
    “I’m Tally Youngblood, make me pretty”

  565. ping to tOty: my bday was on a friday when we had no school this year(09), i was VERY happy. my BFF had MSA’s on her bday. lol. and commercials r so creative!!!!!! ha!

    meohoimehoimehhoimehhoimenoi!!!!!!!! that was from Doodlebob! ha! i get to go jump a nutty horse today! how fun! AND it looks like it was gonna rain! how swell. yesterday me and my cuzin painted my pony in all sortza patriotic things… then my cuz drew a bomb on my pony’s but. i thought it was VERY random. and i became a pyromaniac(thanks to the influence of my pyromaniac cuzins!) well, i gotta go eat bluberry muffins. ttyl!

  566. general ping: i think that tally, shay, croy, and other uglies should be unknowns. and then David shuld be someone famous, because he was sopposed to be sort of legendary and mystic, all the other uglies looked up to him. maddy and az should be famous too. and dr cable. tallys parents sorta in the middle. peris should be in the middle too. but the pretty peris has to have a good impression, considering that he would be the first pretty that you see. ok i need to stop ranting about this……….nnnnnya. just fyi the bluberry muffins were derlishiuz,

  567. ping to ugliesperttiesspecialsextras: mia whats her face is too old. and i just cant imagine her as tally…

  568. Have John And Hank herd about this? They would probobly like to know…. im really excited, especialy because this was the first novel i read and enjoyed! it was my reading ‘gate way’ book.

    But, after loving twilight and seeing how terrible the movie was…. you might end up getting more haters than fans.

    *srry if that put you down its just the truth

  569. Ping to everybody: I went hoverboarding today! Unfort, my crashbracelets malfunctioned and I fell so I got a cut on my leg. The wind was too strong though so I kept falling off. JK! I went skimboarding and the currents were too strong though I DID get a cut on my leg because the top of the skimboard is spintered. I’m not giving up though, I’ll tell you all how it goes later.

    Ping to Pony-la: talk about pyromaniacs I have a video you might like…

    http://rhettandlink.com/videos/#fireworkssong-remastered

    It’s pretty high-larious anyway BYE GUYS!

  570. water sports and me=epic fail
    I prefere a tube where i dont have to do anything but sit 🙂

  571. Ping to Scott: “I think that it would be totally bubbly if the people on the front of the books played the actors. Unless they’re brain-missing when it come to acting, then that wouldn’t work out. I think that *Thomas Alexander Dekker * would make the PERFECT David. Although, he may be a little busy making a career. I think that Tally and Shay should all be “New Actors”, like everyone else thinks. I think this would be the perfect movie if its done right. The producers would be REAL bubble-heads if they didn’t make this book into a movie, they have a real oppurtunity here.”

    ~Meg-la

  572. Ping to “UgliesPrettiesSpecialsExtras”: Mia Wasikowska looks a little too old to be Tally, remember shes only 16. that lady looks 20….. atleast.

  582. I’m soooooooooooooooo excited!!! I love the books so much and now they’re making it into a movie!!!!!!!!! I think Tally should be someone that’s not famous, or undiscovered. I think you should make Tally kind of what she looks like on the cover. David should be handsome, but not like “pretty” if you know what I mean. When I watched the teaser trailer my sister thought that she saw Nicole Kidman in there and I really don’t want her to play Tally. I think Dr. Cable should be Tilda Swinton but with black hair. I’m so happy!!!!

  583. ya Tilda Swinton….but I do like Nicole Kidman(we know they can both pull off mean)

  585. don’t get me wrong, i like nicole kidman but i think she’s too pretty to play tally youngblood, and she might be too tall to play a 16 year old but i don’t know tall she is! o and im changin my name to amy-la, but still the same person!

  588. ping to andrea: i think starting out with that is a really good idea!

    QUOTES THAT THE MOVIE HAS TO HAVE: What you do, The way you are, makes you beautiful – David, Uglies
    Freedom has a way of destroying things – Tally, Specials
    Be careful with the world, or next time we meet, it might get ugly – Tally, Specials I think.

    MOvie people you have to use these! and make the sky cat vomit pink in the begining!

  589. ping to toty- r u serious!?!?

    general ping- I think actors/director/script person should read the books to fully understand the world, the people and the STORY. I’m not exactly sure how cat vomit pink looks btw. I still think Charlize Theron would be a good Dr. Cable, her look in Aeon Flux was all “I don’t want to hurt you but I will if I have to.” OOO and i jus got bogus to bubbly haven’t read it yet but is totally excited to.

    OOh and we all as fans have to understand that producers of hollywood like that so many fans are behind the books and what not, but they have to think about how much money actually making the movie would cost and if it would work. A book (don’t get me wrong the books are AWESOME) can create the most wonderful things but we all picture it in our heads, the producers would need to put it on the big screen which is hard to appeal to all of our views of Tally’s world. They consider if they could make the transitions from ugly to pretty to special, work and not gonna lie thats gonna be some pretty tough…….’nubs’????? =P anyway sorry for ranting I hope it is made into a movie though………

    “I don’t want to hurt, you but I will if I have to.”

  590. Ping to Amy-la we were talking about the part of Dr.Cable not Tally……lol Nicole kidman as Tally…..hahaha that would be so wierd…..so yea we were meaning her as Cable ok?

  591. Holy Crap! I haven’t got on here in forever! Haha!

    Kristina-la: I knew you didn’t mean it like that. I didn’t take it offensively at all, I just wanted to see your reaction. Haha. You went to see Transformers 2? I want to see that sooooooo bad but my dad won’t take me, which really sucks!!!!!!

    Everybody: I’m so excited to see Harry Potter as well. How many of you have read the books?

  593. Marra~la: I think Emily Browning is too pretty to play ugly Tally. No offense because you think that she should, but I definately (did I spell that right?) say “No way.”

    Everybody: Anyway, as far as casting, I know the actors are supposed to somewhat look like the characters, but I think more importantly, they should be able to act. And act well. Acting, I think, comes before looks. Because if someone can’t act, they shouldn’t be in the movie, and it doesn’t matter what they look like, ya know?

  594. ping to kristina-la o ok! haha! i was gonnna say that i thought she was too old to play tally even though she’s only like 20 something. yeah she would make a good dr. cable… but i think dr. cable as a like 30-40 year old woman with straight black hair but there are some rlly good make up artists out there to do wat eva they want 4 dr. cable.

  595. UgliesPrettiesSpecialsExtras: Yeah I know what you mean. The girl looks familiar to me. I think she’s off some TV show I watch. I am not sure though.

  596. ping to scott ( if he reads it) i think u should tell the movie producers that they should use the same person for tally through out the movies and same for the other 1s cuz i hate it when they change the actors when its the same person. i really think the movie producers should do it even if it costs a lot a money cuz as u can tell there are a lot of uglies series fans out there that are really wanting to see the movie! so i hope they make it!

  598. another ping to Emily-wa13 well i agree acting is important but i still thinks it ruins the movie if u pick the wrong actor

  601. Ping to Emily-wa13- ya I saw Transformers it was ok….not the best(but that might have been because I was almost asleep(12 at night in all)
    and I LOVE Harry Potter….read every book. and just baught tickets like 1/2 and hour ago 😀
    I cant wait….10 days now!

  602. ping to Kristina-La how did u buy tickets to harry potter if it’s not even out yet, i didn’t know you could buy them b4 it comes out.

  604. ping to scott-la i agree with some other person that i 4got their name, about how it would be totally cool if you could use the models on the front of the books to lay tally zane and aya ( since they’re the only ones on covers) to play them unless they arent good actors! but here are my suggestions:
    Tally, David, Shay- someone undiscovered (not a household name that everyone knows!)
    Dr. Cable- Tilda Swinton but with black hair.
    plz make the actors be almost the same age as their character!!!!!!!!!!!!! also plz make tally and shay look nice but not like beautiful so when they change from ugly to pretty to special u can really tell the difference!
    and plzzzzz post soon! im dying to know more!!!!!!!
    thanks 4 all the deats!!!!!!! I cant wait 4 the movie 2 come out! yay!

  606. really? i was thinking reddish brown.. idk thats just what I picture when I read the books

  608. Ping to Amy-la: Yes you have to choose the right actor. I agree with you 100%.

    Another ping to Amy-la: Have you seen the commercial for the Vampire Diaries? Well the dark-haired girl in that commercial looks like a character named Mia from the TV show Degrassi, which I watch alot. I wasn’t positive it was her though.

    Ping to Kristina-la: Cool that you bought tickets! I REALLY want to see it!!!

  610. ping to meg-la haha! thats so cool!
    ping to emily-wa13 no iv never seen that comercial or watched that show but i have heard of it.

  611. ping to Amy-la: yes you can….you can go online and buy the tickets ahead of time…..you can even go to the theatre and get them

  612. no way, tally should not be blonde. It just doesn’t suit her character
    TALLY should have BROWN hair
    FULL STOP

  613. Saoirse Ronan also has the look and the age!!!!!!!!!
    and liv tyler can pull of beauty with cruetly and so can Tilda Swinton

    “or Sophia Bush as shay
    Hayden Christensen as Zane”

    these people are WAY TOO OLD, hayden christensen is a hottie no doubt about that, but what his like nearly thirty and same with sophia bush and she is way too pretty to play an ugly

  614. i think we as the fans need to make this “Uglies into a movie” more aware to the unknowns..like start a peptition on facebook…or get chain emails sending to heaps of your friends..saying something little bit about the book, that will get them interested..we need to make them AWARE!

  615. ping to kristina-la o ok thanks!
    ping to zanetallydavidshay i agree with ya! a lot of people that some fans r saying we be good range from like 20-40!!
    uglies into a movie i agree about the facebook thing and like all of my friends hav read them

  616. my list of what the movie needs!

    1. Tally, Shay, and David HAVE TO BE unknown actors/actresses. NO hollywood glamour girls!!!!! I’ll be soooo mad!!!!

    2. The actors/actresses should be almost the exact same age as the role that they are playing! NO 25 OR 30 year olds playing a 16 year old girl! that just ruins th movie!!!

    3. Hoverboards, flash tattoos, and all that stuff HAS TO LOOK REAL!!!!!

    4. Tally HAS to wear the pig mask when crashing the party that peris was at in the beginning!

    5. The sky NEEDS to be cat vomit pink in the beginning.

    6. DO NOT and i repeat do not make all the books into 1 movie!!!

    7. The hoverboard ride when Shay and Tally went on the rollercoaster whit the big gap.

    8. When Tally jumps off the cliff in specials!

    9.PLEASE do NOT ruin this movie like eragon was no where near as good as the book ( thats what i heard) and get better casting people than in twilight!!

    10. Script writer and directors and actors HAVE to read the books so that they know what their character is like!!!

    Thanks!

  617. ping to Amy-la: no problem 🙂

    Scott tell them that they should get the people that did casting for Harry Potter to cast for Uglies

  619. ping to kristina-la
    i definitely agree! all of the characters were PERFECT in harry potter. and they can act.

    and uglies into a movie
    yes we NEED to start a chain

  620. Ping to Kristina-la: “great idea, hopefully Scott reads our threads. Someone start a petition and post the link on this board. I’m too lazy, so someone do it for all us.”

    “I just finished reading Extras today. It wasnt as good as the rest of the books, but i’m still glad it was written. I wish i could have heard more about Tallys thoughts though. Has anyone read Bogus to Bubble or Mind-Rain yet? lettme know how you liked them. THANKS!!!!”

    ~Meg-la

  622. I AM SOOOOOOOOOO DANG MAD!!!!! so i was ordering bogus to bubbly off of amazon and i was looking at some of scott-la’s other books and i saw peeps and i thought it looked really good and a lot of people say that its a really good book so i read the first like 7 pages on amazon and was like i need this book!! so i told my dad and he was like well whats it about and all that stuff and so he was reading all about it and said that it had 2 much girl boy contact (if u know wat i mean!) im soo mad i wanted 2 read that book so bad!

  623. lol amy-la. tell ur dad its totally not like that. yah it has like kissing and stuff and girlfriends but not like seexx. lol. basically the main character has to track down his old girlfriends who he turned into crzy vampire type monsters and got this girl who he thinks is cute to help. they kiss a couple times.

    thats it.

    lol tell him not to flip. =]]

    hope you get a chance to read it! its awsome 😀

  624. amy-la: tOty allready has a list and its like got 35 things on it…
    ping to all of my peeps followin my iPod thing: I GOT IT TODAY!!!! i was supposed to get a green one but Amazon was all screwed up, so i had to get a purple one… but anyway…. its awesum! now on my long, long lonely trip to michigan, i wont be sooo bored…
    ping to everybody: im goin to Michigan on thursday and im not comin back until next thursday, and my grandma has no internet, and no cell phone reception, so im completely isolated. so im not gonna be on. she lives in the middle of nowhere…… but there r really nice beaches.
    ping to ppl: meh im to lazy to type what i was gonna say. so ttyl. luv ya peepz!

  627. meg-la: u post more than i do! lol! i udes to be queen of multiple posting! ha poor spongebob! sry im watching the one where he has to go work for plankton, then mr crabs and spongebob sing…. lol!ok bye now.
    oh ya! im very happy cuz i did my nails yesterday, and ive been at the barn all day and i rode without gloves and they r still perfect… lol sorry im so random!

  628. Ping to Amy-la: OH that really sucks! Too much boy-girl contact? To determine that, it would all depend on your age, ya know? Haha I heard that was a really good book, too. On amazon, what did they say the book was about?

  629. Ping to Amber-la: Yes, I had originally thought that was such a cool idea. I mean, stick him as a minor character that we see maybe once in the film, or at the pretty party that Tally sneaks into. Like that guy that says, “Have you seen the piggy?”

    Or something like that.

    Anyway, sorry for not responding earlier, I was busy working.

  630. Ping to Amy-la: Peeps is a good book, as well as the Last Days and So Yesterday. I have all of Scott’s books except for Leviathan, I Went and bought Mind-rain, even if it is only partially from Scott and mostly from contributors with their own stories.

    Ping to Meg-la: Those two books were really good, I’ve read them over and over, many times. I would definetly recommend them, if you loved the Uglies series, because it delves further into the books, and others offer their view on how Tally acted the way she did, why Shay hated and yet loved her, and the difference between Zane and David.

    Oh, and Sandra Bullock would make a good Dr. Cable, I agree. I always thought of Dr. Cable to be older anyway, and I am sure that with a little bit of make-up she would look the part. She is def. strong and mean enough.

  631. no sandra Bullock…..she may look the part but I dont think she could pull it off….I can’t see her being actually mean. I mean in the proposal(which was hillarious)it was like funny mean….not really believable…..if any of that makes sense….it did in my head

  632. ping to alix-wa: i dont think sandra bullock would make a good dr. cable… she isn’t scary enough… dont get me wrong im a big fan of her but even in the proposal where she was supposed to be mean at the beginning she really wasn’t…

    o! and ping o scott-la: tally-wa should defiantly be played by someone unknown… or even better! she should be played by someone from open auditions… 😉 i cant see anyone famous as tally-wa

  633. Kristina-la..you’re 100% right

    the people that did the casting for harry potter were brilliant..they need to do with uglies..i think thats why harry potter was good..

    anfdthere issues were relatable to their age..it’s like someone 25 year old pretending to be a 17-year old having boy issues..it’s just crazy..

    casting should be the right ages and the look of the characters and MOST important is TALENT!!.. i don’t care if you have to make them wear a wig..they have to have TALENT!

  634. THE CAST SHOULD HAVE:

    – TALENT!!!! TALENT!!! TALENT!!!! TALENT!!! TALENT!! TALENT!!
    – THE AGE OF THE CHARACTERS
    – TALLY HAVING BROWN HAIR
    – NORMAL/ PLAIN/AVERAGE-LOOKING UGLIES
    -DAVID SHOULD HAVE NATURAL LOOKING MUSCLES AS HE LIVES IN THE SMOKE..AND NOT A FULL ON GYM SIX-PACK
    – TALLY AND DAVID NEED TO HAVE CHEMISTRY
    – DR.CABLE NEEDS TO BEAUTIFULLY CRUEL

  636. The movie MUST END WITH:
    ” I’m Tally Youngblood.Make me pretty”

    even if there arent sequels( not saying that i don’t want there to be..i do) but it must end with that quote!!

    An, Deex, Sussy in the sparklers of “The smoke lives!” – this is really an important statement!!!!!!!!

    THE GLAMOUR OF THE PRETTY WORLD!!!!! CHAMPAGNE!PARTYS! FRIENDS!POPULARITY!!!

  637. Ping to uglies.: I agree with you 100%! Actors HAVE to have talent, or they’re not worth anything.
    Another ping to uglies.: Yes Tally and David do need to have chemistry. Because if they don’t, the story won’t go together as well, ya know? Also Zane and Tally need to have chemistry, because they get each other through difficult situations and they mean alot to each other.

    Kristina-la: Yeah the casting for Harry Potter WAS really good, but the ages were really off, ya know?

  639. ping to Emily-Wa13 well with my parents they wouldn’t even let me read a book with “too much girl boy contact” when im like 16 or 17!! of course i could always secretly buy it! haha! and i have no clue where he saw where it said that! my parents r like rlly rlly safety freaks and stuff like that!

  640. Ping to Amy-la: Yeah I would probably secretly buy it too! haha. Yeah my parents are a bit of safety freaks too, so i get what you mean.

  641. ping to Emily-wa13 yea my parents don’t even let my walk down past my driveway or go on a walk or stuff like that!! she thinks im gonna get kidnapped or something like that! but also my street is kinda busy but its not that bad!

  645. Ping to Amy-la: Oh wow. Yeah my mom is the same way. She’s always telling me, “Be careful, you know kids get taken all the time.” And I’mlike, “Yeah, I know mom. It’s not like you need to remind me every five minutes.”

    Ping to Kate-la: He looks nothing like what I would think Zane would look like, but he’s gorgeous so yeah, he should play Zane. Haha =]

  646. Ping to Tabea-la: Yeah, I was thinking the same, but I never really thought out for Dr. Cable. Now that I do, I know that it must be someone who naturally looks cruel and pretty at the same time, and who’s unknown, or atleast not that known as an actress.

    Ping to !!!!!: Of course, I agree. The movie can’t end unless she says that, final thing you hear and see is Tally walking up to the warden and saying, “I’m Tally Youngblood, make me pretty” and then it would black out or something.

    If the books end a certain way, i.e Scott making the last word in everybook correspond to the name of the sequel, then so should the movies.

  647. ping to Emily-wa13: he’s not exactly what I pictured him looking like but he’s pretty close. (Plus hes hott) hehe

  648. OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i am so exited this is like a dream come true these are one of my favorite book series !!!!!!!!!!!:):):):):):):P

  650. ping to Emily-wa13 thats exactly how my parents r and it’s so annoying cuz she says it ova and ova again. but even tho its really annoying i know she’s just trying 2 protect me (even tho she does that WAY 2 well! haha!)
    ping to Kelsey-wa me 2!!! i luv ththe uglies series and i was like jumping up and down when i found out that it was gonna b a movie! haha!

  651. OMG!!!! i cant believe that Uglies is going to be a movie the day it comes out i will be there i will go at one in the morning just to see it i love uglies so mutch i even have a plan to make my own eco-friendly hoverboard that dousnt run on magnets that is how much i love the book i am reading specials right now and it rocks

  652. ping to Gaby-wa i feel the same way! this may sound weird but when i finished the uglies series ( not bogus to bubbly cuz i ordered it off of amazon last nite and it still isn’t here 8( boo hoo!)
    i was like depressed cuz i didnt hav anymore to read! and when i finish bogus 2 bubbly ill b supa sad again!!!!

  653. I’m just finishing Extra’s! THE MOST INTENSE, BEST BOOK EvEr!!!
    I kept thinking that it would make a great movie! AND IT WOULD BE. But, J.J. Abrams should direct it , because then it would be PERFECT! THIS WILL MAKE THE PERFECT MOVIE EVER.
    ~Heather-wa 🙂
    I want to play Tally 🙂 *giggle*

  654. Ping to Gaby-Wa: You may be outside waiting for the movie at one in the morning, but I’ll be there atleast two or three days in advance, maybe even a week if the nice ticket people or store owners will let me. I’ve been hooked on this series since it came out, and I will be the first one in line. ;D

    Ping to Amy-la: I felt quite sad too, and I’ve re-read all of my books everytime we do an assignment that involves books for my english class. I even wrote a continuing story that’s set after Extras, but when my computer “melted” the night before my birthday, I lost everything. 🙁

  656. ping to Alix-wa: OMG really???? Was your continuing story good??? That’s really neat! To bad you lost it. I;ve alwa

  657. ping to Alix-wa: OMG really???? Was your continuing story good??? That’s really neat! To bad you lost it. I;ve always wanted to make the movie when i get older.

  658. Ping to Heather-wa: Yes, I found that it was pretty good. I had started posting the first few pages onto the Bathroom Wall on FB a few days before my computer died. I retrieved it and I’ve been trying to reconstruct my old story, but I think it’ll stay in the grave for now. I’m not ready to re-write another 50,000 words.

    And same, I’m graduating next year, and then I’ll be going to get by bachelor of arts and I’ve always loved the theatre and movies as well.

  659. ping to Alix-Wa how does a computer melt??? and thats really cool that u wrote a sequel!

  660. ping to Kelsey-wa where do you live?
    I live in Vancouver so rain is normal, it was a good thing it rain though cause it hadn’t rained for a month almost

  662. I heard if it does become movie it will be released in 2011 witch is a long time from now! The only good part is that ill be 15 (Tally’s age) by then.

  666. Ping to jaeda-la: “your so funny, but i would do the same thing if the movie didn’t end like that. http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=drew%20roy&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi Drew Roy would make a good Zane, not exactly like i pictured him, but i bet he would make a good Zane. If any of you ever write a sequal or even a “aftermath” of the books, PLZ PLZ PLZ email it to me at Speedygee2010@aim.com , I am very “uglies, prettys, specials, extras” obsessed and i would LOVE to read anything about the books, even if they’re not by Scott.”

  667. I hope that (if it is a movie) that they make it right. I don’t like movies that take away from what the book has to give. I think that a movie should be the same as the book, nothing taken away but I guess that if something is to be added then it mush be something that could have happened in the book. That’s what I think all of this so far.

  668. Well that sure is exciting!
    I really do hope that they make it a movie, and if they do, they make it right. I wouldn’t be too mad if they get a few things wrong, because all movies based off of books have things wrong with them! xD
    But they should get most things right. :3

  669. ^^
    Wow the casting crew is gonna have a hard time choosing actors to play characters…and i notice that a few people agree with not choosing older people to play young roles like Tally, Shay, Zane etc. The people need to be teenagers to make the movie look realistic…possible age for Dr cable, Davids parents???

    Not jumping ahead or anything but if they ever get to making the trilogy of books into a movie series, then the face tat that Tally has on the cover of Specials needs to look real. So if anyone has read “Bubbly to Bogus” then they would know that it was inspired by the traditional Maori tribal tatoos 😛

    Where would be a good place for filming the forrest scenes?

    Hint-Hint: New Zealand^^

  670. This sounds amazing! There really isn’t much for me to say that hasn’t already been said – I completely agree with all your notes about unknowns for Tally, Shay and David – though a Hollywood spunk would fit particularly well for Zane, don’t you think? 😉

    Make sure to hold your open auditions in Australia! NSW, definitely! 😀

    Also, filming in Australia would be amazing as well – as the outback terrain (particularly in NT) would fit in with the Smoke’s descriptions so well. That’s just my personal opinion though!

    Some quotes that NEED to be included in the movie:

    “I’m Tally Youngblood. Make me pretty.”

    END QUOTE, MUCH?!

    “What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful.”

    I seriously cried when I read that. David is so sweet!

    I may post some others when I think of them…

    This is so bubbly!

  671. ping to Meg-la i think drew roy is okay but not like how i pictured him. i thought that he should have light brown hair kinda like on the cover.

  672. FREEZE SUCKAS! I’m back from the beach w/my cuzin!

    Holy Crack Look at all these comments! I was just too lazy to read them all 😉 so in that case if any are addressed to me please retype them 2 me. I had FUN I didn’t try to skimboard again because of the red flags. (red flags are dangerous) but I DID get to zipline twice. AWESOME! Weird….I don’t have anything to talk about so I guess I’ll see you all later. Peace out SUCKAS!

  673. ping to tOty i didn’t ping u earlier but i am now but ummm crap i 4got wat i was gonna say but the beach sounds fun!

  677. ‘Pan shot around middle pretty police. Tally appears. “Freeze! blah blah blah” type stuff.
    “I’m Tally Youngblood. Make me Pretty.”
    …
    Blackout.

  679. Ping to Amy-La: Pan isn’t a person. It’s a term for video-shooting ( I forgot the technical word for it.)

    Ping to Audrey-sensei: Hey! This may seem like old news to you,but I went to Books-a-Million today to look for Mind-Rain was reading something,and saw your name there. Sweet Dude! anyway TTYL2U!

    Ping to The All Important Scott-la: Dude! Where the foam fingers ARE u? It’s been (tOty counts the days on her fingers…) 13 days! Are you dead? Did you commit suicide from waiting on something? cause that’s what I’m fixin to do if you don’t POST! (something UGLIES related.) NO ONE OVER HERE WANTS TO HEAR ABOUT LEVITRAIN (or however you spell it) Well I don’t at least. No offence. PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF MILEY CYRUS (though I hate Miley Cyrus as a person. The songs are slightly awesome and the show is funny but other than that, I DISPISE her.) POST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Now I will scream @ the top of my mental lungs. (so get your mental earplugs ready.) AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH SSSSSSSSSCCCCCCCRRRRRRRRRRREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAMMMMMMMMMMMM !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ! ! ! ! ! !!!!! !

    Scott-la, I’m starting to think you have something against me. What did I do? Are you just purpousely against me now for no reason? Is this because you hate Chuck Taylor Converse wearers? Not to mention blue jean wearers? Or that you hate people like myself who make Billy Mays into a Mii? And to think that I was going to make you a Mii on my Wii… On my wiionly the COOL MEGAAWESOME BUBBLY PEOPLE ARE ON MY WII AS MIIS! How does that make you feel now? Bad? Good. Not that these ramblings are supposed to make you feel like someone helping the greater good. It’s that you are feeling bad and I am glad you feel bad.. HEY that rymed! Let me turn on my hypnotizing abilities… Youarefeelingterribleforneglectingus…scottdavidwesterfeldwillhurryupand… Hey! Quick Question Did you name David after you or is there someother reason? OK back to the subject. Poststuff… ramblerambleramblerambleramble… OK I’m done with my hypnotizing. Still Scott-la we need news ASAPASAPASAP!!!!!!! Let me correct myself. We need UGLIES RELATED news ASAPASAPASAP!!!!!!!

    ping to everyone: I guess I’ll CU all later

  680. Ping again to The All Important Scott-la: It hasn’t been 13 days since you last posted but it has been quite some time. Now I will continue to mentally scream:

    SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
    CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
    EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    haha! see what I did there? Anyway, I’ve got my eye on you Scott-la. And NOT in the good sense of the metaphor. Or at least I THINK that was a metaphor…

  682. Ping to everyone: Wow. I can see by how many times I’ve posted on here that I clearly have NO life at all whatsoever. I shouldn’t say TTYL cause I’ll probably repost again in about 5 minutes to half an hour so in that case: BRB! 🙂

  683. Haha. Don’t worry, you have more of a life than I do. I just finished extras last night…

  684. Oh great. Scott, you’re in a deathtrap here. Teenage girls are the WORST fanbase in the universe. Once you mess a little something up, they’ll cry and whine and just explode. They don’t know what they’re talking about most of the time. I say it’s a bad move to involve them in the movie-making process. Once you choose a Tally, I swear to God there’s going to be a petition that alludes, “she’s not ugly enough,” “not asymmetrical enough.” Good luck producers, you’re going to need it.

  685. Ping to Disbelief: Don’t MAKE me come over there! WHAT is your prob? We’re (or at least I’m) not that bad!

    Ping to Katie-la: haha! I see we are both obsessively frequent readers. Do YOUR teachers say ” RACHEL! PUT THE BOOK DOWN!” (emphasis on the down.) in the middle of class? If so, I have a question: Are you my clone? I finished Extras about two and a half months ago… anyway, I can see we both feel the same way about how our lives are bubbly-lacking.

  686. Okay i know this is kinda random but you shouldn’t let the uglies wear makeup. Just plain faces please. Cause i don’t think the city would let them own any….

  687. ping to tOty oooooooooohhhhhhhhhhh ok! i was like, is that from 1 of the books cuz i certainly don’t remember it. maybe i’m just crazy… actually i’m pretty sure that i am crazy! hahahahhahahahahhahahahahhahahahahahhaha! sry.

    ping to Katie-la AND tOty haha! that’s the same with me about the teacher saying “put that book down” but i always put it down cuz i only read in class 4 math and reading bcuz my teacher 4 those classes r kinda scares me… actually she scares me A LOT!!!! i finished uglies, pretties, specials, and extras all n like 1 week cuz i had nothin else 2 do. *sigh*

  688. Disbelief: Not all teenage girls. That was some serious hasty generalization, there. Some of them just want to see the movie become a reality. Plus, they’ll probobly remake it decades from now if it becomes a smash.

  689. Ping to The OTHER Tally Youngblood- I think we are twins! I got told that at least once a week, ussaly more though. A couple of times my teacher had to make me stay in for recess and take my book away.Definatly an excessive reader here.

  690. ping to Disbelief if your a girl than your not really 1 to be talking but im assuming that ur a guy. . but we get mad at DIRECTORS becuz we know that they can do a good movie but a lot of movies just get messed up. PLUS we don’t explode… that’s like imposible.

  691. Ping to who it regards: HOORAY 4 EXCESSIVE READING! My teachers get SO ticked off with me. Especally my science teacher Miss Kelly. My best friend Laura Beth always a: Takes the book to her side of the desk and puts it as far away from me as possible or b: puts all of my textbooks on top of it. Guessing she’s trying to use the “out of sight out of mind” technique. News Flash to Laura: Not Working! Any way, I’m gonna go to http://onemorelevel.com/ and play a randomly awesome game BYE!

  692. horray for reading……4 years ago I wouldn’t have been cought dead saying that, evidently thats about the same time I read Uglies, now my friends all say Im reading freak….of course I don’t really think so, just compared to them, who dont read at all……

  693. if you couldn’t put that together…..I read Uglies and the world of reading became wonderful….

  694. ping to kristina-la haha same with me!!!!!!!!! im mean i like i read like books 4 skool and cuz my parents said i needed 2 read more so i just read n skool! haha! but until iread uglies i wuldn’t b caught dead reading a book 4 fun! haha! but now all iv been doin is reading AND blogging on this ( well that’s what my dad calls it. haha!) i like saying that! blogging blogging blogging hehe haha hehe haha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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    mmmmmmmmmmmmmuuuuuucccccccccchhhhhhhhhhhhh
    SSSSSSSSSSUUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRR!!!!!!!
    8) HAHA HEHE

  695. COOL! i didn’t know when you make a smiley face by using the 8 and ) button that it will make an animated 1!!!!! COOL!

    8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8)

    🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂

    😉 😉 😉 😉 😉 😉 😉

  696. im trying to discover all smiley faces
    *~*~*~* warning *~*~*~*
    *~*~*~* some smiley face won’t turn to animation*~*~*~*
    *~*~*~* AND some r kinda stupid… but here it goes!*~*~*~*

    8)
    😉
    :0
    o) i dont think this is one but ill try all keys!
    *)
    80
    :0
    ;0
    8o
    😮
    ;o
    .)
    plz tell me if there r more smiley faces on this blog! mwah hahahahahahha mwah hahaha!

  697. 😮
    8)
    😉
    🙂
    these r all of them so far

    *~*What you do, the way you are, makes you beautiful- David*~*
    *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
    FUN!
    F IS FOR FRIENDS WHO DO STUFF 2GETHER
    U IS 4 U AND ME
    N IS 4 ANY WHERE AT ALL DOWN HERE IN KNOXVILLE TENNESSEE!
    HAHA! LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA
    LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA
    that song just touches me so deeply! haha! ummmmmmmm
    i don’t think im mentaly ok! hahahaha! no no im jus jk’in!
    im just so bored even though im watching night at the museum #1 with my dad on tv… well ill blog u guys later… wont b that long cuz this is like all i have to do so ill probably be on in the next like 10 minutes! blog u later! bye!

  698. ok i lied. it was only like 2 minutes instead of 10!!!!!!!!!! wow ive
    doing this a lot! haha

  700. wooo hooo! #700!!!!!!!!!!! YAY! HORAY! PARTAY! HAHAHA!
    sorry if im being annoying. im gonna stop posting now. but i think in like a week im gonna order like all of scott-la’s books off of amazon! mwah haha! k well i better be gonig cuz people probably stopped reading my comments cuz they r all stupid and crazy but rite now im just kinda writing wat im thinking and… oouuuhh… on 2nd thought maybe i shouldn’t type wat i think but bye! im seriously not posting agian! hahaha! k bye! (im crazy i know!)

    ok now im going so bye!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    to my blogging friends,
    Amy-La

  701. ok so I was on my lap top while my father had David Letterman on and Rainn Wilson was on and I was like holy poo….he would made a perfect Andrew Simpson Smith….

    Scott Where are you?!?!
    Im begining to think you dont like us anymore :(….well not really

  702. Scott,

    My congratulations on your pending film debut! As one of your adult readers (I just finished “Extras”), I am thrilled to see that your work is being recognized by so many. It is a great honor to have your work optioned by hollywood, and I wish you all the luck in the world.
    I absolutely loved the entire series. Your characters are so real, that it is impossible not to become ingrained in their lives through out these novels. I even found my self speaking the lingo! My husband was confused at first, but I explained it all to him, and now he wants to read the series (hooray for me!)
    I also enjoyed the fact that your main character’s name is Tally.
    My oldest and closest friend shares that name, and I have gone as far as calling her Tally-wa (she introduced me to the series, so it seemed appropriate.)
    I was a little sad to have finished the series, so today I went to the bookstore and picked up the first novel in the “Midnighters” series.
    I also saw that you are releasing the first novel in a new series this October…can’t wait.
    Thanks again, Scott! I look forward to reading your other novels.

    Michelle (Mich-la) (pronounced “Meesh”)

  703. Wow, I’m really glad you got all our comments to the actual people that might be making the movie! I hope they really make it cause that’d be fantastic! 😀 😀

    I made a fan trailer for the first book UGLIES after reading the last three books! 😀 I’d really love it if you could take a look!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36I4TT25mL4

    I wonder what the hoverboard designs are gonna look like? That’ll be interesting to see!

    Ack, can’t wait! 😀 Hope to hear more news about the UGLIES movie! ;D Oh and your new book looks really awesome! I have to read it! 😀

    Lots of luck and awesomeness from Tokyo, Japan!

    xoxo Anna-la!

  704. ping to Anna-La WOW! u live in Japan!!!!!!! that’s so cool! my dad went to Tokyo on a business trip! he said that it was really cool! When the spell Tokyo y is it pronounced like Tok-i-yo instead of Tok-yo??? 8) 🙂 😉 ;o

  706. Sup peeps!? Some pings 4 the mornin.

    ping to Amy-La:omigosh i just remembered something oil bug world-wrecking! I haven’t been doing my signatuure smiley after every post!!! And I’ve been doing that since the 1st day of 5th grade! guess I’ll start now. Those are the funniest things evr! here’s my smiley.

    [=｜:-)> tada! it’s Abe Lincoln!

    youlike?

    ping to Kristina-la: did you c whut I said to Scott-la? He will be so angry @ me I’ll tell u that….

  708. ping to the OTHER Tally Youngblood LUV the Abe Lincoln smiley!
    this is a smiley creature thing:

    BUNNY!

    (\__/)
    l . . l
    ( =.=)
    (“)__(“)
    l l>>>> (the arrows make a tail)
    (”)^^(“)

    8)
    😉
    🙂
    😮

  709. hey!!! the message messed it all up! no fair! now the bunny doesn’t look rite! it took away some spaces from the middle! AAARRRGGGG!

  710. Movie?
    Yes, PLEASE, yes.
    I think, that the tech is also as correct as can be, the hoverboarding for example is VERY critical to the movie, right?

  711. Ping to Anna-la,
    Your trailer was AMAZING, keep up the work, can’t wait for the others!
    –Amber-la

  714. ok there is another Amy-La so at the end of all of my meesages i’ll put a smiley face and i’ll say a rhyme cuz i love to rhyme! 8)
    A Pig’ll
    Wiggle
    If you Tiggle
    hehe!
    8)

  715. ping to Amy-La: no offence but yur rimes creep me out so why don’t you just do a bunch of smileys 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂

    yay!!!!!!!

    meluvsthewunnybabbitt!

    ping to anna-la: I will watch your vid momentarily. seems awesum.

  717. Ping 2 everybodiez: yay Harry Potter’s on! I’m being confused since I haven’t read any of the books since 4th and 5th grade but it’s one of the Best Series Ever in M.H.O.

    Ping to Amy-la: I’m relieved… LOL

    Ping to Anna-la: Oh.My.Gosh. Dude that was FAWESUM!!! It gave my CHILLS! Question from the tech impaired: I haven’t been able to figure it out… How do you get all of the video clips and save them and how do you form them all 2 gether. I wanted to make my own trailer like that but I haven’t figured out how. Please respond!!!!!!

    -tOty aka the Tech impaired teen. (unless it involves itunes.)

    BYE YALL! Don’t forget your Smileys! 🙂

  718. IM SO EXCITED FOR THE MOVIE! and if u ppls like Uglies, u will probably like the movie Surrogates as well! im not being a traitor!!! just saying that you should watch the trailer. There are peices of it from Anna-la’s trailer (which was AWSOME btw). C u all at the premier!!! 🙂 🙂 🙂 😀

  719. i dont know the name but as i was reading i thought tally or shay could be the girl who plays Juno i love her or maybe the girl that will play emily on the twilight movies i dont know i just had to brodcast that thought email me any ideas any one thinks at starbright@insightbb.com

  724. I KNow….HARRY POTTER WOOT!…….3 DAYZ!
    I dont think I can wait any longer…Im gonna go insane!
    whoz going to the premier

  725. Ping to tOty: wow that is so funny. I make Miis of famous people on my Wii too. I also did Tally, and all the Midnighters on there. It was a little frustrating thoough, because Rex kept turning out to look like Harry Potter. I think that the eyes and hair aren’t the right ones, and the Wii doesn’t HAVE the right ones. Any way, I know that was random but I thought that was cool.

    PS i havent gotten around to making Shay yet.

  726. Okay, so I haven’t been on in awhile…hmm….

    Ping to Kate-la: Yup he’s gorgeous! *Wink*

    Ping to Amy-la: Yup same here. I know that my parents just want to protect me, but they can’t back off just a little? I don’t know…

  728. ping to Emily-Wa13 i know! and like I’m not aloud to read books if no1 else n my family has read them (i think i said that the other day but o well!) so that really sucks. 8( *tear tear*

  729. the uglies shouldn’t be extremely ugly either..they are just PLAIN AVERAGE LOOKING PEOPLE..it’s just in soceitys that is ugly.

  730. ping to Emily-wa13: the only bad thing about him is that hes like 23 and i agree with everyone else in that the actors have 2 be the same age as the character as they’re playing or else it seems weird
    (but hes still gorgeous!)

  731. tOty!
    I have deeply neglected my commenting duties. I’m so sorry D:
    But I’m back! Neopets has taken up my time too much recently. Wow, we made it to over 700 comments. I haven’t been here since before 500. Gosh, its been too long xD

  732. ping to Sarah-la: It be-ith okay. OMG Scott-la posted RIGHT AFTER ME in the “Various Stuff” blog. There was some Flash flood thing this morning and now it’s SUNNY! I hate phyco weather. Wanna know something KERAZZZZZY that happened to me yesterday? (sorry I’m not spazzy on sugar right now, I’m just glad to be back on my beloved computer. I still haven’t picked out a name 4 this thing…) Anyway,here goes:

    Yesterday I was watching Harry Potter and playing on my Wii Fit and my doorbell rang so I went to see who it was so I looked outthe window & saw that there were these 3 dudes in masks. then they opened the door and walked in and said “Drop the Wii remote” and I was like, “Where are we going?” and they said, ” Don’t ask questions.” and dragged me out the door. At that point my mom came out of the office and handed them my swim bag and flip flops. THEN, I walked outside and saw this van and that it was my church van so I opened the door and got in and saw all my friends from church were there so I got in the back empty seat w/ my church friend Mitchell and then we all went to the van driver Gardner’s house (this really cool guitar player @ our church.)and he lives in this REALLY awesome fancy-shmancy neighborhood and we got to swim in his pool with the rest of the whole intire Youth Group. We played volleyball too and I hit my new friend Maryann in the forehead w/a tennis ball.LOL! Also, since Gardner’s pool has a ledge and a waterfall we jumped in the pool from the ledge. Later we had dinner@his house, went to church, played our church olympics stuff, and made a really suckish looking sign. In other words, it was AWESUM! (Wow my grammar totally sucks 2day.) Anyway, hope this story was random and amusing. I just remembered some thing for The List.
    Not going to # since I don’t know where we are @ this point…

    Tally’s toothbrush pill No one wants 2 brush their teeth right?

    That’s all I be-gettin rite now.. I have something random to post but I’m gonna post the first sentence or two of the book I’m writing it’s all I’ve got so far: ********************
    Chapter One

    I lay in a heap between my mattress and comforter thinking about a time when I was happy. Nothing came. Misery. I thought Story of my life.

    ************************************

    just to let u know “misery” & “story of my life are hitallisized (hopefully you can tell what Imean from that awful spelling lol ! 🙂 )

    glad to have you back on westerblog! BYE 4 NOW! 🙂 (yay I remembered!)

  733. Ping to tOty:
    I would have freaked out if random people knocked on my door and told me to drop the wii remote o.O
    Haha cool. My youth group had a cookout at our youth minister’s house, but I was on vacation when that happened *cry*
    …aaaandd… I’m writing a ‘book’ too! The reason its in quotes is because I never get anywhere past the first chapter/story theme.
    But I have like 2 chapters done of the one I’m doing now! Its sorta-ish like a mix of uglies&twilight (even though I never meant it to be like that >_< ) It takes place in the future, and it shows that no matter how hard we’ve tried we haven’t made any real progress, like no hoverboards or anything like that. But there was an ‘end of the /first/ world’ and the girl who’s the main character is an immortal and its about how everyone has an ‘other,’ or like another person that completes them, like a mate, but not always for love…
    …aaaandd… yeah. huh. That’s it. I’m too lazy to go back and read the 200+ comments that I’ve missed since my last visit, so if we’re still on who-should-play-who then I must not be too late. Haha… yup 😀
    Neopets has taken up my time mostly since it made fox news… but that’s a whoooooole different story. One that I’m too lazy to type right now and I bet no one cares. So its nice to be back, thanks, and I’ll try REALLY hard to stay this time 😀

  734. My friend just emailed me about who she thinks should play some of the characters for the movie and wanted me to tell U.

    Emily Browning as Tally
    Sandra bullock as Dr.Cable
    Zane as Chace Crawford
    – Michelle-wa

  735. somebody random should be Tally, Shay, and David but anyone else i dont really care. make sure they dont ruin the book like they did with Twilight cuz that movie wuz CRAPPY. actually i agree with that one person sandra bullock would make a good doctor cable. anyway bi bi.

  737. ping to Sarah-la:OMG! A couple of weeks before my school let out I thought of the same book idea but like you, it’s sitting in my school binder out of touch, and unfinished. Writers block sucks.Anyway, if I ever complete the first chapter of the story I posted you, (I like to call it “My New and Untitled Story”) I could email it to you or post it here 4 you to see. It started off being called “The Cut Ones” but that was before I read Uglies and stuff about The Cutters (afraid of plagerizing) so now it’s about… a world- or maybe in the future- where some of people’s shadows are like, evil and a girl, I think her name should be called Marleah (spelled “Marleah” or “Marleeh” or “Marlee”-haven’t decided. and pronounced Mar-lee) finds out about it and later in the “Book” they want to kill her because she knows too much, and then the shadows want her to become one of them. Very sloppy I know… Guess I should get out my trusty 6th grade Language class notebook.
    Speaking of Wii remotes, did u hear when the Wii first came out people didn’t wear the wrist straps and the remotes flew into the Tv? I was shocked and I was like, ” What the crack?”and “That poor fancy-shmancy one hundred thousand dollar TV!” it even showed pictures! What a strange strange world we live in!

  738. okay i hate getting off topic… but harry potter…. gah…! could these hours pass by ANY slower??? and i have to go to this french dinner tonight and i can’t wait in line till like 8…. and it is driving me insane. anyone else freaking out???
    can’t wait.
    lol

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    OMG! HURRY THE HECK UP! I’M SURFING THE WEB 4 EVERY THING ABOUT THE HBP POSSIBLE. I WON’T EVEN GET TO GO TO THE GRAND OPENING 2MARROW CAUSE I’LL BE @ 6 FLAGS (not that 6 Flags is a bad thing but still) NOW I WILL MENTALLY SCREAM AT THE TOP OF MY LUNGS (again) SO GET YOUR MENTAL EAR PLUGS READY!!! Here I go…. *tOty mentaly inhales a large breath of air*

    SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
    CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC
    RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
    EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
    AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
    MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM
    !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    YES! I REMEMBERED THE “A” ! BYE GUYS! I’LL TRY NOT TO KILL MYSELF WITH A FOAM FINGER WHILE WAITING FOR THE MOVIES TO OPEN! I’M OFF TO FANDANGO BYE!!!!!! 8)

  747. Harry Potter wasn’t as great to me as the others. I think it’s because I actually read this book and knew what was going/supposed to happen and the movie didn’t really satisfy me……….omen?

    “I don’t want to hurt you, but I will if I have to.”

  748. ah it was awesome! who agrees it was awesome???!!! don’t worry i won’t say anything, i’m not stupid.

    but i am so tired i didn’t get home till 4 and to bed till 5

    but ahhh can’t wait to see it again.

    you could feel the connection and anticipation in the theatre

  749. Hello, Fellow Bloggers(:
    Nobody says hi to poor Amber-la… 🙁
    Anyhoo, I am close to finishing Specials and I think Scott-la should write another book, to tell what happens to everyone in the end, right? Like Frizz and Aya, Ren, Hiro, Shay-la, Tally-wa, Fausto, and David..
    I’d like to see this one.
    –Amber-la

  750. Hi Amber-la 😀
    Ping to the general public:
    Never read Harry Potter, never seen the movies… please don’t tell me I’m like inhuman or crazy because my friends tell me that enough Dx

    Ping to tOty:
    Yeah… I actually call my ‘book’ “untitled~” Just like that, lower-case ‘u’ and ~ and all. My friend keeps encouraging me to work on it… but I’m just about out of ideas, but since she always has some I call her my cure for writer’s block. I have it typed, so I can email it to you if you want… The only real problem I have with it right now is that I don’t have a name for the main character… I can’t find one that seems right, and I feel like she needs a 100% unique name… lol and I keep thinking ‘Renesmee!’ But my email is mana.fione@yahoo.com if you want to email it to me (:

  751. Ping to Sarah-la,
    Thanks for the Hello!! 😀
    I’d like a draft of your book, if you wouldn’t mind, you can email it to me at Amber.la01@yahoo.com

    Thanks again for the Hello!
    –Amber-la

  752. Ping to Amber-la:
    No problem. I don’t mind a hello 😀
    I haven’t gotten very far, but I’ll send the part I have so far to you. I like thinking people like to read it ;D

  753. ping to mah peeps! i think i’ll write a book. sounds fun and challenging! i like challenges!

  754. ping to mah peeps! i have book idea!!!!! all i have is a paragraph and i need help! writers block is tuff! even thou im still like on my 1st page! here is wat i have so far! please do NOT steal my ideas! i just want some help! no plagiarism!

    Unwanted

    Chapter 1
    Alone

    I’ve been sitting on my bed, staring at the ceiling, for what seemed like ages. All this time I’ve been thinking about how alone, and abandoned I was. After what had happened, all my friends, and even my family had left me. They all thought I was a liar, and a traitor. There was no way to change their mind.

    thats all i got. hmmm… im trying to decide when i said they all thought i was a liar and a traitor, should i change it to they all thought i was a freak. it’s clear that i am unwanted.
    yeah well i haven’t really thought of a plot yet, just writing as i go, which mite be a bad thing…hmmmmm…

  755. Ping to Amy-la:
    I don;t know if this helps any, but when I get a story idea for a book, I usually dream of it. Literally, fall asleep and dream of it. I read a ton of *insert what sounds like an interesting book topic here* books/articles and then listen to music while I sleep, and I get an idea usually. Like when I came up with the one I just had, I actually read Breaking Dawn and Uglies (again) before I went to sleep, then listened to my iPod while I slept, and I dreamt up a movie trailer for that one, but I revamped it a little because in my dream the main character was a vampire lol.

  756. ok, no way im reading 200 comments. so anything important, tell me now. oh yes and im BAAAACCCCCKKKKKKK!!!!!!
    ping to tOty: we went to boarders in mI and i got Skinned. i read it in less than to days! best book evar!!!!!( well except uglies) and yah.
    random [ping: i have created the perfect sign off:
    WWTK~Who Would Tally Kill?
    lol.
    im sooooo lazy.
    meh….. i havent slept well in a week. i spent 12 dollars on a mJ tribute mag. WHY CANT I CAPILATIZE RIGHT TODAY?!?!?! THE FIRST LETTER ALWAYS ENDS UP LOERCASE! like in MJ and mI. gah. ttyl now!!

  757. ping to sarah-la: i love listening to my iPod while i sleep! i will just lay there and completely absorb myself into the music…i love the feeling. and the two latest stories that ive come up with have been while i just lay there, hardl;y thi8nking at all, then all of the suddenboom! i have a brillint idea! well im exhausted, so by.

  758. ping to Sarah-la ok! that’s wat i’ll do! i’m about 2 go 2 bed anyways since it’s almost midnite

  759. ping to Pony-la:WWWWWWHHHHHHHHHHHHHOOOOOOOOOOOO BABY! I just got back from 6 flagz! 😉 You Evil Loser! I wouldn’t hurt a fly! (Well, maybe I would if it was really buzzy & annoying,but still…) JK! Not me Tally I know. Skinned Rocked! Any news about a sequel? I haven’t seen any at the Books-aMillions near me and when I go to the library’s computer the search engine goes KABOOM! when I search Robin’s name. Glad u liked it! 🙂

    ping to Sarah-la: thanks 4 the email address I’ll put “tOty’s story” on the little message bar thingy. It’s been so long since I’ve done email. Here’s my parents quick note 4 everyone when putting the subject, put,like, story from, blahblahblah or, to rachel from a bloging buddy or something… here’s my email:

    sharonandtommy2004@yahoo.com

    Okay hopefully that was a link… I’ll email you all once I write more. *tOty yawns from time change diffrences* I’ll post more when I get home.

    ping to jaeda-la: I have a VERY belated ping to you..

    sweet dreams guys! 🙂

  761. I really liked Skinned….Scott has nack of introducing us to fawesome books. Forest of Hands and teeth is one of the best books I’ve read in a while…..not counting Harry Potter and Uglies

  762. Ping to Pony-la:
    Yeah… I just came back too 😀
    And that always works for me, but last night my iPod was dead… and I’m too lazy to go get it to charge it -.-
    I have had some INSANE dreams too… well, wierd, anyway… Like I have 4 songs by the same person in a row on my iPod, and I was listening to those songs (I’m guessing :P) and I dreamed they were at a concert at my school… o.O And another time I dreamed my class was having a concert… and they started singing one of those songs… Well, it creeped me out.
    Ping to Amy-la:
    Hope that works/worked for you 🙂
    Ping to tOty:
    I shall go check my email right now.

  764. ok guess what guys! my name is in a book!!!!!!! my uncle stuart wrote a book and dedicated part of itt to me and my sister!!!! its called The 1960’s most wanted: the top ten book of hip happenings, swinging sounds and out of sight oddities. here is the link:http://books.google.com/books?id=YwOj9IKiUjsC&pg=PR5&lpg=PR5&dq=maeve+shea&source=bl&ots=YiuQLySPIm&sig=VtZrRcASGzhtB0OlPAGutV64OT0&hl=en&ei=30ZfSoR8jsg1vIS4rgI&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4 go to the dedication page and in the third paragraph it says to the future: and somewhere in there it says:”Fiona shea, Maeve Shea” Fiona is my sister, and im maeve!!!!!! wow! yay me!

  766. i didnt do any of the track meets or the running(thats not me) but i did the reddemeade combined test on kitty. i have to go unpack by!

  767. ping to Sarah-la, Pony-La, tOty, YAY! it worked! well actually, i like changed it all, and now i kinda need to change the title *crap* i’m bad at thinking up titles. oh well!

  768. hey, what do you guys think of Brent Daugherty for Zane? Look him up! He’s playing Thomas Pearson in the upcoming webseries for the Private book series. I think he looks like Zane!

  769. oh, its brant actually. and just go to privatenovels.com…he doesn’t come up on google

  770. ping to Cassie-La- hmmm… i don’t think he looks mysterious enough, if you know what i mean.

  771. i like paramore and sure they’d be nice, but you don’t want people to confuse it with twilight. Also the lead singer really liked that book, so they might only do it if they like these books
    also i think that they’re sound might be good for the uglies, but for specials it should be something hard because she’s strong and everything, like some SOAD

  772. ping to Sarah-la: Sorry about the wait, I’ll mail you as soon as I can. Thought of some more stuff today, Time 4 Language Notebooke!

    ping to Pony-la:Sweet! My name will be in a book one day, As an author! Or in a Movie, either way I’ll have a good face rank!

    ping to amber-la: Hey! Hola! Bonjour! Wassup! haha! I’m taking the hellos a little too seriously… 🙂

    ping to everybody: I’ve been thinking about another List it’s called:

    A List of the Two Things That I’ve Found In EVERY (or almost
    EVERY) Sci-fi Book I’ve Ever Read

    1. anti-religion
    2. the fall of Modern Civilization
    3. futuristic tecnology

    Anything else you all have found? If so, add them to The List #2 !

    Darn I remembered something, and I forgot. 🙁

    Trying to get my blog on air, tell you when!
    Until I remember the thing I forgot, I’m off to check email from you guys! BYE! 🙂

  773. i was reading through some of the comments-

    (and completely ingnoring amy-la, pony-la, and cassie-la’s junk)

    -and it hit me weird that everyone’s disscusing who Zane’s actor should look like, and completely forgeting that he’s not even in the 1st book!

    i eventually got bored of looking for a mention of David’s name, because there isn’t any!

    and amy-la and your little friends? stop disscusing your life and get a grip! this is scott’s blog- not yours!!

  774. ping to luv_David: well, it seems that ur not talking about the movie much either, just telling ppl to get a grip 😀

  776. Ping to the OTHER Tally Youngblood: Yeah, I have a tendency to read in class, but I don’t get in trouble… It may be because I’m just about the only one in the class that reads. I only JUST found the series 2 months ago, and had to do my school’s summer reading program before I finished Uglies. I may be your clone =D

  779. ping to Sarah-la: I’m sorry! I’m a S-L-O-W typer and my mother only allowed me 1 hour on the computer today, and I’ve already used half of it on itunes today because my counselor friend from the YMCA brought her big book of CDS and she had Paramore was on 1 and she let me borrow it (it also had some interesting christian rap group on it. It’s now the only kind of rap I like.) I’ll get it 2 u as soon as I can I’ll tell you when I do!

    ping to Katie-la:WAAAAAH 🙁 Uglies is on the 8TH GRADE Reading list and not the 7th! I’m angry! AND we have to fill out a stupid piece of paper! Yay to obbsessive reading! Started The Forest of Hands and Teeth last night. Only put it down cause my mom made me go to sleep. Only put it down this morning cause I was hungry. haha! 🙂

    ping to luv_david: IT’S A FREE COUNTRY! IF YOU HATE US TALKING ABOUT OUR LIVES SO MUCH AND THINK WE’RE SOOO DANG ANNOYING THEN WHY ARE YOU ON THE SITE? WE (all the people you named and me too since I also talk about my life on this site.) ‘RE ALL FRIENDS THAT ARE BROUGHT TOGETHER BY OUR LIKING OF SCOTT-LA’S BOOKS! AND SOME PEOPLE THINK IT’S FUN TO TALK ABOUT THEIR DAILY ANTICS TO OTHERS! GO AND COMPLAIN TO SOMEONE ELSE!

    ping to everyone: now that I’ve gotten that out of my system, I think that my time’s almost up. I guess I’ll see you guys later! 🙂

  781. ping to luv_david: who made YOU all cranky and hating the world???? obviously we are allowed to do what we want, and if Scott-la didnt like what we were doing, he would tell us. and who made YOU the “Protector” of his blog and it’s o-so-special only-talk-about-the-movie-which-hardly-anyone-ever-talks-about-anymore powers??? it takes alot of nerve to come on and tell people that you dont even know that what they say is “junk” and assume that scott even cares that we are talking about our lives. anyway, just to let you know, i mentioned your stupid little david in comment number 566, saying that he should be a well known actor. go look it up while you whine.
    ping to tOty:FOAM FINGERS!!! i was at my friends house last night with my cuzin and we went before we had dinner so we essentially had ice cream and whipped cream for dinner(yum). at some point we snuck downstairs to get goldfish while we were playing horseopoly. then we got some seltzer water and my cousin started calling it sippedibubbly…then we started acting all crazy…so i was hungry all last night and this morning i was too lazy to eat mucj of anything, i had a slice of pizza, then i was at the barn trying to teach my horse to free lunge and then we stayed late cuz some of our friends came over and i was hungry again.
    general ping: my new fav songs are”beat it” and “leave me alone”… i love michael jackson.

  782. oh no no no….David HAS to be a unknown actor.
    Ping to The other Tally Young Blood: How are you liking it?(the book)

    Im not going to say that talking about your lives is bad…cause its not, I dont do it cause Im to lazy to write that much and nothing really interesting happens to me
    but it is nice to stick to the topic 😀

  785. David should be a known actor…. I think. Cause then ppl will be like “OMG it’s HIM” so should dr. cable. 😀

  786. yes Dr.Cable should be a well know actress…..she will ge the attention the movie needs. but all the main characters(Tally, David, Shay)need to be unknown.

  787. Ping to tOty:
    Understood. I shall keep my mouth shut. My mother says 2 hours a day, and I sneak xD

    General Ping:
    If anyone else is writing a story, I would love to read it! You can email it to me at mana.fione@yahoo.com 🙂
    I like stories.

  788. I think we all know what we want in this movie and we all want this mvie. Been tinking…. they should make us producers and directors and writers! It would work better!

  789. OMG I would love to see this as a movie! This is like an amazing book! But, the thing is it would take a whole lot of work just to get all the hoverboards and space things right.

    Oh and I have the perfect person for Tally, ME! Ya I’m not bragging, but it would be cool

  790. I think that Cate Blanchett or Nicole Kidman would be perfect for Dr. Cable. Nicole has always given me the creeps a bit ahaha. Cate also gave me a big Dr. Cable vibe in Indiana Jones.

    I can’t even come up with anyone for Tally though. That is such a hard part to cast, she’d have to be absolutely PERFECT for it and still I have no one.

  801. ping to kristina-la: the reason that i think david should be known is that he is sopposed to be all mystic and like a legend, no one really knows if he really exists or not..all the other uglies look up to him.yah.

  802. I am so excited! Ever since i started reading the book, i have always imagined the book a movie. I think that Angelina Jolie would be PERFECT for Dr.Cable. I would enjoy having someone undescovered as Tally but not Shay. If Uglies does come out into a movie, i will treat all of my friends that have read and have not read it, to see that movie. Most of my friends always took liitle sneaks at my book when i was reading it. Since i talked about it so much, they went ahead and read it and now they’re on Extras. Since finding this book and talking about it, people have read it too. Can’t wait!

  804. I really hope this turns out to be like Harry Potter where they were consistently good, and not made just for money. I do agree definitely unknown actors. Absolutely NO ONE from disney. I feel like if this is in the wrong hands it could be a disaster. But i hope that its not.

  805. Heyy peoples I’m back! And now I’m on FireFox instead of IE :O

    lol ok:
    Ping to Pony-la:
    How’s the iPod-saving going? And David should be… sort of semi-known. Like had 1 big part that he might be known for and other little ones. Like Kristen Stewart was in a few movies with little parts, but she had a sort of big one in /Catch That Kid/.

    Ping to the General Public:
    I’m reminding you all again… Please no Disney people!

  806. Umm, hey
    For all those that hated Twilight, i think to appreciate it you have to have been in Bella’s postion and although that seems weird it’s probably true, ok here several pointers that I think are worth pointing out-

    the film should not be one of those 3 in 1 jobs as they never work, just look at a series of unfortunate events, and i can only imagine what cirque du freak is going be like, which is a shame because i really enjoyed those books.

    Tilda Swinton would be an awesome Dr. Cable, though isn’t she a little too i hate to say it… Ugly for the role? Considering she should have had the operation… but then again i couldn’t see anyone like jolie or knightly in the role either. Helen mirren would be awesome but shes too old for it 🙁

    Someone also said that Shane West would be a good david. trust me, google image him, he’s very close to how i imagine david. Zane on the other hand would be trickier, someone i know would be ideal for him, and he’s sixteen in january, though he looks about fourteen to me. If i said a Jonas looking type character would everyone scream at me? It’s just how I see Zane in my head.

    As for Tally and Shay, they would probably have to be open audtioned, though wouldn’t Dakota Fanning be a good shay if she weren’t in the golden compass? (That film sucked so badly, but also because she’s in Twilight)

    I would have said Rob Pattinson would have made a good david if it weren’t for his role as edward (Personally I thought of edward as being more like Jackson Rathbone, and Rob Pattinson being more like Jasper but thats a diiferent story)

    Again, if Jasper Rathbone were not in twilight I would have though he’d be perfect as Zane (He’s gorgous when he’s not all vampired up, google image him as well 🙂 ) but tally would most deffinatley have to open audtioned.

    I see her as being quite short, burnette (Messy midlength hair and a bit of a skater type if im honest) quite chubby and most deffinately tempermental! the actress would need to be very similar to her in real life to pull if off, otherwise she would most deffinately be slated. Tally is a complex character and I wouldn’t trust someone to be her on acting ability alone to be honest.

    The perfect song of the sound track would have to be love steals us from loneliness by idlewild. It’s simply perfect, though golden by fall out boy would also be quite good in the films as well. another band i would like to see in the soundtrack is hadouken with declaration of war (if you don’t know any of these we7 them, its worth it) but for the opening sequence of the first one, (which i’m already seeing as tally hover boarding through pretty-ville) could easily be pendulum.

    Finally DO NOT CHANGE THE NAME. Angus thongs and perfect snogging did that. There is no need for it, just dont bother.

    Long live the smoke-

    From Leah ‘Xo

  807. Heyy just been reading through some of your coments,

    ping to amy-la: i was like that for two years before i got anywhere. When i was in year eight (I live in england so that’s what we call it over here) i came up with an incredible first few paragraphs, but it lead to no where and i completely forgot about it until i found one of my old memory sticks about a week ago. Literally that same day i was in the car and all of a sudden the idea came to me so just habe patience, trust me, bacause in six days I have finsihed two cahpters and outline two books (And all their basic chapters).

    Ping to everyone: if you want to read some then email at leahlullaby@googlemail.com

    And i’ll send you a copy, though please be aware of a slight time difference 🙂 and please don’t steal my stuff!

    Long live the smoke-
    Leah ‘Xo

    another ping to everyone: have any of you every read sara’s face by Melvin Burgess or Martyn Pig by Kevin Brooks? They’re really awesome aswell!

  808. This time difference thing sucks, it’s quarter to five here! cant sleep and parents were stupid enough to allow me to get my own netbook and a dongle! they’re gunna go skitz when they find out 🙂

    Oh yeah, just incase anyone is interested my twitter is http://www.twitter.com/LeiahRayy

    i am a real person, lol.

    From
    Leah ‘Xo

  809. Haven’t. Posted. In. Over. A. Day.

    LOL! Guess you can say I’m officially obbsessed w/posting! At least I now know what to (reluctantly) give up for Lint!
    I swear you can see my tan line from a mile away! I went to the lake yesterday. I also said I didn’t need any more sun though you can go ahead and guess what I got… MORE sun. Woo-hoo I’m on the road to SKIN CANCER. 🙁
    Tried wakeboarding. Best ab workout I’ve ever got. Closesest thing modern technology’s gonna get to hoverboarding. Exept I fell. Again. And Again. And Again. (Great now I sound like I’m singing Demi Lovato’s new song.) Now to invent the closest thing modern technology’s able to get to crash bracelets! (That was hard to word. Hopefully you’re catchin my vibe though.)
    Long story short, tubing was funner. 🙂

    ping to Sarah-la: I sneak 2 *tOty grins wikedly*

    ping to Pony-la: Haven’t tried seltzer water but I have tried fizzy grape juice. While we’re on the subject of water, I made up a random quote from my accidental injestion of lake water:

    ”Lake Water: Drinking water with a hint of dirt”

    I for one think that’s hilarious!

    Good rant to luv_david! I think we’ve kicked her out 4 good !

    Anyway, I’m off to type up (or try to type up) some of my story. Sorry if I missed pinging you! Peace, Love, and Dirt flavored water! (Couldn’t you guys see that on a T-shirt?) hahaha! Bye y’all. 🙂

  810. ping to tOty: today my horse was feeling very spunky and full of energy, so in order to keep her calm i had to clench my abs for like half an hour straight! no fun! and i love the t-shirt idea!!!!!!!!!! u should make one. or when Alex-wa comes back on we can ask her to make one on her Zazzle. i still need to buy a shirt from scott-las website.

    NEW SPONGEBOB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i used to b able to seriously multitask,like watch tv and do email and posting and what not at the same time, but now i have to mute the TV in order to be able to do anything that involves my brain.
    ttyl.
    LONG LOVE MJ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  811. oh ping to Sarah-la: its good!!!!!!! yesterday it freezed up for a while yesterday, but whatevar.

  812. Yeah, whatever, I haven’t been online because I’ve been busy working, and then going to the Harry Potter premiere. Anyway…

    Ping to Sarah-la (338): I don’t see why auditions in Canada would affect anything. For one, unless you’re from Newfoundland/Labrador, you won’t really have an accent. I know a few people who live down south in the states, and we talk exactly the same, no accent whatsoever.

    I also write stories and stuff, I have an account on deviantart, and you can check me out there, my username is Intechnical, and I have a couple dozen stories so far, just little things I write up once in a while. Just click on my name to go there. 😉

    Ping to Pony-la: Hey, I didn’t disappear, see above paragraph.

  813. thank you Alix-wa….we have no accent……unless your an imigrant……which there is a lot of because this is a ver y very multicultural country….anyway…….I saw Harry Potter today….for the second time :)…..it was a bit better this time….but probs because this time I wasn’t dozing off.

  814. i must say that i loved the way u(scott) worked on the idea of the 20’s in the way that every one trys to be perfect and pretty and amazing all the time i love that idea and looking back at garbo and valentino im actually in the middle of pretties i just bought it today i havent even read uglies yet but trust me i will be buying it next i am addicted and im so happy that yall are makeing it a movie just reading it makes me wish i was living in new pretty. lol and i agree that the cast should have dr cable as a big named actress but no hot people mag type actress for all the other ones. im sure this will be bigger then “twilight” lmao it seems like its going to be amazing!!! i cant wait i want the movie now as well as all ur books lol ur a amazing writer u really sucked me in and now im addicted!!! (>^.^)>E>(heart)

  815. so……..zane isn’t even in uglies so why are people “casting” actors already when only Uglies has been optioned.

    “Go Team Shay”

  816. i’m reading another book series an i’ll be finished with the last book toonight! yay! it’s called the luxe series ( luxe, rumors, and envy!) that’s y i haven’t posted for in over like a week or sometin so i don’t have time to read all the coments. girls, u should read the luxe series! so good!

  823. Ping to Kristina-la: You’re very much welcome. We northerners stick up for each other, to prove that we are the same, lol.

  824. lol true that.
    dont you hate it when people say that we say eh?…..i personally dont know anyone that does……thats not on purpose

  825. I think all of that sounds like an awesome sign. Hopefully they make the movie well. Maybe one day all of the fans who read the books will be able to complain about all the people who only saw the movie 🙂 The movie definetly needs to be made for teens not for children, just like the books.

  830. Ping to Every1: “heyz! i just got back from vay-kay. Been reading up on post and a few new ideas are poking up. I really wish Scott-la would post more about the movie. Anyone writing extentions to the series? if so0o0ooo…..then plz plz plz email me yours. i would GREATLY appresiate it (if i could spell it). My email is Speedygee2010@aim.com .” THX

  831. Ping to Kristina-la: Yeah, it’s not like we say eh every sentence, eh? Rofl. xD Now see, I have some friends who live out in the sticks, and that’s saying something, as I live in the Maritimes, and they say eh sometimes, but it’s not every sentence and it’s not very noticeable.

    Ping to the other Tally Youngblood: And yeah, Tally, it does seem that there is less and less people.

  832. ping to everybody: well, in like 3 hours i am going to leave 4 my grandparents house in N.C. to a tiny little town called “Eden” it’s so boring there! don’t make me gooooooooooo! 🙁 boo hoo! my grandpa makes me do a lot of his chores while we r there like rake leaves, and we even had to paint his room! and last time i was there he kept making fun of how much i ate! i don’t even eat a lot! seriously! i mean come on! AND he has NO INTERNET SERVICE! gawsh! so I’ll be gone 4 a week, doing chores, no internet, and the only thing he ever watches on tv r old time movies! so i won’t post for another week. 8( wwwwwaaaahhhhhh!!! ahhh! see u later blogging buddies. til next time! 8(

  835. Stephenie Meyer needs to step aside. You can show her how a REAL book is written and made into a movie. 😀

  837. mingey kingey!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! lol! about the new look….. i can tell allreday that we r gonna have a love/hate relationship… omg so today i was watching the vid for bad by MJ and i remembered that my cuz told me about this thing by Wierd al”im fat” its really hilarious!! especially if u love michael! but who agrees with me that his costume in that vid is sooo awesome!!! anyway does any of u kno how to add a pic or whatever those little shadow ppl r in the corner… meh they r annoying me.

  838. oh yah ping to tOty: the shirt only showed a baby blue shirt and that was it.. but yah. ooh! i made a cake today and it was yummy! but im so lazy i dont really want to go put on the frosting. i will make my mom do it. ttylz ppl!
    WWTL?~Who Would Tally Kill?

  839. ping to Pony-la: I WILL KILL NOONE! JK! 🙂

    general ping: hey since school is starting, (unfortunately.) and since I’m assuming everyone’s in the middle/high school area of learning we could type down our shedules. and weather or not we got a top or bottom locker. ( I got a bottom locker, but the teacher took pity on me/hated my complaints and bumped me up to the top *tOty grins evily* Crap I keep sneezing and it’s sooo annoying achooo! DANG IT! stupid dust. 🙂

  840. Ping to Pony-la: ASked the same picture question to the “New look post”

    antoher general ping: I was @ my youth group pastor’s house last night playing Rock Band 2 and a song came on that automatically went to the part of my brain that stores Scott-la’s book information. This song on there called “Down With the Sickness” would be PERFECT for peeps! Lovin the song but I don’t nessicarily want to go buy it off itunes. Isn’t my thing…anyway here’s a magical little thing called a youtube link that will take you to the site http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhMxNF2kmVU

    I’ll now go and post this to the Peeps people. The bad thing about when I read this series, was that every time I read the word Peeps the part of my brain that went to food said “MARSHMALLOWS!”

  841. ping to tOty: lol. and i kno u wont kill anyone, i wuz talking bout the OTHER tally youngblood. lol. and whenever i hear the song Sober by pink, i think about the part of uglies when tally is traveling to the smoke on the train tracks. did u kno that they now have this thing where u can get an updated “feed” from this page to ur igoogle. so u can see who comments all the time without having to come all the way to this page. i figured that a post obsessed tally like u would want to know that..lol

  842. Me and my friends LOVE the books. I know everyone does but trust me, we love it more. Scott and whoever else is helping with the movie, I really would like my friend to be in the movie, my friend has been in lots of plays, and is a really good actress, honestly. She would be a great Sussy or An. Contact me if you wanna give her a try.

  843. omfg. congrats scott.
    i hope it really does become a movie
    it would be super awesome.i love the books! :DD

  844. OMG!!! I am so happy i hope that they do make the Uglie Series a Movie I swear I would watch a million times. I hope that the publishers make it a movie. Scott make more books for the Uglies series please……………………………………………….

  845. I LOVE UGLIES <3
    just asking, if there were auditions yeah… would there be any chance it would be in wembly or around london? or are they all going to be in the u.s?

  846. YAY!!! it’s funny, i was reading Uglies this morning and I’m not joking that i thought “hey, this would be a great movie!” and lo and behold, it just might be a movie! i’m rooting for ya Scott.

    I look a lot like the girl on the front of the book lol. is that Tally or Shay?
    i’m only thirteen though. maybe I can be an extra?

  848. I am both very scared and very excited to see where this goes. As everyone knows, books that are turned into movies are usually ruined ( ie inkheart, eragon, etc.) Uglies was my FAVORITE series and so I am praying that the movie turns out well if it happens. GOOD LUCK SCOTT! :]

  849. I’m back!
    I spent the weekend at Steubenville East, with my Youth Group. It was tiring though D: I got about 12 hours of sleep over the course of 3 nights… and I don’t run on 4 hours of sleep!

  851. Ping 2 Anna-la: Watched the trailer. It was GREAT! Make Another one!

    Ping to Scott: Love your books. Hope movies are made. Looks bubbly. WHOO HOO! MOVIES!

  855. :O This is so exciting! 😀

    I’m sitting here reading “Mind Rain” and how Robin Wasserman thinks Shay is so underestimated, and all of the sudden I go, “CRAP! I haven’t been on Scott’s website in so long!–MOVIE!!” LMAO!! I’m a random girl 😀

    Can’t wait! (Personally though, I disagree with Swinton as Cable…She’s just not…Cable-y 😛 xDD

    Congrats, Scott 🙂

  856. (Sorry about the double post :P) @ Sarah-la: OMG! I KNOW >:D Back off, Sparkles here we come! 😀

  857. Twilight & The Uglies series are my favorite series in the world, they are literally my bibles! I love Tally, I can really relate to her. This would be such an amazing movie (if done right). I’ll be honest, 99% of the time books are better left as books, but, I don’t know,… it’ll be intresting to see what happens. I completly agree with people who are saying the cast shouldn’t include anyone famous, exept for Dr. Cable. I think Angelina Jolie would make a great Dr. Cable. & I’m 16 now, so whenever I hear about a casting call for this movie I am so there! Bye Scott.

  858. Ooooooo. I can tell already this is gonna be GREAT! ^^. I trust you guys will pick the perfect people to cast :D. Can’t wait! 🙂

  860. Yes! I finally know what time this website’s in!!

    ping to pony-la: Yay! wait, does it involve ipod touches? If so I’m outta luck… get back 2 me asap. anyway this is random, but I’m going to look for school clothes on the target website…. ANYWAY bye 🙂

  862. hay, i know im only 14 at the moment but id be the perfect tally in a few years cause im not supermodle pritty and im good at acting. i also think tally should be engalish(only cause i am) i also think you should get some fit blokes in!!!!!!!!!!!
    love jay jay la
    p.s. best books evvvva

  864. Even though the movie people think that someone that’s not famous should play Tally, I think that Ashley Greene from the twilight movies could play her post-pretty operation. Definitely someone unknown for “ugly” Tally but Ashley Greene looks kind of like the girl on the cover of Uglies and after the operation, Ashley looks a lot like the girl I envisioned Tally as. Check out her IMDB pictures and try to see that she looks like Tally.
    I still have no thought of who should be Dr. Cable though. I don’t want it to be the worlds prettiest actress because Dr. Cable needs to be beautiful but also with a strict face. Using Angelina Jolie wouldn’t serve Dr. Cable justice. Maybe pick a doctor off of a show or movies. They are usually beautiful but serious.
    SCOTT, I REALLY REALLY REALLY HOPE YOU READ THIS!! 🙂 I THINK THESE ARE SOME PRETTY GOOD IDEAS!!!
    P.S. We all know this WILL become a movie!! Everyone who has read it has seen it as a movie in their head!
    P.S.S. I don’t know any La’s or Wa’s to put on the end of my name! Anyone have any ideas please?!

  865. omg Jaeda-la!!
    I love Bones but I had never thought of Emily Deschanel as Dr. C., but now I totally do!!! She’s perfect!!! Your a genius!! lol 🙂

  869. meh..new ppl annoy me sumtimes..not to b mean or anything but u guys r so obsessed with the movie and no one even talks about it anymore…
    ping to tOty:what, the feed? i dunno…u wuld have to have internet i think….u wanna kno what just hit me? scott-la must hate MJ. he hasnt said a word about him. how evil is that? Grr(shakes foam fingers at scott-la) lol.ooh! at McDonalds they have these new little mini beanie babies in the happy meal toys and i got a kitty and named it Tibbles from a Monty Python skit. lol.
    WWTK?~Who Would Tally Kill?

  870. HOLY CRAP! I haven’t been on here in literally FOREVER!!!!! Which, kind of bans my opinion on any conversations, but…here I am, back and ready to comment. Guess I’ve been a bit busy. So, what’s the main topic this week? Last I checked, it was casting, plus Kristina-la and I were having a very odd dissagreement. *smiles* Hehe.

    So what’s new, Uglies Fans?

  871. Ping to Pony-la: A kitty named Tibbles, huh? Funny. 🙂 You know, you remind me so much of my besties! They are soooo completely random like that! Hehe.

  872. Ping to Pony-la- My cat Luna had kittens, yay for cats! You remind me of my bff Anea-la!
    Ping to Emily-wa13- We are dicussing weather Dr. Brennon from Bones should be Dr. Cable or not, tee hee

  873. heyyy, ok. so when are they going to do the casting?
    and when they do they should bring the auditions to Toronto, and make it open auditions. Cuz, acting is like, my DREAM! and everyone wants a random to be Tally, i am a random 😀
    lol. i do not have an agent or anything tho. i am 14, but i could pass as 16. cuz if they get someone who is ACTUALLY 16 then they’ll get too old for the future movies.

    here is why i think i should be Tally,
    I am really average looking. nothing special at all. i am tall, and i have long brown hair and green eyes. pretty normal sounding, eh?
    i know i can act, and i’ve read all the books so i’ve got the character down. and this would be the best thing EVER to happen to me. but i guess it doesn’t matter totally if i get the part or not, i just want a chance.
    so i want open auditions and for them to come to Toronto, Canada.

  874. and Ping 2 Scott: you are amzing, the uglies series are my fav books along with the harry potter series. I just started reading the uglies series again. you are an amazing writer and congrats on this. you are probs so pumped that your book might be made into a movie. this is SO bubbly!

  875. ping to Pony-la: *gasps* well to tell you the truth I don’t like MJ much either. Well, I like him, it’s just that the news about him is sooo flippin annoying! *tears foam finger to shreads out of MJ news irritation.* Weird I just sounded like my youth pastor Wade. He says “flippin” alot. Maybe he likes napolean dynamite. Everyone calls me napoleon dynamite and I HATE IT!!!! *imagines all her make-funners as foam fingers and sends them into wood chippers and hears them making satisfying foam finger destroying sounds.* Just because I talk like that. I CAN’T HELP IT!! It’s not some fault a stupid doctor cut off my vocal cord when I was a baby having an opperation and OK now it’s getting kind of personal and off topic so now back to MJ. The day that he died there was this big bombing thing in Iraq and this woman’s son died in the bombing and could’nt get any info on it cause news on MJ’s somewhat unimportant I.M.H.O death was holding up the whole intire world’s stupid fraggy news stations.
    Don’t get me wrong. He was a good musician with neat music and a rather…odd face but he was cool and I just wish that the American public (along with whoever else) should just get over it. Hey I’m not racist, I have a right to express my own opinion and since I live in these United States of America instead of some dictatory country like Cuba, I can do that. anyway, this is random, but I need to look for pokemon pictures. Bye! 🙂

  876. Ping to Jaeda-la: Oh that’s a nice topic. Hehe. Just kidding.

    Ping to Dani-la: Hehe. You wanna know how many girls who love the series that wish they could be Shay or Tally? Like a GAZILLION!!!! *smiles* Tee hee hee. But by chance that you may get the part, then you are very lucky. But if you think about it, they will most likely choose someone who has gone to school for acting or drama, or atleast has some experience in acting, ya know? I dunno, though. Maybe I’m wrong. Guess that makes it a one-in-a-million chance then, huh? Anyway good luck trying to get the part, I’m sure your chance is as good as anyone’s.

  877. ping to Emily-wa: ahaha ya, i knoww. i might not even get a chance to try out :/ i’ll just keep dreaming :P. and I know there are a gazzilion people thinking they are perfect. i guess i don’t really care if i do get the part, it would just be fun to try, you know? lol.

    Ping to the OTHER Tally Youngblood: POKEMON PICTURESSS!!! ahahaa. i love pokemonn (: lol. the games are so awesome 😛

  878. Ping to Dani-la: Yep it would be very fun to try. I’m the same way, so I can’t really judge. Hehe. 😛

  880. I read these books over 5 times each. I NEVER re-read books, my parents know that. I read a book, and it stays on my shelf collecting dust for the rest of its life. This series is the first books in my life to be ever read once, twice and up to 5 times and more becuase I lost track. I never read Harry potter more that once, same with twilight, they just rest on the shelf. These books DESERVE to be put into a move. If theyre worried on no buyers, AS IF! You got all your fans backing you up here~! And I’ll tell my friends to watch it too! I’d buy the DVD and see the movie atleast 3 times! DONT WORRY! THIS WILL BE A SUCCESS!!!

  881. Hey! PLEASE hold open auditions! I have a sister who is a GREAT actress and has read/loved the books. But there are NO open auditions where will live. Please consider this.

  883. ping to emily-wa13-lol! i am a very random person…aah me and my cousin were having sooo much fun yesterday because we had to do alot of driving to get frontline from my vet and then go to Ikea, so we were acting very…well..ahem Blissed up.*skinned reference* in other words we were completely insane…
    ping to tOty: please DO NOT ever say the name wade. my stupid, weird and partially gonna-grow-up-to-be-a-murderer-of-his-exgirlfriends-ish ex boyfriend. eeewwwwwww*gets chills* thats a VERY long story.but so anyway i love MJ more than the world..his story is soo sad..he could have made the world sooo much better except he had his drug addictions…very sad! and why pokemon pics? tOty, i think ur more random than me!

  884. I only read this series once, but I am currently reading it for the second time. Right now I am in the part in Uglies where Special Circumstances has just arrived at the Smoke. So sad! I hate this part, I’m like, no, no, no, nooooo!!!

    I read the Harry Potter Series like, 3 times tho 😛
    but I hardly ever get right into books. But the Uglies series is gonna be one of those book series I will become obsessed with 😛

    whoa, the time zone this thing is in, it’s already August 2nd. Where I am it is still August 1st at !0:30pm.

  886. wow i really wish they would make a movie (:
    i love the character Tally and it would be my absolute dream
    to play as her in a movie!

  887. OMIGOSH! I heard that they are making a uglies movie … in 2011! :'(

    Which actors will be in it?

  889. POKEMON ROCK! PIKACHU,(duh) PIPLUP, ESPEON AND UMBREON, ABSOL, CYNDAQUIL, MANTYKE, SUPRISINGLY I LIKE MEOWTH. MAYBE IT’S BECAUSE TEAM ROCKET AND JAMES AND JESSIE R SO CRAZILY INSANE. CHIMCHAR’S SWEET TOO. ALONG WITH ALL THE WATER STARTER TYPES R MY FAVES! WELL, ANY POKEMON THAT START OFF CUTE THEN TURN ALL BIG AND BAD. MY FAVE OLD LEGENDARIES ARE CELEBI (pardon if there are any misspellings. I’ve liked pokemon ever since the 1st grade & still can’t spell them correctly.) AND MEW ALONG WITH WHATS IT CALLED? THE ONE WHO’S HEAD’S SHAPED LIKE A STAR AND GRANTS WISHES? I CAN’T REMEMBER… AND MY FAVE NEW LEGENDARIES HAVE TO BE MESPRIT, PALKIA, AND GIRITINA. WOULD LEAFON BE CONSIDERED LEGENDARY SINCE EEVEES ARE RARE IN SINNOH? NOT SO SURE… I SURE DO WISH THE GAMES WERE LIKE THE SHOW BECAUSE IN THE SHOW THERE’S A DIFFRENT STORYLINE AND YOU CAN DO MORE STUFF IN BATTLES AS IN THE GAME IT’S JUST THE SAME BACKGROUND WITH YOUR LITTLE HP METER STIKING OUT ON THE SIDE. PLUS YOU NEVER GET TO TALK IN THE GAME. THEY JUST HAVE LITTLE DOTS LIKE THIS: ……… AND YOU IMAGINE WHAT YOU’RE SAYING. UNLESS YOU HAVE RANGER THEN YOU ONLY HAVE YES OR NO QUESTIONS. THOUGH I do LIKE THE FACT THAT IN POKEMON EXPLORERS OF TIME, DARKNESS, ETC. (I was a piplup. @ first i think i got a munchlax or skitty. but then i kept taking the quiz overandoverandover until i got piplup.) HAVE loadz OF ACTIONY GOODNESS AND THAT YOU HAVE LITTLE CONVERSATIONS IN YOUR HEAD. ONE I REMEMBER A WILE BEFORE I BEAT THE GAME (SPOILER ALERT) WAS THAT PIPLUP (I) THOUGHT THAT I COULDN’T TELL TURTWIG (my partner) THAT I WOULD DISSAPEAR AFTER I PUT IN THE TIME GEARS SINCE I WAS FROM THE FUTURE. (SPOILER OVER)
    ANYWAY I’VE HAD ENOUGH POKEMON CHAT. BUT JUST LET ME SAY ONE MORE THING. I’M WORKING ON SOME POKEMON FAN ART IF ANYONE WANTS OR CARES TO SEE JUST SAY IT. BYE GUYSES 😀

  890. I just finished reading the series and i love the books so much ! They are awesome ! I cant wait till the movie ! I am so excited ! I personally think that the books would make awesome movies and i hope that when the movies are made that they dont take out any of the details and they try to put as much of it as possible !

  891. I’M BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!! * every1 applauds!* well, actually no, i’m not, i’m in washington d.c. but my hotel has internet service!
    ping to tOty: ur already bak n skool???? i have like 2 more weeks left!
    ping to every1: finally! when uglies come out i can say for the first time in my life, “i thought the book was better” hehe! 8) it prob. will b! just started midnighters series! very good! I <3 SW! ( i love scott westerfeld!)
    BUT! all my blogging buddies listen up! if u r searching 4 some good books i suggest these: luxe series, the house of the scorpian, and someone like you! these r some of the best books ever! well, besides scotties books here, OF COURSE! peace out! 8)

  892. I think it would be such a rockin movie. And as a suggestion…wouldnt be awesome if angelina jolie was dr. cable. I think she has the perfect attitude for the part and a “special” face. ya…. leave me to my daydreaming of uglies movie…..

  893. I think Kristin Chenoweth (seen in Pushing Daisies) would be a GREAT Dr.Cable. She could bring the stern voice more than anything.

    NO DISNEY KIDS.

    Tally should DEFINATELY be an unknown, found through casting calls and not previous movies/shows some random teen has done.
    (Same goes for Shay)

    I haven’t really developed an opinion for the roles of David or Peris yet…
    but some of the people that have been suggested for their roles have been alright with me.

    *Long Live Zane*

  894. ping to amy: DC rokz you need to go & see the International Spy Musueum. I went to DC @ 8 yrs old and that was my fave. part. I wish I could’ve gone to the Holocaust musuem though since I like WW2 alot but I wouldn’tve unterstood much of anything. I like to travel! 😀

    (P.S.P: Postal Stamp Ping) I must have stated that incorrectly, I start school on the 12th. 😥 WAAAAH SUMMER’S COME TO AN END!!!!

  895. ping to tOty: i went to the spy museum! it was awesome! did you do operation spy? it was sooo much fun! but it was kinda hard 2! i start skool on the 17th, which makes me very sad! 8(

  896. To everybody here that pinged me!

    THANK YOU SO MUCH!! XD *tackle hugs you all and then proceeds to giving cookies* I’m glad you guys liked the trailer so much! You made me really happy! Thank you! 🙂 <3 And I’m planning to make another one, for Pretties and Specials! XD Hopefully I’ll get that up soon! XD Then I shall share it with you guys here again! 😀

  897. Ping to Pony-la: Oh wow. Hehe. I’m random sometimes. Once my friend bought me a bunch of candy and I waqs being super weird. Then she was all like, “Next time we’ll see what you’re like on energy drinks!”

  900. seriously anna-wa, you are a genius that trailer is amazin!! keep up the good work. 🙂
    P.S. 900 yay!

  904. I’m sorry. I hate the idea of ANYONE famous besides MAYBE for Cable. (Surprisingly, Jolie seems like she’d be good for me! :P)
    PLEASE, Scott. The MINUTE you find out if there’s going to be open auditions, PLEASE oh PLEASE tell us! Ever since I read this post, I can’t stop thinking about how much alike Shay and I are. That would pretty much make my life complete if I were to get her part 🙂
    David needs to be someone that a teenaged girl can look at and say, “Oooh, he’s cute!” but definitely not “Hot”
    Gotta post later, okay??

    xxxKayxxx

  905. so i watched anna-la’s trailer and i realized that Tricia Helfer is like perfect for dr. cable. her character in battlestar is perfect for the dr. she is so beautiful but as she proved in bsg she can be a scary manipulative bleepoid. she is 35 so it’s not like she is a 20 year old playing this scary woman and not an older actress like tilda.

  908. i think making uglies is a great idea… i would totally watch it. i think they should go to highschool cuz they would find a lot of undiscovered talent there…. Angelina Jolie would be perfect as dr. cable.

  912. ping 2 amy: AWESUM! Did you climb in the vents? That was the thing I remember most. That and the fact that my mom and I had the same close to exact haircut so they kept calling us clones. 😀 LOL! Can’t remember if I did the operation spy… I guess I’ll look 4 sum of the pictures from the trip2 jogg my memory.

    ping to Kay-la: interesting idea. ME likez! (the David being cute instead of hot idea)

    BYE Y’ALL! 😀

  913. ping to tOty: i liked pokemon when i was like 8..yah not rly anymoar. i live like an hour away from DC, well maybe more like an hour and a half..but in Baltimore we have the Visionary arts museam, hairspray, and one of the messiest home in the country runner ups(from cleaN HOUSE)
    PING TO eMILY-WA13: sry bout teh caps. my crazy random typing. i LOVE mountian dew but will only drink code red. i have the paridoxical reaction, caffine makes me tired instead of hyper. lol. so at the barn in the vending mackine there is Mtn dew and i drink it and its sooo delish but then im too tired top worl. lol.
    ping to food network watchers: I CANNOT BELIEVE MELISSA WON THE NEXT FN STAR! JEFFERY SHOULD HAVE WON!!!!!!no fair!

  914. Hey Scott I was woundering are there any twins in Tally’s world or did they have a surgery to fix that? And it would totaly awesome if Uglies became a movie! I think it would be a huge hit. =D

  915. Ping 2 pony-la: yeah. Hairspray does rock. I went to the brodway and saw it. I have this huge poster w/ all the actor/actresses names on it. I live in Alabama. Home of the Saturn V, the 16th street baptist church bombing ,Carrie Underwood and Taylor Hicks, and Justin. The guy that won I Survived a Japanese Game Show.

    Ping 2 D People: Speaking of reality tv anyone here watch Design Star on HGTV?

  918. Yay! 😀 I can’t wait for this to become a movie. My friends and I will freak out…crap, I’m going into my fangirl mode again. I’ll be back after obseesing over the series for a few hours before I return to normal…

  919. Ping to Pony-la: Haha. Oh that must suck having to be tired after drinking mountain dew. KI don’t get hyper or tired, so I guess it doesn’t really effect me. Hmm!

  920. Yo! What’s up people? Not sure why I’m on here, but my girlfriend read this series and she liked it, so…I read it. It was ok. As far as casting goes, the main girl (I forgot her name) has to be HOT in the second movie hehe 🙂 .

  924. Ping to Asher: I agree with the OTHER Tally Youngblood, lol. Typical guy.

    Ping to Ash: LOL! I think it was more than a few hours! Lol.

    Ping to everybody: This is a random suggestion, but what would you think about Dominic Cooper as David? I don’t like the idea much, cause he’s a bit old for the part, but my sister said I should suggest it.

  925. just like a guy to forget tally’s name, but remember that she’s supposed to be hot haha 🙂

  926. I rather see this be a TV series than a movie. Something like 4 episodes per book would be good I think.

  929. Asher: Oh, I bet your not one of those idiot guys then. haha 🙂 but Tally does have to be pretty in Pretties.

  930. kate-la: Maybe sometimes, but I’m only idiotic when I feel like it. Hehe 🙂

    So is anyone here excited for his new book coming out?

  931. Asher: It is fun to be stupid sometimes. haha 🙂 I’m excited for the new book, it sounds interesting and I love Scott’s writing.

  933. ping to tOty: hmmmm, waat does si itis mean? have u read midnighters, SO FAB! i’m on the 2nd 1!

  935. awesome! I’ve been buzzing about how much I want this book to be a movie ever since I read it the summer before my 7th year.

    I’m 15 and -ahem- looking for roles HAHA. No no, hopefully you get the okay in the first place (but jsut so you know, my email has been registered hehe)

    GOOD LUCK!

  936. Ok I think Helena Bonham Carter should be Dr. Cable. I know a lot of people will disagree with me but she is a really amazing actress. She can do evil really well. Plus she’s pretty but in that scarily creepy way. I love her and she is like the best actress in the world.

  937. ping to kate-la: o ok! wow, i feeel stupid!

    ping to scott-la: well im on page 117 on midnighters 3 so i don’t know how it ends but is there gonna be a fourth?????!?!??!!??! that would be A-mazing!

  938. ping to minervathepeep: hmm, that is a good suggestion i think.

    and what’s midnighters about? I might consider reading it if it sounds good.

  939. ok ppl, does anybody think that Angie Harmon should be Dr. Cable. I think it would be so perfect in everyway!

  941. ping to Dani-La: OMG! U HAVE TO READ MIDNIGHTERS!!!!!!!! i thought it was better than any book i have ever read in my life! it’s even better than uglies!

    PING TO THE ALL IMPORTANT SCOTT:LA!! U HAVE TO MAKE ANOTHER MIDNIGHTERS BOOK!i mean, the thing about jessica now n the blue time 4eva! it just left me dumbfounded! i need to know wat happens to all of them and everything! PLZ MAKE ANOTHER 1! but if u do, that just means ill have to wait a year or 2 probably! im so SAD!!! wat other book should i read now people? give me an idea!!! besides peeps cuz my dad won’t let me read that, and not twilight either plz! i need more midnighters!!!!! ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

    poop.

    k well this is the end of my long, and sad, sad, message!

    and this is the start of my happy one!

    k scott, and people who have read midnighters listen up!

    well when dess’s memory door pass-word thing is ada and then love lace, i found this weird coincidence! last night i was kissing my dog goodnight who’s name is lacey, but i call her lace, and i was like love lace! and then i was like! haha! get it!??!?!?! love lace!?! as in ada lovelace!

    SCOTT PLZ RESPOND!

  942. ping to amy-la: thanks. Could u do a spoiler alert nxt time please? Thanks. no offense if this offends u

  943. ping to tOty: yeah, um sorry about that! but now im sad cuz i hav nothin to do 4 a whole week til skool starts! read any A-mazing books? plz respond! im dying here!

  945. Amy-La: I read this really cool book awhile ago called the City of Ember. I don’t know if you’ve already read it, but it’s kinda science fictionish. It’s about a civilization that lives underground cause people destroyed the earth and now they have to leave it alone for awhile, so it’s also kinda uglies-ish too. the author is Jeanne Duprau.

    Hope this helps your boredom! 🙂

  946. just a note: city of ember is nowhere near as good as uglies, but then again nothing is……
    anyway, im not saying city of ember isnt good or that its a waste of your time, cause i really liked it, im just saying it will never be as good as uglies
    sorry for the double post 🙂

  948. ping to Amy-la: There are some really cool cat books called Warriors that u might like. I did a “review” on them for my reading class blog but it’s probably gone since my teacher moved to Africa to teach there. Miss Nichols if ur readin this u rock and I miss u! (It’s Rachel G. 😀 ) Here’s the author’s site: http://warriorcats.com/warriorshell.html

    Now, I’m gonna go on our old computer and see if there’s a slight chance that it’s on there. That, and then I’m gonna search for the new David Crowder Band* CD Wish me luck! 😀

  949. Here it is! and Thank the good Lord I found it! I have to admit though, It sounded a lot awesomer when I wrote it back that long time ago…

    Rachel G 🙂
    Comment on September 17th, 2008.
    Hola Senyors & Senyoritas!

    My favorite book series is the Warriors
    Series. It is about 4 clans of cats in a forest who fight and go on journeys. The clans are called Thunderclan, Riverclan, Windclan, and Shadowclan. The first series is about a male house cat named Rusty who has always wanted to go to the forest. One night, he is wisked away by his own curiosity into these woods.
    There, he meets a clanborn cat named Graypaw who tells him all about life in the forest. Rusty is intreed, and later on into the chapter or next he gets a special offer from the leader of Thunderclan, Bluestar. She asks him if he would join Thunderclan and live as an apprentince. What do you think Rusty will choose? You have to read the book to find out!
    ( P.S. The first book is called ”Into the Wild by: Erin Hunter. There are 4 series so be sure to check the spine of the book BEFORE you start to read it!
    CUL8R!)

    did u like it? I pretty much copy and pasted the whole thing, but who cares? anyway bye 😀

  950. ping to Kate-La- okay my friend read that, but ive already started this series called pretty little liars, u shuld it, they’re good, but when i finish this ill try to read it!

    ping to tOty- thanks my friend is making me read that, but im not sure when i will start

  952. ping to kate-la! haha! i know! i just finished the first pretty little liars! A-mazing! ranks in my top 5 series! u shuld read it! its really good!

    ping to scott-la! sry about talking about books that u didnt write! i still luv ya’!

  953. kate-la: yep!!!! i’ve read city of ember and for some reason i didnt like it much!

    the other tally youngblood: maybe you know me! lol jk probably not.

  954. kate-la: yep!!!! i’ve read city of ember and for some reason i didnt like it much!

    the other tally youngblood: maybe you know me! lol jkk probably not.

  956. ok seriously people this will be a disaster if made into a movie. Everyone has their own ideas on what supermodel beauty is and it won’t work if you change actors from ugly-pretty-special. It would be impossible to get the clothes language and cities right (except smoke) and they only hope would be tons upon tons of cging and special effects, which would be horrible. I love the Books, but i think the movie would discourage anyone from reading them.

    ….

  957. -shot-
    Haven’t been here in WAAAYYY too long to read through all these comments, I apologize.

    Ping to tOty:
    Finished typing that looooooooong ooooold story yet? : D

    Ping to the General Public:
    I has found a new song that GOES PERFECTLY WITH THE UGLIES SERIES. If anyone cares to see it, please comment back, because last time I posted something like this no one responded D’:

    Ping to Pony-la:
    Where are you? D’:

    Ping to the General Public (again):
    If anyone has any new stories, I really wanna read them! Email them to mana.fione@yahoo.com — thanks!

    I got Mind-Rain at Barnes&Noble… Haven’t been able to read it yet because of High School summer reading projects which I hate SOOO much… I have to read Tuesdays with Morrie, A Great and Terrible Beauty, and Rebecca. Why can’t they let us read Uglies and Twilight?!

  958. ping to reality: some ppl LIKE special effects, and if they make the movie right, it will be awesome. Don’t be so pesimistic about it! :'(

    ping to Sarah-la: What song is it?????

  959. ping to Amy-la:
    pretty little liars, i started it and thought it was awful. Tell me if it gets better tho so i can try to read it again.

    im reading wintergirls right now. Its SO sad :'(

  960. Asher: It took me awhile to get through the city of ember, but in the end I liked it, and then I tried to read the sequel and I didn’t even finish it 🙂

    Sarah-la: Tell us the song! 🙂

    Amy-la: Whats the pretty little liars series about? I might be interested 🙂

  961. kate-la: want me to tell ya about the sequel? it was crap! but if you liked the first one, then you’ll like the second one. but i didn’t like the first one, sooo…

  963. ping to Sarah-la:NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

    I’m soo sorry. I’ve been soo dang busy the last few days and weeks. (I have school starting tomarrow waaaaah! 😥 ) I’m going to get back to that soon but I just got another (2) story ideas. I saw this insanely scary moon when I was on vacation that forgot to tell you guys about. It. Was. RED. It looked like something out of some horror storyline so I got the opening sentence in my head then and there. I was thinking about some nueclear war thing going on, (my OTHER story) but for now, here’s a sentence from my other books: EVERYONE ELSE PLEASE FEEL FREE TO READ!

    Book 2: The beach was still and silent. It seemed that even the ocean waves had been muted by the cloak of night. I tried to search for the horizion, but the small line that parted sea and sky was indistinguishable. The only light came from the small pinpricks of stars. And the moon. A dark, deep, blood red color that barely penetrated the darkness. If I were normal I would’ve run scared down the dirt road, my feet sore from stepping on jagged pebbles and darkened brown by the soil. But instead I sat and watched. From what was happening at the moment, I needed all the information for the future I could get. Staring at the moon, either normally or abnormally colored was bound to trigger that.

    * * * * * * *

    That’s not all I’ve got, but I need to go get ready. It’s meet the teacher day I’ll write more to ya later! 😀
    P.S could you type your email again for future refrences please? Thanks! 😀

  964. Asher: I’m sure it probably was crap 🙂

    tOty: That start to your story is amazing! Keep writing!

  965. I LOVE YOUR BOOKS!!
    and if they do make a movie that would be AMAZING 😀
    but i wont get my hopes up….
    but good job on writing haha

  967. ping to Heather-La: they get a lot better, but there are some bad parts in them, if you know what i mean, but otherwise they’re good.

    ping to Kate-La: pretty litlle liars is about this group of five girls that are best friends name alison (ali), aria, hanna, spencer (yes, she’s a girl), and emily. one day at a sleepover alison just disapears, and some1 knows the other girls secrets that could bury them alive! oohhh! spooky! haha! but i don’t want to spoil things so that’s all i’ll tell you!

    ping to tOty: U START SKOOL TMRO???????!!!!!!!!!?!????? 2 bad 2 sad, 🙂 i start on the 17th

  968. Amy-La: Sounds interesting. I’ll try to read them.

    I would NOT be ready if school started tomorrow 🙂 I’m still in the mode where I wake up at noon everyday. I start back on the 19th, so I guess I’ll have to start waking up earlier to get back into school mode 🙁

  969. ping to Kate-La: haha! me 2! i wake up from like 10-12, but most mornings like 11, except for sunday cuz i have church.

  973. WHEN this movie comes out (notice i say when, not if,)
    it BETTER be better than they did with twilight seriously
    tally shoud be some1 serious but not to pretty and not
    to ugly, some1 who is a born-smoke. ya no wat im sayin?
    and david has gotta be cute 😀

  974. This is so exciting to see that the movie is progressing, You have done a really good job Scott.
    To be honest, I think every uglies fan thinks they would be a good tally or Zane…..
    but we can all dream…….
    And are you American, cause if you are then the movie would most likely be made in America. It would be so cool to be in the movie, but i doubt parents would let me fly from Australia to America for the Audition….
    🙁
    Anyway…
    You rock!!!

  975. i am very excited to hear that the movie is being considered. i love the series soooo much!! 😀
    i have to agree that i would love to see that most of the actors/actresses for the movies should be unknowns, except for maybe Dr. Cable.
    i would love to be able to audition for the movies, but they never seem to do auditions outside of America that lasts long.
    i really believe that these books would be great movies!! 😀
    keep on writing great books!!!

  976. I didn’t think anyone was posting here anymore
    and here I come back and its almost at 1000!
    and we’re still pretty much on topic!

  977. You don’t know how excited I was to find out that this book was going to be a movie!!!! I kept thinking of it as a movie as I read the books. And I totally agree with what it says about Shay and Tally being unknowns, but Dr. Cable being somebody famous. Ha! I liked whoever said Nicole Kidman. But they have to get her right!!!!!!!!!!!! She is my absolute favorite character, and I already totally have this picture of her in my head.

    Personally I disagreed with some of the illustrations in Bogus to Bubbly, but whatever 🙂

    Finally, a suggestion: For Tally, I (but I don’t know about everone else) already have a picture of her in my head as the girls on the cover of the books. So see if they can act! 🙂

  978. Oh, and I think the movies should just be totally lifted from the books. Change none of the dialogue, don’t deleter any scenes, etc. It would make the movie about four hours long, but I would definitely sit through that!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Sorry, I’m just a crazy fan. 🙂

  981. tOty- my skool starts tmro!!!!!!!!!! im SOOOOOOO excited!

    kate-la- yeah, good thing is that i didn’t go to church this morning, because my sister has a TON of work to do b4 skool starts 2mro!

  984. Kate-La: ur lucky, u still have a couple more days, well, i g2g pick out my first day oiutfit! tootles!

  986. Well, I think Dr.Cable should be Famke Janssen, becaause whenever i read Uglies/Pretties/Specials i think of her as Famke Janssen. I LOVE the Uglies series! I just finished reading Extras today, and it was brilliant !

  988. OMG you guys! my friend and i want to audition if there is open auditions! lol she wants to audition for shay! she’d make a great shay cuz she’s so talented! 😀

  990. I’m not gonna get my hopes up but I am just starting out as an actress and I would love to be cast as a miner roll like Sussy or something. So I was wondering if you could put the casting info (if it really does become a movie)

  991. Wow this will be great once it’s a movie! I’ve read the books like 64 times and they’re great. It’s a long shot but I’d like to play Sussy or something I’m prob too young 2 be Tally im almost 14. But Ive been acting for 5 years.
    Ping to the OTHER Tally Youngblood: Wow i read your comments from the very beginning youve been here aLOT! lol u rock
    TEAM DAVID ALL THE WAY!

  992. i’m really excited at the possibility of the movie.
    when i first found out that someone bought the rights i threw a happy fit 🙂
    and then i went and told my friends right away
    i have to say these are some of my favourite books (favourite of the series is almost to close to call because they are all shockingly different for one series, but i think i would have to say specials)
    and putting these amongst my favourites says a lot because i am the type of person who reads every type of book (classics like The Catcher in the Rye, series’ like Harry Potter or Twilight, too many books nobody has ever heard of to count) and i can almost always find something significant that even though i love the book, i hate it too. but not with the uglies pretties and specials (i love extras too) i love them, every time something happens to make me want to hate the book, its followed with reasons that make me see just how necessary it was, and then i love the books that much more…and yes i realise that makes just about no sense.
    thanks for amazing books, and i can’t wait for the (potential) amazing movies

  993. Ping to May-la: Wow your a team David? I’d be a team Zane! I was sooo sad when he died! My friend is a team David though, so I respect him alot! =]

  994. ping to May-la: LOL! I haven’t been here in 5 days I expected there to be at least 1,001 comments on here! I hope I provide some funny-laking-of-sanity posts!
    🙂
    I’ve been busy though since I got texting on my new phone and theres a new pokemon game comming out. The remake of Gold and Silver called Heartgold and Soulsilver YAY! It’s got me doin all kinds of imaginary fanart (imaginary, because i’ll probably never get to it. 🙂 ) speaking of fan art, SCOTT-LA ARE WE EVER GOING TO HAVE FAN ART FRIDAYS AGAIN? CAUSE I’LL HAPPILY SUBMIT! :mrgreen: and lets not forget the best part of all… (sarcasm) Homework! anyway, see u all later! 😀

  998. What would you guys think of Logan Lerman as David? He’s going to be in The Lightning Thief (which by the way was a really good series) and he’s SUPER CUTE! Tell me what you guys think!

  1002. yes!!!!! finally!!!!! the uglies series is finally on my school’s reading list. now i can read uglies for a grade yay! and finally 1000 comments

  1003. I know! Whoot whoot! 1,000 comments!!!!!!!!!!!!! lol. can someone reply to my comment about Logan Lerman? plz

  1004. Omigod! This would be the best movie ever. I do reckon it could be ruined tho coz i have a weird feeling they would cast miley cyrus as tally. Not cool. Logan Lerman is so hot but way too much for David. Tilda Swinton would make the best Dr Cable and i reckon Taylor Lautner shoud Be Fausto.

  1005. ping to Danni-wa: Taylor’s WAY too famous from the twilight saga, BUT maybe the makeup people could make him look less like himself… 😀

  1006. No absolutely NO TAYLOR LAUTNER! I am a fan of him, but the OTHER Tally Youngblood is right! He is waaaaay too famous from Twilight!

    Ping to Danni-wa: What do you mean by “too much for David?”

  1007. that would be awesome belive me i will find a way to get an audition for tally!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  1008. i can picture angelina jolie as dr. cable, blake livley as shay, and johnny pacar as david.i want an undiscovered as tally!

  1009. i REALLY need a new book to read! If you really loved uglies, read the giver by Lois Lowry! Its kind of slow in the first few pages, but read those quickly and you’ll be obsessed with the book! 🙂 😀

  1010. Regarding Dr. Cable:

    Personally, I think that Sigourney Weaver is so good at playing evil people. And I loved her in Holes, which is currently the best book-turned-movie, in my opinion. And Nicole Kidman pulled off the whole beautiful but evil thing really well in the Golden Compass. But please stop saying Angelina Jolie! I think she is too ugly and young. And absolutely NOT taylor lautner 4 fausto! or blake lively (imho)

    And I love the Giver! I always thought I was the only one. 🙂

  1011. I agree no angelina Jolie…I can’t stand her….I did think Tilda swinton but she is actually reather ugly…its just that she looks so special…I like Nicole Kidman…she has beauty and a special look

    it looks though that we have a top three choices for Dr.C what are your votes?

    Nicole Kidman
    Tilda Swinton
    Angelina Jolie

  1012. OMG! I haven’t been on here since the 800’s, which was only a week or two ago!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  1013. Lol i hated the giver! it was so slow and dumb!!!! no offense to anyone who likes the giver, but i knew from page 1 that i would hate it.

    PS i’m soooo happy my internet is working again!!!!!!!

  1014. ping to scott-la: there are alot pf people who want to be Tally Youngblood and Uglies be turned into a moive tht would be awsome!!!!

  1015. This is really something. Every book I’ve read and loved and favorited growing up ALWAYS turns into a movie some way or another: Ella Enchanted, City of Ember, Hoot, & Twilight. I heard Maximum Ride was also hitting the big screen and now Uglies! My #1 favorite thus far. And for some reason I have this really, really big desire more than ever to be a part of this production. (I loved Extras, by the way!)

  1017. MY DREAM HAS COME TRUE! The Uglies series has been my favorite book series for a long time, better than Twilight or Harry Potter. All the things you said about casting the actors and doing the scenery is exactly how I felt about it also. It would be AMAZING if it made it into the movies! This is what I’ve been waiting for! YAYAYAYAYAYAYAYYAYAYAYAYAYAAAY!
    This is VERY BUBBLY!

  1018. WHOO MORE PEOP;LE! grr sorry forf the typos my moms making me type the right way since i;m taking keybarding at school.

    ping to lexi-wa: the giver’s ending made NO sense but just a few days ago, someone told me that there’s more to the story. YAY ! ma hands hurt sinde i suk at good typing so ill cu all later but before i go my volleyballteam killed our rivals becse of me! the score was 25-7! 🙂 except all day i kept saying it was 27-5 maybe i just wanted others 2 think we are good… bye! 😀

  1019. Oh, and the Clique series! I think.. I mean I heard it went out already but I don’t know. I haven’t seen yet if it did.

  1020. Lol I don’t know if anyone cares but a really good song that would go with the Uglies series is “Getaways Turned Holidays” by Meg and Dia… it sorta hit me when the lyrics said “As for the dying and fading and resolve to be okay with a natural decay* I’ll choose illusion and safety a hundred times over** I’m prepared to be happy and decieved; I’m supposed to be happy and decieved.***”

    *Reminded me of the Smoke
    **Reminded me of someone who went to the Smoke and decided they didn’t like it so they went back to the city
    ***Reminded me of when Tally goes back to the city, she prepares herself to be happy and decieved.

  1023. hey everyone….they are making a movie for Forest of hands and teeth(for those who read it when Scott-la mentioned it….if you didn’t you should cause its amazing) and Carrie ryan is asking for suggestions of casting for Mary….right now Mtv has said Kristen Stewart, if this makes you angre go to her website and post your thoughts on that

  1024. I can’t wait for this movie! I absolutely love the books! I think that Uma Thurman should play Dr. Cable because she is very pretty and I think she would play the role perfectly. She reminds me of Dr. Cable a lot too.

  1025. Yeah, Uma Therman would be a really good Dr. Cable. But I also think that Angie Harmon would be perfect to! She is pretty but can act really tough and scary. She was in Law & Order. Tell me if you agree plz. Oh, and yes, Logan Lerman would be a great David! I can’t WAIT to find out the cast!!!!!! EIIII!!!!!

  1026. Sorry, this has nothing to do with anything. But does anyone know where I can buy an Oliver Visible Writer Typewriter cheap? (less than $50). If ANYONE does PLZ PLZ PLZ let me know. I’ve been searching for ever. Also, not on ebay or craigslist unless its in Canada. Thnx

  1027. LOL I just realized something about the whole slang thing like the ‘la’ in Shay-‘la’. It’s also used in the Indonesian language at the end of a word to sort of emphasize it or to show sarcasm or something. For example, my mom 2 minutes ago said “itu la!” Which roughly translates into “That, duh!”

    Lol, just thought I’d sharee :p

  1028. Hey! I am 13 and I love the “Uglies” Series so much i wish there was more books, becuase I loved all of the books and i read them all in 5 months!!! The only book that was good but not great was the “Extras.”That at book was my least fav because Tally and all of the other main characters were not in it that much. And the book didn’t have many big advenres like in the other books.
    Out of the whole series “Pretties” Was my fav becuase it was very interesting and advenerous.I loved how Tally had David on her mind but had Zane right beside her. I also love how she finds all of these things she never knew ( like when she was an ugly.)
    I can not wait until the movie comes in ealry 2011 because i love seeing movies that where books at first. Like the wizard of Oz.
    I love all of your books Scott!!
    Luv,
    Karleigh-Wa

  1029. wow, haven’t been on here in a while.
    i read the Giver in school. i didn’t like it much. I hated the ending.
    it was ok though…
    i was really dissapointed in it though cuz i thought it would be better.

  1030. ah school books….they are never that good….except Uglies of course(thats where I first read it as a matter of fact….it made me love reading again)

  1031. O.M.G. I haven’t been here in 4ever! (or at least it seems that way… 😀 )
    I had to read Feaver 1793 this year. Very reluctant @ 1st. After a wile it got better and the ending was good, but I’m not saying I’ll reread it. I hate rereading books. Hey any of you guys seen the articles for The Hunger Games? Everyone says the first one was good but the 2nd one sucks. Any way I’m gonna check it out. 😀 until next time blogging buddiez! 😀

  1033. o.O

    Ping to tOty:
    I LOVED Fever 1793! It was a great book.

    Ping to the General Public:
    Check out the song I posted last time; Getaways Turned Holidays~

  1034. Hey guyzez! Guess wat I’m at school in computer class! Just wanted to pop by & say Hola! 😀

  1038. need to get more people into the uglies series, tell more friends. put it on your myspace, facebook, tweet it!

  1041. i agree about shane west for david and tilda swinton as dr cable because they just seem like the part. i love your books i have just finished extras and it is AMAZING. i think the film is a great idea because when i read uglies i knew it would make a good film. 😀

  1042. I agree with ellie-wah!!!! shane west is perf for David!!!!! either way the movie is going to be AMAZING!

    to be honest, i didn’t like Extras cuz Tally was such a jerk in it, ya know?

  1045. I really want to play Shay-la…persnally I think she’d be the best role to play. She’s great….still wishing I could play her…..

  1046. MAKE IT A MOVIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! the books are soooooooooo good and i think that it would be awesome for it to be a movie! also wouldnt it be cool to see one of the series biggest fans be Tally???? i think that would be AWESOME DUDE!!!!! hahahahahaha! so i totally think that it should be a movie! it would do really well…… it would be like another Twilight except hopefully the first movie is more like the book then the movie twilight was……. i would be there on opening night if Uglies became a movie and i am sure that a lot of ur other fans would be too! also please keep writing….. I NEED MORE TO READ!!!!!!!!!!!!

  1047. maybe someone like emily browning for tally would be good as she is not very famous but is a good person for it 🙂

  1049. This movie is going to be aweosme :] I will be at the midnight premire, dressed up… lol there are so many comments on this page it takes 5 seconds for one word i type to show up…also good to know you would post about open auditions/important movie :)) GOOD LUCK!

  1051. I fell in LOVE with the books after the first page of “The Uglies” && honestly there my favorite books, If they were made into a movie, I’d be super excited && make all my friends go!

    I really hope they go thro with this!

    I agree that Tally should be played by an undiscovered actor.

  1054. the OTHER Tally Youngblood: i don’t even know who Shane West is, but but he looks like he could play David. look him up on google.

  1055. Just got back from MY Labor Day shenanigans… still writing (; as usual… started high school and got homework the first day… etc. so what’s up with other people?

  1056. I just finished Specials; I am officially BEYOND in love with this trilogy. I’m about to pick up “B to B” to bone up on my background information! Though I am worried & skeptical to read Extras: I can’t imagine an Uglies novel without Tally Youngblood written in to it.

    And yes! I couldn’t be more thrilled about an upcoming movie! As an aspiring actress (a 21 year old who resembles a 15 year old… unfortunately), my dream would be to play Tally. Part of the reason the books are so addicting to me- perhaps- is due to the shocking personalities similarities that Tally and I share.

    I think Emily Browning resembles Shay as an ugly: wide set eyes & lips that are nearly already as full as a pretty’s. And everyone seems to agree on Tilda Swinton for Dr. Cable but honestly, she’s more of a Maddy: stern, informed, worldly… and with a formerly-but-no-longer-pretty face. Dr. Cable has to be frighteningly BEAUTIFUL. And older… according to Specials, she’s almost a crumbly after she’s cured, right??

    Anyway, kudos on the excellent series, and definitely post about open auditions. That would be fabulous.

    PS- write more about Tally & David!

  1057. No it really can’t be anything like Twilight…..I would die of shame
    and I dont thing Emma should…if she’s ever going to be in a different movie it shouldn’t be another book movie

  1058. I personally think that this movie will be great on the sbig screen, It will blow everybody’s mind when they see the side affects and the animation to this amazing book turned into a movie. It will be one of the most amazing movies that all the readers in the world would enjoy to see.

  1059. OMG!!! i really hope that uglies gets made into the movie it is such a great book and i love it and all my friends do 🙂 if uglies dosn’t get made it to a movie i will be really anoyed so good luck

    PS plz write more about tally and david 🙂

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    WARNING: MY EXSESSIVE FANDIMONIUM MAY ALSO CAUSE YOU AND OTHERS AROUND YOU TO REPEAT ALL OF THE FOLLOWING LYRICS TO ALL OF THE FOLLOWING SONGS: Tim Mcgraw
    Teardrops on my guitar
    Picture to burn
    Cold as you
    Mary’s song (Oh my my my)
    The outside
    A place in this world
    Our song
    Stay beautiflu
    Tied together with a smile
    Should’ve said no
    Invisible
    I’m only me when I’m with you
    A perfectly good heart
    Beautiful Eyes
    I heart ?
    Change
    Sparks fly
    Permanent marker
    Your face
    Your anything
    You don’t have to call
    Come in with the rain
    I’d lie
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    THANK U 4 ur time! I WILL POST MORE LATER!!!

  1062. ping to Sarah-la:Insanely awesum UNKNOWN cover! Love the saying too. So dramitically intense.. and in case you are going to ask, sorry but I have had no time to write ANYTHING!!!! 7th grade sux. u have no time to do anythin anymore!

    ping to anyone bothering to listen after my fan rant: I had to play at my school’s football game and I heard some dude say, “Jesus saved my life. Praise the Lord halleluiyer!” Anyone know where that’s from? I feel like I’ve heard it on youtube.

    PS I realize that these are not all of the songs and there are sum u have never heard of. This is because of my wondreful friend the copy/paster! Give it up for modern tecnology! *claps* Bye! 😀

  1063. Oh yeah. You all probably already figured it out, but I saw her (Taylor) in a concert arena. Anyone heard of GLORIANNA? They were her opening act. If anyone needs sum new songs 2 fill up their ipods get “Wild at Heart”. Kellie Pickler wuz there aswell! Sorry. I’m done. (for now…)

  1064. Hello i was wondering what shay looks like. im kinda curiouse cause there is never a big discription on her any other character descriptions(like ugly tally and zane) would be great to know to!

  1066. the OTHER Tally Youngblood : its “Your not sorry” not “you don’t have to call” right I love Taylor swift too 🙂

  1067. the OTHER Tally Youngblood: Yeah i’ve heard of Gloriana!!! wild at heart, good song, good song! LOL! you saw her in concert???? LUCKY!!!!! LOLOLOLOLOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (:

  1068. Lol the only band I listen to is Meg&Dia– whose (repost) song “Getaways Turned Holidays” s great for The series.

    Ping to tOty:
    Its okay. I haven’t written too much in a while either.

  1070. omg i think that the uglies would make a totally awesome movie i hope tey do make a movie out of that book

    THE SMOKE LIVES
    Team David

  1071. ping to sarah-la: OMG! I just had a project that would have been perfect for that song! But..I for got all about that! darn. 🙁

    ping to Beatriz-wa: Oh I couldn’t remember all the songs so i just copied and pasted them but itis a great song! BYE I HAVE 2 GO DO ALL MY SUCKISH HOMEWORK AND TRY NOT TO FAIL MATH!! 😀

  1074. i CANT wait. seriously. i read this book as soon as it came out. LITERALLY. i was sooooooo obsesed (and still am) with them. ive been waiting for this movie since i read the book. i read the first chapter and then ran to my mom and screamed “THEYHAVETOMAKETHISINTOAMOVIEANDIMGONNABEINIT!” but then we had to read it for school and everyone else got obsessed too….. kinda put a damper on this series for me. but right now i feel special bc im the only one who knows about the posibility of the movie.

  1075. omg! i cant wait. to me what would make the caracters more like the characters is if the people on the cover of the books be the actual characters. who agrees?
    UGLIES SERIES ROCKS!!!(:

  1076. I think is would be a good movie I’d buy it. But i under stained that i is a lot of money to do the movie. So good luck Scott Westerfeld. 🙂

  1078. I absolutely love the Uglies trilogy and am really hoping and looking forward to a movie! It would be soo good. Like your post says, the book is already a movie. So, in pretty talk, I’m getting all bubbly just thinking about it being a movie! It would be totally pretty-making scott-la (haha) and would probably be like a million mega-Helens! Stay bubbly and keep on fighting the Gods.

  1079. My friend texted me yesterday, “There’s going to be an Uglies movie!! Check the site!!” I have to admit, I haven’t been here in a while, but now I have a feeling I’ll become addicted to posting on here again! I’m so incredibly excited about this, and thrilled that the movies-people seem so great! I always hoped that I could be the director of this movie when I finish with film school, because I have such incredible visions for it, but I’d be happy to miss the opportunity as long as they outshine my visions with even better ones! They HAVE to do it, and if they don’t, I will! This book really is already a movie practically, they way there’s always something happening but not so much that it has to be twisted around to fit into 2 hours. And every setting described is so beautiful in different ways… I just can’t wait! This HAS to happen. Get Chris Columbus to direct! I’m sure he’s expensive, but I think he’d be so perfect for this book-to-film adaptation! I hope that when I see it in theaters(which I know I will, it’s too amazing not to make it there eventually) it blows me away. I have no doubt that it will.

  1081. This is great! I thought the books were amazing, so I’m hoping the movies will be just as good! I agree with what most people are saying- go with unknown actors. It really does make the movie seem more real and you don’t already have an idea in your head of- hey that actor/actress doesn’t fit that part because he/she played blank.. And I also agree that the setting is really important because we all have a picture in our minds of what it should look like from reading the books.

    Kudos to the producers for taking on such a challenging movie. Its going to be hard to get all of the cool effects (hoverboards etc)

    Good luck!

  1082. Hola! Guess what? I’m so freakin mad cause we lost A-N-O-T-H-E-R FREAKIN VOLLEYBALL GAME! GRRRR… Bye! I HAVE TO GO AND MENTALLY PUNISH MYSELF BY DOING MY FREAKIN MATH HOMEWORK! (I’m almost done phisically punishing myself. There’s huge welts all over my arms and legs from where my fingernails were! im doing this as i speek thoughiz hard 2 type grrrrrrrrrrrrraaaaaaahhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am now going to do a very un normal sign off for me. >:-/

  1084. Hello? Anyone here? Nope. Anyway just so you know, there’s a new show on ABC called Flashforward! Holy flippin crap IT IZ AWESUM! Either u know or you don’t, but there’s a blackout on the intire human race that lasts for 2 minutes and 17 seconds. Someone on the site found a bible verse that ties in to the show so well it gives me chills or something…

    ‘In the last days, God says,
    I will pour out my Spirit on all people.
    Your sons and daughters will prophesy,
    your young men will see visions,
    your old men will dream dreams.’

    ……….ACT 2:17…..

    Freaky rite? well ok here’s the show’s link.

    http://abc.go.com/shows/flash-forward

    Is it just me or am i the only loyal fan left? I mean come on people! Sure this post’s been up here for 4 months and 4 days, but i like to think of this as bonding fun for my internet buddies! Wait.. I don’t think that came out right… Oh well check out the show BYE! There’s an encore tomarrow nite at 8/7 central PEACE! 😀

  1085. OMG! Can’t wait! I LUV THE BOOKS! I just spent the entire last week feeling sorry for david. Thats how much I love it.

  1087. Hey everybody! XD
    As promised, I come bearing a PRETTIES FAN TRAILER I have made and posted on Youtube!! ^^ I hope you guys like it!! XD -looks nervous-
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBUDgQXCVe0

    (The guy I chose for Zane is way too old for the part, but a girl can dream no? 😉

    I’d really love to be Tally if I got the chance to audition or Shay! XD Now that would be really fun! Unfortunately the only thing that might lessen my chances is that I look slightly asian.. 🙁 -is terribly sad-

  1088. i can not wait for the movie, and if you liked Uglies, you would like percy jackson series and mediator series. Stephenie meyer, Scott Westerfeld, Meg Cabot, and Rick Riordan are the best authors ever.

  1089. i havent been to the movies in a long time but whenever this becomes a movie; ill be the first one there(:
    if there is movies for all the books; hopefully i could be Aya. people say i look 15; though im not so maybe it could be me!!!! (x
    Also, the book IS the script so if the movie skips or jumps ahead, thatll ruin everything dontcha think?
    well thats all i have to say. CYA! 😀

  1091. i am really hoping that this movie becomes a reality! =) i totally agree that unknown’s should play all the main roles except for dr. cable in my opinion. if you are a producer reading my comment… please make open auditions. in my book it would be a great way for you guys to find an unknown actress for the main roles. =)

  1092. ping to Anna: In my book, I think that u would b a good Shay considering the fact that I always imagined her that way 🙂 don’t feel bad.
    p.s. how do you take clips from other videos and save them to your video? I’m not very good @ that& wuld appreciate ur help!

    BYE GUYS! 😀

  1093. I think it will be a great movie! I am so addicted to this series, (I even wrote my own version (betwen Soecials and Uglies- mostly about Tally and David) I hope hope HOPE it will be great! And i wish it was movie!!!! Please make it into a movie, production people! It wil be great! ALOT of people like the uglies series!! 😀 🙂

  1094. in my opioin it is already a movie (in my mind anyway). it has adventure romance tragdie and is an all around awesome book. smoof yeah it should be made into a movie! they would be crazy not to do it 🙂

  1095. omg! i would love this book to become a movie and yea i would love to see all of it outside my mind! yay!!! and i agree totally with everything this says! i hope it really gets turned into a movie 🙂

  1096. i love this book i think that you should film the some in like a place where there is no city close by and i hope they do not add anything to the movie that does not belong

  1097. I think it would be a great movie if they did it right. But, chances are, they aren’t going to spend enough money on it in order to make it look like it’s supposed to. It would be an extremely difficult movie to do. I mean, the technology, for instance. How much money are they really willing to spend on all te great technology needed for the film? I don’t think it’ll go anywhere, personally. It’s a nice thought, but if it ever comes out I’ll be extremely surprised.
    But I’m keeping my fingers crossed in hopes of a wonderful movie with competant actors. [:

  1099. ommg! it would be awesome if they make a uglies movie! but the MOVIE WOULD NOT BE AS happy-making as the book

  1100. Dude, I seriously love that they r makn this book series into a movie!!!! i really wanna no when and where the casting auditions will be held, cuz i really REALLY wanna try out for the part of Shay. if i do get the part, that will be totally happy-making!!! Stay bubbly, right Scott-la?! Peace!

  1101. ping! XD to The OTHER Tally Youngblood! 😉
    I have a program called iMovieHD6 in my Applebook, and I use that to cut and paste and edit all the clips that I think resemble the characters or chapters of the book! 😉 Most of the time I download the clips from Youtube, but sometimes I download them from other places as well! 😉 I hope that helps! ^^ Please feel free to ask if you have any more questions! ;D -hugs-

  1102. Ooh and I also forgot to mention to The OTHER Tally Youngblood! *silly me!*
    Thank you so much for your comment! ^^ It made me smile with relief when I read your comment! 😛 It meant a lot! Thank you! XD

  1103. aTHANKS 😀 ping to Anna: one very important question. Does it cost money? I’m guessing is does but you never know. Thanks 4 getting back to me. have a feeling that i have way more free time than others. And that’s not much haha. In the mean time, I’ll google it! It does help BTW! 😀

    a VERY belated ping to Sarah-la: let me copy & paste quickly:

    468Sarah-la
    July 1st, 2009 18:47
    Ping to the OTHER Tally Youngblood:
    The lyrics are good… I want to hear them with sound now! Before I begin to put them to my own tune!

    I just came across this while looking up an old comment and to that, a very belated thanks in in order! Unfortunately, I can’t play guitar :cries:
    BUT, I will try to post the notes in some way or another…

    THANKS TO BOTH OF YOU! 😀

  1104. fjadsjugdfjgjsfjsdka i canttt waittt. this will be offical uhmazing! hope they decide to do it! & i agree with the whole ‘ cast not famous thing’ besides mr. cable & all. (: I WANT THIS TURN INTO A MOVIEE! hopefully the producers have the right mind to see this will be just as big as twilight (; <3 love your series, keep the updates coming! lots of love, anna.

  1105. OMG this news is so crap-my-pants-making!!!

    hope they really do make the movie!!!

    i will be there @ midnite with my dad cuz none of my friends have read the books… but the first actress that came to mind was a specialfied tilda swinton for dr. cable!!!! and for some odd reason, khloe kardashian reminds me of tally…. not that i want her for the part, oh no! but i really hope they get a good director cuz i am a total twilighterand she did NOT do a very happy-making job =( but twilight and uglies are my top two favorite books in my life.

    they better not screw this up like they did with the first twilight movie. very DISSAPOINTMENT-MAKING.

    BUT lets hope they get a good director like steven spielberg or christopher nolan or michael bay or james cameron!!! oh yes.

    cross your fingers and toes they pull through and make this GOOD!!!

    BEST WISHES SCOTT!!! you got faithful people behind you.

    lets do this guys!!! yeah. c(= go tally

  1106. ping to ANNA: Hi! Just asking, but you DO know that Dr. Cable’s a woman right? It may be a typo but if you’re a new fan, I think you’d like to know this cause I know I hate it when I’m reading and I imagine things all wrong. bye! 😀

    ping to Vanessa-wa: YEA GO ME! (j.k) I know I’m excited about this possibility as well but as you can see by Scott-la’s other posts, he hasn’t said anything about this for months… Oh well I guess we’ll all just have to wait

  1108. AHHHHH!!!! I really want to see the books come into a movie just like Twilight. I think Tilda Swinton should be Dr.Cable thats what i pictured in my mind and Tally should be the girl that was on the Uglies book cuz thats how i pictured her

  1109. OMG this is sooooooooooo bubbly!!!!!!! Can’t wait omg!!!! i got all the books and i talk about them like I am Tally Youngblood 🙂 loll my boyfriend knows so much about the books just because of how much I talk about them :p Can’t wait to hear more about casting calls, I’ll be auditionong :p well i want to at least. that would be soo icy!! :D:D:D:D love the series!!!!!!!!!!

  1110. Wow. That was pure insanity.

    Let me just preface this by saying I don’t mean to sound mean and I know I don’t have a right to tell you what to do (among other things, I’m new here), but I think someone’s got to say it:

    Though luv_David (who posted a few months ago) may have seemed rude, she had a point.

    I know you guys are really excited about this, just as I am, and it’s perfectly fine to express that with, you know, smiley faces and exclamation points and messages of encouragement. However, please remember whose blog this is. This is Mr. Westerfield’s blog. Sure, the blog is kept for your sake, but please respect it.

    By respect I mean stick to the topic.

    Please don’t go off on long tangents about what’s going on in your lives and why you hate/love Twilight.

    Look, I don’t like Twilight either. In fact, I hate it. But this blog isn’t about Twilight. It’s about Uglies and a possible Uglies movie. And if you guys want to talk about all this and what’s going on in your lives and carry on private conversations, that’s what forums are for. Search “Uglies Forum” on Google, and I’m sure you’ll find something. If you don’t like that, I’ll even make a forum for you.

    By respect I also mean actually listening to the author.

    He asked us to refrain from asking him about casting and such. We all knew that, but many people did it anyway. The movie isn’t even to a point where they would consider casting yet, as far as I know. If Scott asks us not to obsess over casting, don’t obsess over casting.

    I hate to be a pessimist, but please remember: we don’t even know if/when this movie is going to go through. Just because the producers are listening to the author more than usual doesn’t mean that he’s going to be able to tell them what to do or that he will have as much power as you may think.

    He may be able to suggest things, but that doesn’t mean he can go up to Angelina Jolie and say, “Hey, you, be in my movie.” Things are more complicated than that. He is the professional author. They are the professional movie makers.

    MY BIGGEST POINT:
    There are over 1000 comments on this post as of right now. And you are all making suggestions and stuff that are really great. But do you really think that Scott is going to read all of these? It took me about five hours to get through 600 comments before giving up.

    Scott’s a busy guy. He may love us, his fans, but do you really think he’s going to read all of these? If we descend from serious suggestions to mindless chatter, I doubt he’s going to pay much attention anymore. I’m not even going to post my suggestions here, because I don’t think he’ll end up reading them.

    Please try to be a little more mature next time he posts something about the Uglies Movie. He’s looking for serious suggestions, not small-talk and irrelevant arguments! We’re lucky enough that he has an active blog at all!

    So please consider taking all of the chatter to a forum of some sort if you want your suggestions to be heard.

    I’m not trying to criticize or single anybody out. These are my suggestions.

    Thanks,
    Vicky

  1111. Whoa, that was the longest post ever. Sorry, guys… I don’t mean to offend, but I hope you understand what I’m trying to say. :\

  1112. I’m a new uglies fan but i love it all the same and it made me totally bubbly. I just started extras and it was really happy-making. Scott was so not brain-missing when he wrote extras. Well i just read that Uglies will finally be a movie and be released in 2011. Im not sure if it was said by a truth-missing person though.

  1113. ok so i finished the uglies series in less than a week… iv got wayyyy 2 much time on my hands

    sept i didnt read bogus to bubbly the library didnt have it!!!

    it was wosome
    o and u probabaly dont know what wosome means (me and hot chocolet dont mix lol)

    btw wosome is a combo of wonderfull and awsome i know im a bit of a freak

    and i cant spell hehe

    but thats what every1 loves bout me 😀

    so anyways i think cool no to p ick a famious person 4 Tally and Shay

    omg i am in love with Shay she wosome 😀

    i know im a girl and i just said i was in love with another girl but o well who cares

    hehe

    i think it would bbbb cool 2 see Uglis on the big screan

    gets me away from my mom
    wow that was a lil mean but o well

    but i agree if they put the three books 2gether that would just b stupid

    but yeah i do think that they should get some good wait no GRATE director 2 shoot uglies cuz i didnt like the twilight movie i just found it stupid i sooo preferd the book over the movie but that dont mean i aint ganna go c new moon i mean come on it could b better but i like jacub so that s kinda the only reason im ganna c it hehe im so weird 😛

    im probabaly getting anoying so well bye bye hehe 😛

    kRISSY

  1114. ping to Vicky: Seems like u have a lot on ur mind. And just a heads up for u, Scott-la created a forum already on the tabs on top of the screen (can’t think of a technical word for it.). Anyway I see u were getting ur point across. If I can remember, I think I was the one who ran luv_david off so I’m going to see if they actually made a point after all so ok. Also, I’m disregarding what is said above by Krissy and the other newbies that haven’t been on here for a while or ever, but no one ever even talks about twilight on here anymore. Sure in the beginning there were some petty little arguments like, the movie is/isn’t going to be better than Uglies or something of the like, but I’m not going to go check. This is all I have to say, and since Scott-la hasn’t posted a single thing about this in 4 months, I doubt it will ever come up again unless it’s really true. so bye. Not feeling like it emotionally, but since it’s my sign off, I’m going to do this. 😀

  1115. P.S. ping to Vicky: So you won’t have anythimg to say about it, I know I talk about my life on here and I know this is SW-la’s blog, but these people are my friends and until I get a facebook after waiting 2 1/2 years, (or get onto the forum) I will continue to do so. Just not nearly as much. bye 😀

  1116. Lolyeah, sorry about that last post XD. I wasn’t exactly in a good mood that day. And I know I didn’t have a right to speak for Scott. So go ahead and talk about your life and stuff, lol. It’s great that you’ve got friends on here and all that. So yeah, sorry about that. ];

  1117. Oh, and since I read all of that stuff in one day, I basically forgot that all of this was posted in a span of three months or so. So yeah, it probably wouldn’t have seemed so overwhelming if I’d read it at the same pace you’d been posting :\

  1118. Iz Ok ping to Vicky: I know how u feel. As the ping says, it’s OK! 😀
    Also, looking back on all of my old posts, I never realized how fun laughing @ your own stupidity and randomness could be! 😀 bye and this time, I mean the smiles!

  1120. There are no words to describe about how excited I am about this movie. As a huge UGLIES fan…I must say this is the highlight of my life. I have always wanted this series to become a movie, because I just felt it’d be the greatest movie ever! I read the series when I was in high school, and I read them all in three days, and then the final EXTRAS came out and I was even more excited. I’m in the process of re-reading them again, and I always try to get my friends to read them. This is perhaps the most epic moment in my life. I’ve waited far too long for this time to come…

  1121. i just started reading this book and it is awesome if it dose turn to a movie it would be as big as twilight and there will deff be more after the first one cuz look how many ppl wrote like really i am number 1121 and if the ppl that make the movie sees this and how many fans want this they are crazy to say no to it and a lot of unhappy fans that will make a big deal about it………..but i cant wait for it . it will be one of the movies that ppl will be talking about for a while and yeah some ppl are right it would be cool to have actors/actresses that are not are not that new or really didnt star in many movies cuz it would be fresh and new and that is what ppl are looking for these days lol

    LONG LIVE THE SMOKES!!!
    ;p lol i stole that saying from ppl up top lol

  1122. I’m so STOKED for an Uglies movie!! The first time I read the book and then the series I thought it should immediately be made into a movie…

    You know what would be a pretty cool idea???? If there were open auditions for the parts of tally, shay, david and zane. That way those roles would probably be cast to people who are absolutely unknown, and maybe the actors will have read or be fans of the book already and be acquainted with the character they are playing and actually do a good job so they don’t bomb it like other Sci-Fi movies did.

    Just saying, it would be pretty bubbly-making for some of your die-hard fans be cast in those roles and doing an awesome job giving each character the actual personality you intended on them having.

    *~*The New Smoke Lives*~*

  1123. I am so excited that there will be an Uglies movie!!! I can’t wait until it comes out! I have read all of the books and even Bogus to Bubbly! This movie is going to be so exciting making!

  1124. Well I for one would love to see Uglies then twilight, it says “make a movie out of me” all over its cover, or at least uglies does, im not sure how twilight got there. but yeah, it needs to be a movie, hehe start a collection on your website…ive got like $17.84 in my pocket atm, its yours if itll help any.

  1127. IVE BEEN DYING TO WATCH UGLIES THE MOVIE!!!

    Personally im not a big book reader but after reading uglies i rushed out to get pretties…i’ve never been so into a book before let alone finish one!!
    THANK YOU FOR MAKING SUCH AN ADDICTIVE BOOK!!
    it has been most intreasting between tally and david and what their willing to do for each other

  1128. AHH! TOO MANY NEWBIES!!!!
    JK. 😀
    Ping to Anna-la: I’m going to try and create a trailer for the HUnger Games and Catching Fire. And Leviathan If I ever get to it. AHH! STUPID KEYBOARD! WHATS W/ALL THE FREAKIN Capitalization?! jtugtgtuWW gh hg8highqghGIIFKYMUW9JQ[ Sorry FOR THE SPAZTIC MOMENT DARN STUPID CAPS LOCK!!!! HAHA Spazticmoment over. I will continue with my research that I havent started so thanks for the info. 😀

  1129. ping to Anna-la: CRapit! I’m too poor for a Macbook! Just Kidding. Do you know of any software avadible (typo) for a Dell? It seems like I’m being lazy so I will continue to research. Thanks for what help you’ve given me! 😀

  1132. These books were made to be movies! I cant wait! I think I might even buy the movie if it is good. They messed up so much on The Golden compass 🙁 and Twilight isn’t even a good enough books to even considered being make into a movie.

  1133. OMG I screamed when i found out that they might do this book into a movie. The UGLIES series are my favorite book of all times:):) im actually reading it again right now lol, i wished i could play the part of tally but im no actress, and idk…. but hopefully everything turns out great:):):):):):)

  1135. Whatever you do do NOT get Thora Birch to play Tally. NOOO and DO get danial radcliff to play david. He isn’t perfect, but he’s a good acter and fits the description more than anything else. You want unknowns for Tally and Shay.

  1137. I dont know if i want it to become a movie or not because if they screw this up i wont like these books

  1138. Is Uglies still going to be a movie??! I love acting so if there are open auditions I’m so going! Haha chances are I’d be cast as an extra, though…:( lol I really hope this movie is just as good as the book!

  1139. ping to brinks-la: WTFF! (What The Foam Finger!) no offense but… NO FLIPPIN WAY! NO ACTORS FROM BOOK/MOVIES SHOULD EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER PLAY A DIFFRENT PART ON A SEPERATE MOVIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! it’ll just make everyone suffer from confusing, head-throb making pains because they’ll have whatcharacterdidthisactor/actressplayinthatotherbookmoviebecauseIcan’tseemtoremembercausethebookrockedandthemovieprettymuchsucked-itis. Plus, they’ll look like this:
    * *
    O_O

    TEE-HEE! Aren’t I wonderful with run-on-sentences and bad emoticon sickness faces? JK! Anyway, PEACE OUT GIRL SCOUTS! 😀

  1140. YES!!!! I so hope it gets made into a movie! Though im not to happy about the idea once it hits everybody will be all”oh yeah Ive loved the series FOREVER” phst yeah right. If they do make it though THE CASTING HAS TO BE PERFECT or darn close to it. Especially the casting for Tally, David and Zane. It is of the most importance! Im so glad you wrote these books! Congrats Scott and thanks for sharing this with us!!!!!!!!!

  1141. i agree with number 1140, now that i think of it, i dont want people becoming fangirls, (or boys for that matter) over a series so intelligent and thrilling. i dont want to sound selfish, but someone who doesnt want to take the time to read it shouldnt really fall in love with it. but thats just me being the thinker of my friends.

    still, regarding the movie news, im hoping it happens. i have already posted in the other comment board with my movie input.
    and, regarding my selfish input, i think the movie shouldnt be blown out of proportions in advertising. of course it wouldnt be best for the business, it would be better for my own comfort (:

    again, im hoping this happens, but am also hoping it doesnt get out of control <3

  1142. i thought the book was great and ill love the movie but make sure it doesnt turn out like twilight that was nothing like the book. basically dont sell out okay.

  1143. Books were amazing!! I know you’ve probably heard this a thousand times or more but they really are!

    About the movie (if or when) it comes out (fingers crossed people!) that the people who are making better not mess it up!! This needs to be bubbly(:

  1144. WRIGHT MORE OF THE BOOKS! i just finished the last one specials i know that there is extras but that just explains things right. dude u could easily make her story go on. the last book left a whole bunch of possabilities. im probably a little late i mean my 8th grade language arts teacher showed it to us. when i finished uglies before the rest i went out and bought the rest. these are great. and if the movie comes out im lining up for it. make sure its action packed a little. like where the smoke gets invaded. ooooh thatll be good. make sure the specials are beast looking too.
    PS: when was the last time u updated ive seen a trailer is it a real one

  1145. the uglies books are about 900000000000000000000000o0000 times beter than twilight. twilight was horrible, actually.

  1146. This is so exciting! I can’t wait to hear more information about the Uglies movie! And casting calls sounds amazing. This is by far the best series I have EVER read! 😀

  1147. okaii. TAlly HAS to have orange-ish brown-ish hair like she does on the cover. like i mean im pretty sure thats supose to be her. and hair hair shouldnt be actually *frizzy* but you know how some people straightened here hair too much? kind like that. and shay, i allways pictured her with dark brown hair, a little past her sholders. and bangs. she souldnt be playsed by someone famous. like i mean. really? but i pictured her skin to be a tanish brown-ish color cuz she is the kinda girl you would see always out side. one of her fave things to do is hover board. and she goes to the rusty ruins a lot so she seems like a girl who would be tan from being out side.
    and doctor camble. should be playes by someone capable of being stone cold. like i pictured her as the doctor from x-men, the last stand. the woman who takes care of the little boy who is the cure. yeah, her. =] she is pretty and she looks like a person who could play a cold charactor.

    and when with the try outs from the movie charactors be?? i REALLY want to play shay. that would be cool. so yeah when would that be?

  1148. dr. camble should be played by: Shohreh Aghdashloo
    she totally fits the part. she would be perfact!
    and for prettys the girl who plays tally for that movie should be played by: Alexz Johnson, you know the girl from instant star. but when she has red hair. or a brown-ish red color would work. becuase she totally looks like tally on the cover of prettys.. am i right?? lol

  1149. OMG!!! i cant wait me and all my friends toally love these book. i can not wait to see in. these books are 100 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 times better then twilight or anyother books!! gah! i cant wait! lol
    thanx Scott-la

  1150. Scott,your an amazing writer,Ive read twilight,and everyone thinks since its a big hit,then Steppahnie is a good writer [I notice the spelling mistake] But shes not very good in my opinion.
    She always explains every little detail,making the book very boring….and asks many questions and overdoes it.
    Your book is addicting,never gets boring,they’res never a part where you can just be like “Okay,Ill stop here” its just so intresting.
    I promise you,Uglies,will be just as good as twilight!
    EVEN BETTER

    Love,Sarah-la

  1151. I agree with you Gemma-la these are better books…I’m so excited for the movie, I wish it would come out sooner… I really wish I could be one of the characters in the movie. They have to pick the right people to be the actors, or it will total ruin the whole movie… Scott your a guinece for writing this book seires, your the best. Thanks so much for writing them.
    This movie will be much better then twilight if they follow the book.

  1152. The fact that Scott Westerfield MAY read this comment is SO exciting. I loved the Uglies trilogy, recommended it to everyone I know, and oddly enough, my grandmother was the biggest fan. So the fact that there is even talk about a movei makes me so happy for the author!! Not to mention, the fans. I should say, though, after I watch the movie, I am probably going to start talking like these futureheads again. Haha, SCI FI ROCKS! 🙂

  1153. i agree tally sould be an unknowen actor it will just make the movie 10 times better. Peris , David , Croy and the other Smokies sould also be unknowen actors to. Maddy and Az sould be knowen actors and Dr. Cable sould be on too. LOVE the books iam working on extras. It would be sooo cool to see the uglies world outside the books. And you really got to show the detalis about her tricking the city. I wanna Ride a hoverboard that would be soooo cool!!!!

    *sorry about the spelling*

  1154. Congrats Scott!! Hey I’d love to see Uglies as a movie! About the casting I know peole are bugging you about it but I think it would be awsome to be in the movie! I’d love to play Tally or Shay. I’ve taken acting classes and would absolutly love to be in the movie. So you hear anything about open auditions I’d like to hear about it. P.S. COULD YOU MAKE THE AUDITIONS CLOSE TO OHIO PLEASE? I’d be there to try out if you could. PROMISE.

  1155. Oh my, I really hope that its none of the 3 in one crap, and I hope its VERY true to the book.
    Don’t let me down like Harry Potter D;

  1156. I had to read Uglies in my Young Adult Fiction class at college and fell in love with it. I read the entire series even though only Uglies was part of the classe’s syllabus. I always thought it would make a great TV series, but a movie would be amazing too!

    I think Catherine Zeta Jones would be a great Dr. Cable. I agree with many of you that Tally would need to be an unknown. How about Rachel Melvin? Other than that I don’t really have many ideas for casting.

    I just hope the movies are a hit. I have a tendency to be let down whenever I read a book before I see the movie becuase it’s always better in my head.

    Good luck!

  1157. Okay, this is so going to sound weird but while reading the series the first person that popped into my mind as a good Tally was Demi Lavato. I know, I know, she’s famous, but still, if you look at the cover of the first book and look at her face they seem to be slightly similar.

  1158. Well, this is…weird-making. Why do you want some random bubblehead play Tally Youngblood in one of those ‘movie’ things when I’m right here? Did the “mind-rain” (or whatever everyone’s calling it these days) not get to you or something? Could one of you ping me and tell me what is going on? And someone also tell me what ‘Hollywood’ is…or it might get ugly.
    -Tally Youngblood

    ************* (count the *! my lucky number!)
    haha just kidding my real name is Savannah (call me Tally-wa or Savvy-la) and I’m DYING to play Tally!! omgosh you have noooooo idea how well I’d play her (no I’m NOT big-headed, I’m just campaigning here!)! and hey, it’s not my fault a bijillion total strangers have asked me if (to quote one girl that I started talking to because she saw me reading Uglies for the 13th time!) “have you been in movies? you look EXACTLY like how I imagine Tally Youngblood!” yeah…that was totally bubbly-making! it was really sweet (sweet as in awesome and sweet of the girl to say that…its a great compliment if you’re told that!)
    and to Erin Harte…Demi Lovato would be awesome as Tally if I couldn’t play the part 🙂 but even though I love Demi, and I’m sure Scott and the movie producers would choose Tally wisely, I’ll still murder to be Tally…except I wouldn’t kill Demi, I’d just gently move her out of my way 😉 lol funny how Mr. Westerfeld said to stop asking about casting calls and all, but we still are!
    haha, just remember ‘savannah lake’ when casting Tally…i’ve been acting for about 5 years fyi lol i’m such a campaigner! but yeah that explains my Tally-ness at the beginning…gotta love acting! 🙂
    Tally-wa/Savvy-la

    “When it all comes down to it, everything is bubbly for the better, or everything is bogus for the better…”

  1159. I CANT WAIT FOR THE MOVIE! i really like the series! i just finished and i cant believe somebody can think of something so amazing…..

    i didnt get were the Extras lived in the end…..THE MOON? i didnt get it at all…..not sure……………………………………….. Someone please answer!

    hope the movie is great like the books! i think Twilight got ruined…….i didnt like it at all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    cant wait for the movie to come out..

    -Hannahbelle Flowers

  1160. OMFG! i have read all of the Uglies series WAY more than once and i CAN NOT BELIEVE that they are even thinking about optioning it!!

    oh, and i cried like hell when Zane died :,(
    i had to read that part over again cause i couldnt believe it.

  1161. Ping to Tally Youngblood/Savannah Lake (call me Tally-wa or Savvy-la): HOW DARE YOU TECHNICALLY STEAL MY NAME!!! lol! Know any acting classes I could take? I did some for a year when I was about 7, but then this evil teacher (so evil I will do this face 😈 and that if this wasn’t the internet where people can judge me for what I type, I would call her a bunch of bad names.) and it just ruined the whole experience. Anyway, I know this girl @ my school who just got a movie part in the movie “Lifted. Yes I know you’ve probably never heard of it but the trailer’s pretty entertaining! (Just Youtube it. She’s the one in blue) Too bad she’s not really my friend… (not that she’s snooty or butt-holeish or anything. She’s actually very nice except that I don’t know her very well. And she made me kinda jelous last year because she went out with my crush for a month and it made me really PO’ed… sorry. Talking about my life when it’s not my blog..) Anyway, hope to see you! 😀

  1162. this is so exciting!! i definitely want to know about open casting calls! im not known well or big and i think i could do great! and i am IN LOVE WITH THIS SERIES. I was actually thinking about if they were making a movie or not last night so i got on and checked!!!!! im sooooo excited!

  1163. I am looking forward towards this movie, one person that I notice on a palm-pre commercial was Tamara Hope. I didn’t know who she was until I researched that commercial but she looks like a girl who can play a role in the Uglies. I just noticed it that she will be a great part maybe the main character?

  1166. omgosh ive always wanted this to be a movie! like they said its a movie in itself, it is such an amazing book it paints a picture so well in your mind. The movie will have to be as dead on as can be with so many loyal fans already having the image of everything in their head.

  1167. omg!!! i hope this series become movies!!! and i agree with every1 make tally shay and david unknown actors and then make dr cable maybe a famous actor!!! plez make it a movie!!! cant wait if u do!!!

  1168. i so can not wait for this to happen. me and my friend are totally stoked. i agree, shay tally and david HAVE to be unknown. i cant wait to see how theyll do all the technology like the maglev boards and everything. god, its gonna be AMAZING!!!!!

  1169. Hey the OTHER Tally Youngblood!
    Oh I hate it when I take acting classes with those crazy mean teachers! Yikes! :p Well, I took classes @ south coast repertory in Costa Mesa for awhile, and those were totally awesome! I guess that finding good acting classes really all depends on where you live, but if you live in SoCal like me I could list a few. I would recommend starting small: do a few plays/musicals, memorize monologues and perform for yourself or family, and also audition EVERYWHERE! It doesn’t matter if you actually get a part (or if you really want a part), you just need to make sure ppl know about you and know you are interested in acting.
    Also, if you have a community college somewhere nearby, try taking an acting class there. They can get a bit dirty though so be careful. 🙂 okay not a bit, more like absolutely disgustingly dirty! blegh ughhhhhh! XP
    Lol, I’ll take a look at that! So is her part like a main role or a sort of main, or minor, or extra? I have a few friends who have done acting stuff like that. My friend Alli was an extra in an episode of Hannah Montana…she was in a scene in an episode where Rico forced Jackson to dress up in a red sparkly dress and be his “lovely assistant” in an impromptu magic show. Bwahaha! She was wearing pink capris with big flowers on them. It was pretty cool, even though I don’t watch a lot of tv.
    Sorry for the delayed response…my laptop at home has a blog-blocker (love you mom) so I can only get to this blog when I can use other computers. 🙂
    Haha wish me luck on the Hollywood scene. my mom and dad would flip out if I even peeked into a room where ppl were auditioning for a movie…and yikes it would not be pretty! In fact, it would be pretty darn ugly! 🙂
    Tally-wa/Savvy-la!

  1170. An Uglies movie would be amazing, I am pretty sure if a movie does come out it will be alot bigger than lame Twilight!!!!

  1172. hi mr. scott.i love ur series.im not going to bother u about casting,but i thnk maggie gillinhal shud play davids mom.but i thnk i wud make a descent david.im not the most attractive person i thnk but i hv qualities that make me unique and likable.im not trying to sound conceited but i wud really want to act.its my passion.iv been scrwed with too much in acting cuz i falll for scams.so thnk about it and please contact me.btw im black so davids mom wudnt b gud if i wer. take care buy:)

  1173. hi first off i love you and your books they are AMAZING!! if you make a movie for this book it would be awesome but dont do like disney people for casting because they are all just wierd

    I cant wait for the movie!!!!!!

  1174. OMG, if a movie does dome out, i swear i will see it the day it comes out! I’ve read every single book, and i love all of them SO much, I’m reading the series all over again! It so totally rox!

  1175. i saw twlight-new moon last night.and all i could think about was the Uglies series.So i came back on here to read this post again and again and again and the butterflies keep coming back.
    i seriously can’t wait
    keep posting with any news!
    have a great day :]

  1176. uglies would be such a good movie: tons of people would go see it because of how popular the books are, and moviemakers could do so much with it. it’d be a slendor for the eyes XD

  1177. Scott Westerfeld hasn’t posted here in months, does anyone know what’s is going on? Are they making the movie? Are they casting?

  1179. YAAAY! I can’t be more excited! Let’s watch Uglies get more fans that twilight! So, are you on team David or Zane? LOL

  1180. I really LOVE the Uglies series!!! I just got finished with Extras today and I am hoping to get Bubbly to Bogus: Insider’s Guide for Christmas. That would be totally happy-making! 🙂 If not, I will buy it myself. As for my opinion on the movie, I really super hope it will come out (and soon!) and that the producers will make it true to the book. As for the actors…I really have no idea! Whoever’s best, I guess! 🙂

  1181. i think Tilda Swinton would be perfect for Dr. cable.not only is her attitude perfect, her look in general is exactly right. and i think anna popplewell would be good for like shay or something, maybe even tally but i dont know if she might be too old for those parts

  1182. we need to know if there will be a movie or not! the suspense is killing me!!! and from the looks of it im not the only one. please Mr. Westerfeld let us know anything. thanks for the wonderful books you write! You have a great mind!

  1185. Please! More updates! I’ll die if I don’t know! Lol does anyone know what’s going on with the movie right now?!
    Btw- Yesterday on a commercial for ‘It’s on With Alexa Chung’, Alexa was talking about hoverboards! And she said happy-making! 🙂 Just thought I’d share…

  1186. i think the books are GREAT!! and i hope the characters are as good as i hope. and i would love to be in the movie :-))

  1187. I have read all the books in a month, they are amazing and making a movie trilogy would just make my life. I would pay to see them all more than once!

  1188. My friends call me absessed with the books. Uglies is the first book I read over 200 pages. I just love the books there my favorit. I wish the movie would come out faster. I would see them so many times I would have them memorized. I would get the movie the first day it comes out on DVD if it ever does. So would any one be team David or team Zane? I don’t know what team I would be.
    sorry about spelling.

  1189. I just started to read these book’s recently and I really enjoy them. And that’s coming from someone who never reads. xD I hope Uglies will be turned into a movie, but I hope they won’t leave many (or none) of the parts out that are in the book, or that would kind of ruin the movie some.

    My idea of Tally should be get an actor who looks a lot like the cover of the book and who has the same description of her in the book. Well that’s all I’ve got to say…

    Good Luck Scott~

  1190. That’s awesome news. Tally and Sahy must be unknown actors.Someone suggested Rachel Melvin for Tally, I like that suggestion.

  1191. i have been wanting to tell you that you should get in touch with “Waldenmedia”, “Jerry Brookhigmer” and more because if you did this movie with the right actors and producers it would be phenomal, and i think it would be like the next “Twilight, or New Moon” maybe even “Harry Potter”, i also think that “Emma Roberts/”NACY DREW”,the movie” would be good for “TALLY”, and “Annasophia Robb/”SLEEP WALKING”/BRIDGE TO TERABITHIA”,the movies” would be good for “SHAY”,and “Taylor Lautner/”Twilight/New Moon/Cheaper By The Dozen2″,the movies” as “David”,and “Josh Hutcherson/Bridge To Terabithia/Journey To The Center Of The Earth/Rv/Zathura” as “Zane”, good luck Mr. Westerfield, i also think “Kristen Stewart/Twilight/New Moon/Catch That Kid/Adventure Land”,the movies” should be someone in all the movies/books. im thirteen,im a girl,my names is Kayla and i love uglies

  1192. This is just awesome~! To know that it’ll turn into a movie. I totally love this book. I can’t wait to see it and I know it’ll be one hell of a bubbly making movie~~!!

  1194. I know that Ellen Page doesnt exactly meet the description of Tally but she would be great for her its just the way she acts……

  1197. ahhhhhh!!!!!!i love those books!good luck fitting all that awesomeness on a screen!woo-hoo scott-sensei!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!movies that are set in the future always look fake so i hope it doesnt suck like everything else!!!!!!!!

  1200. I have utterly obsessed with the Uglies Series, i’ve read Uglies,Pretties, and Specials over and over and never get tired. I do these books for all my school english book projects. Yes every year. Because it actually makes me want to do good if it has to do with these books. I relaly dont know where I stand with makign a movie, I just feel this book is WAY too god for a movie. No actors could play the roles of these characters perfectly, and I cant imagine how they will ever make this amazing world come to life. I do know though, Taylor Lautner should play David xP Well Scott, I wish all the best to you and your amazing books. I am actually in the mist of doing my 2nd quarter project. Its on specials this time 😀 I’m pretty sure your done with these series after Extras. But if you could ever maybe write a mini-book on Tally & David, that’d be absolutley icy. If there ever is a movie, you’ll deffiantly see me at the midnight premiere. -> Your Biggest Fan, Emma-wa

  1201. I think this movie will be GREAT! As long as they don’t mess it up. I think you’re such a great author, Scott. I want to be an author myself and I really look up to you. You made a fantastic book that left you things to think about: technology, humanity, nature, trust, friendship, fame, etc. I think this movie will be a great hit, not only because of the great fantasy and world of the Uglies series, but because of the secret messages within.

    ~Inspired Writer, Reader, and Fan.

  1202. For Tally, you could use the people who posed for the book covers. Just a suggestion. Oh, and if they end up doing the whole series, will they also do Extras? I hope so…

  1203. Kk so some of you are asking about teams, like team Zane and team David…how about team BOTH! That’s how I am with Jacob and Edward…I’m a team both gal. For instance, I’m team jacob in the movie and team edward in the book. since uglies isn’t a movie yet, I’m team both in the book. 🙂
    omgosh my brain is hoverboarding to other places, like lalaland. i went on a date with a REALLY awesome (and totally cute) guy last night so I guess I’m hoverboarding to lalaland AND dreamland…wow its mind-wrecking what a guy like him can do to me!! tee-hee! 😉
    ooooookay well i better go or else i’m just gonna talk and talk and talk and not think about it. if you’ve ever seen ‘Fred’ on youtube, i’m like ‘Fred’s sister’…i need my medication!!!! lol cya l8r ugly-8rs! 🙂
    Savvy-la

  1206. Ok to any of u that say Kristen Stewart sucks- YOU SUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!! She would be awesome as 1 of the main characters!!! And I am team David! David is awesome! Zane is a lozer! Tally just loves him cuz she has the brain lesions! I have more to say but I can’t. Hurry with the movie Scott!

  1207. i truly do love this book. When i first read it was the 2nd book and even though i was a bit confused i still loved it. after that book i read the other 2 and Extra and all in all Scott you did an amazing job. oh and Zane is not a loser.

  1209. My friend and I are obsessed with Uglies. We even call each other “lis-wa” and “Iz-la”. The books are amazing and we’re both much anticipating the arrival of the Uglies movie, should it be made (which hopefully it will!!)

    Currently, there’s a gang of about 20 girls at my school who are eagarly awaiting news of the confirmation of the movie. The books were amazing, I just hope that the movies can live up to them!

  1210. The characters need to be REAL! No making shays or tallys or anyone skin perfect. No taking out things, and NO famous people for tally or shay.

  1211. OMG…(fan girl scream!) i am so excited for this!!! To see Tally and Shay on the big screen is going to be sooo amazing!!! I can’t wait to see all the technology and the city and the Smoke!! Especially David and Zane!!! Ahhh gorgeous Zane lol…and sweet sweet David!! haha.. =)

  1212. To whoever read specials and is teamzane… IN YOUR FACE!!!!!!!!!!!!! And team david lovers…. woohoo. i wasnt happpy bout it but i dont like zane. hurry with that movie scott!!!!!

    And scott, you are a great writer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  1213. Thora Birch is my age or older, I”m guessing early 30’s, so she would not be a good fit for Tally. I can’t wait for the movie, I am giving Uglies as Christmas presents this year!

  1214. I have always been a big fan of these books starting about 3 years ago. Im 21 now and I’m still rooting for this project.

    The consept of of the stories Scott Westerfield created aren’t the kind of stories that get boring with age. They are still very appealing to older people. Even my mother liked the first one! And she never reads. 🙂

    Unknowns is for sure what all of us want to see. But it wouldn’t upset me if every single line of text didn’t make it into the movie. Just seeing it in front of my eyes and not behind them would make me happy.

    I have a feeling that if this book got made into the movie the books would explode all over again!

  1215. I am a tall (5’3) twelve-year-old with dirty-blonde hair. I love acting, but I have never been in a movie before. I enjoy performing in lots of plays. Do you think that there is a spot for me in the Uglies movie? Maybe I could be one of the new uglies at the dorm who asks tally why she hasn’t had her surgery yet, or some random smokie…

  1217. Vanessa Williams could be Dr.Cable she can scare the living shit out of people and she can still be like super beautiful at the exact same time……..

  1218. Wow! Just legendary! Your publishing manner is pleasing and the way you dealt the subject with grace is admirably. I am intrigued, I presume you are an expert on this topic. I am subscribing to your future updates from now on.

  1219. Oh well , listen to me , this wasnt an option , Iglies HAD TO be a movie sooner or later , it’s an awesome story ! i discover it , in a library not so long ago .. well i’m a little late 🙂 . But , i’m reading ” pretties ” now , today i was thinking , ” Uglies definitly should be a movie . So ijust googled Uglies movie , and ended up here !

    i hope this is really gonna be a movie i’d be so happy 🙂

    i swear i usually don’t enjoy reading very much unless a really really REALLY love a book . AND I TOTALLY love this one , awesome , awesome awesome ,

    Btw , Uglies is way better than twilight 🙂 So, i guess this could be a really great movie ^^ .

  1221. I’d love for Uglies to become a movie. the book is already like a movie. i just hope they get the casting right and the movie better not turn out like another twilight where they cut out half of the book.

  1222. I think the role of doctor cable should be played by Angelina Jolie because she has that cruel pretty look, with sharp eyes.
    I really hope this becomes a movie!!! I adore your books Scott!!!
    Thank your for writing them 🙂

  1223. HI EVERYONE! Guess i kinda thought that this piece of the blog fell off the face of the universe cause I’mposting on all the newer ones. You guys have GOT to read Leviathan, Scott-la’s new book. Weird, I always refer to him as Scott-la no matter what.
    Ping to Tally Youngblood: Hi other me! The last thing I tried to be involved in showbiz was trying out 4 the school play last year in middle school. I refused to sing since I suck at it, and that’s why I didn’t make it…
    Anybody seen Avatar yet? I heard it was awesome!

  1224. okay this series turning into a movie is a awesome idea- but i pray that the acting and effects well be wayyy better then the twilight saga. i am big fan of twilight but im also a big fan of the uglies series soo the movie(s) better be wayy better! 😀 kay

  1225. I think the movie will be a great adventure of Tally’s world as a movie and we could be able to picture how future could look like for teens.LOL on the last [paragraph Scott.hope it turns into a movie so we can addition soon.

  1226. Cool! I’m just worried that it’ll turn into a Twilight or something. I hope the movie cast does not ruin the characters and how I imagine Tally’s world. We probably all have a different picture of Tally’s world.

  1227. my best friend is having a fit on the other end of the phone….*shakes head* lol but i’m excited:)
    she’s trying 2 talk me in2 trying out 4 Tally-.- (any opinions any1? no harsh ones please)
    well anyway I’M EXCITED!!!!!!!

  1228. i was the one having the fit *sigh* i soo want shay-la’s part she is so awsome love scott’s book i hope this will be a ,ovie itd be soo awsomeit has to look beter than twilight though

  1229. Okay, no one probably will look at this suggestion, since – lets put it straight – not many people go through the entire list, it’s like seven billion pages in word :\

    ANYWAYS, sorry for rambling, but I do think there should be unknowns for a lot of the parts, and some known people for a lot, too.

    They should do casting for shay and tally like they did for aang in the last airbender. I think paramount – or whoever – put up a website just so people can audition easier. Like, it had five little buttons saying stuff for parents(safety), requirements(or whatever), then the other three were rules for email auditions, mail auditions, and to set up an actual audition thing.

    I think this would be REALLY helpful in casting a lot of the people. I mean, people without agents cant really get a hold of the Davis’ – the producer people. And it would help people with them.

    hope that all wasnt *too* rambling-ish. I tried to get it all down in the least amount of space – without making it not make sense.

    I hope that made sense :\

  1230. ping to Shelly: thats a rele great idea 🙂 probably 1 of the best i’ve heard 🙂 on the cover of the pretties book, every1 says i look very similar to that girl because i have the same shade of blue eyes and my hair is the same shade of brown:) i’d love 2 be tally 🙂
    btw i love the series scott, it’s the best 🙂

  1231. I dont know how u came up wit the name last name but that is what made me want to read the story because that is my last name!!!! I love this novel it has been my favorite!!!!!! I cant wait till the movie!!!

  1232. OMGGGGGGGG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    cant believe its going to come out:D
    i finished all the series in one week haha it was that good….
    i remember sleeping at 4am just to read this book lol

  1233. This series is soooo already movie ready! Any books that can keep me awake till 2-3 in the morning must be good. I honestly do not think that the actors matter as much as the special effects. I’m sure that the casting director would love to search new talent for this movie. The young, fresh and VERY GOOD actresses and actors out there will get there chance with this movie. But the special effects and the ability to change people throughout the whole series is going to be key! ****Spoiler**** Can’t you just see Shay and Tally going supper icy at the Armory. And how awesome would the helicopter stuff be. Tally stuck to the underside etc. I’m of the oppinion that the movies must all be made to tell the whole story and the actors must sign on for the full trilogy. I’m more excited to see the “Specials” book played out in a movie than anything.
    And lastly… Please give us a little PG-13 action. I really need to see the kisses that change Tally. That will need to be pretty powerful!

  1234. I just started the series but can not wait!!! This book series makes my top 5. That is really impressive… Twilighters, House of Nighters, City ofers (City of Bones, Ashes, and Glass), and Deaders (dead is the new black, dead is a state of mind and dead is so last year) better watch out!!!! The Uglies series is here to knock them out!!! GO SCOTTLA!!!!!! We are all supporting you… This would be a great movie series… Like some people say dont be afraid to make it PG 13… Those kisses are important!

  1235. okay….. i hate that im super late to comment, but i’ll still do it. i LOVE this series… i recommend it to anyone who needs a book. i first read uglies in school, i loved the book but we read it WAY to slow. so when -finaly- we were done reading it i went home and read pretties and specials that day, and extras and bogus to bubbly the next day. i didn’t even think about it becoming a movie because i didn’t think it needed to be one, it was already better in my head than any movie could make it. but now im super excited! i’ll be so frickin mad if they messed it up. please update this site! tell us if anything new is happening! and who optioned it? i heard it ws 20th century fox is that true? and please make it pg-13… people need to take it seriously.

    ps i respect you even more-if thats possible- knowing that you really care about what we have to say.

    very very sincerely marquita.
    pps. i use bubbly language all the time without realizing it 😛

  1236. I was just wondering if you already have a casting director picked out and if so, who they are?

    I love your books and I can’t wait to see the movie when it first comes out if it does, which hopefully it does!!!

    ~Spencer

  1237. I Just bought the First book and needless to say I devoured it in less than 24 hours. I can’t wait to see a Movie production of it, certainly I am thrilled! I can’t wait to read the rest of the series.

    Thank you for writing such a good book! Please continue to do so!

    ~Britt~

  1238. Ping to Scott la: woah.! okay so if your going to do this..it has to be done right, obviously. okay for one..no super famous people as the main characters.not everyone knows/loves tally at first.so they shouldn’t in the movie either right.?i mean i need to get my Own feel on the chick playing her.[personal opinion] secondly…you need to get your butt on hear to make a new blog, haha[: and i think if you were to use a couple of songs by X-Ray dog in the movie..it would automatically give you a feel on the EPICNESS of the movie for brainless/bubble heads whom have not read your amazing books.
    and i think you and the producing team should most Definately look up “uglies fan trailer” on youtube because some of your fans made AMAZING trailers of what they think it should look like.and i think many of them speak for us all.[minus some of the actors/actresses choices]
    the best is one by this girl, her username is… myorli

  1240. Hi Mr. Scott-la and whoever else decides to read this one post out of all of the tons of posts that there are.

    First of all, I would just like to say thank you for taking into consideration your fans’ opinions. I think this will make for a better movie that the audience will like better. And also I want to say congratulations. I know it isn’t for sure that there will be a movie, but from what you wrote, it seems like there is a good possibility.

    I agree with everyone who said that Dr. Cable should be either Tilda Swinton or Emily Deschanel. (Mostly Tilda Swinton, though.) And as I also agree with the fact that the lead roles should be unknown actors. Also, maybe it would be worth considering having the actors be slightly younger than 16 so you can see them age more and they look more vulnerable to start out with. But David should be a little older because he is more mature and wiser and more effected by nature. And everyone cast for this movie needs to have read the books!!!

    I am excited for the special effects in this movie and hopefully those that follow. It will be so cool, but it absolutely has to be done right! It is going to be so BUBBLY!

    Ok thanks and that’s all for now, but maybe more to come if I think of anything else!

  1241. Hi! Im really excited Uglies is gonna be a movie! I agree with everyone who said unkowns for the main roles. I just wish i were older so i coud try for a part! But sadly im only 11. Still a littlie. Im 12 in marh though! Anyway, this movie HAS to be done right! If it comes out anyting like twilight, I think ill sue!

  1244. OMG i would loveeeee if it became a movie n i would love 2 play tally youngblood its been my dream since i was 12 now im 15 i think i can pull it off =)
    eirther way millions would love 2 c uglies a movie!!!

  1245. NO!!! Mr. Westerfeld, PLEASE don’t let them make this movie!!! I had ideas for this movie that you would never even believe!!! It’s amazing… I wanted to be the one to create this.

  1249. 🙂 Hey, Scott just wantz to say how much i love all ur books! they “re terrfic in every way! when i read your books it make me want to feel wat they r feelin and see and explore exactly wat the characters r doin in thee book! its like so ugghhh! i dont knw how to explain it but it feeels so awesome! and if there is a movie i would definetley love to be in it! and i would try my best to be all i can be to make sure i can try to hav the experences that thee characters did hav in the book! 🙂

  1250. I would lOVE to see the book become a movie, and if it does i think they should play Already Gone By Kelly Clarkson cause when i hear this song it fits so perfectly where Tally and David are on a hoverboard together in the book pretties!

  1251. I’d love to see the uglies series become movies. recently read them and i couldn’t stop reading them. as soon as i finished a book i simly continued on to the next one so i hope beyond hope that this becomes a movie cuz only good things can come out of it. most books turned into movies are big hits if done the right away and so all the producers need to do is listen to the fans and just do it. there are a lot of love interests, action, a good plot, realistic characters, and the ending isn’t exactly happily-ever-after which i love about the books. for some reason i can see emily browning as tally. i dont know why but its just a small suggestion. other than that all i can say is that this is an amazing series and i’d love for them to be made into movies.

  1252. Uglies was a great series and I’m sure it will be a great movie.
    Just don’t have Catherine Hicks be the director (lady that did Twilight). She’s not that good, in fact, I don’t like her and neither do a lot of a other people. Have to have a good director for a good movie 🙂

    Keep up the good work :’D

  1253. Reply to Kat-la:
    already gone would be good, but its not….trying to think of a good word……….intense, thumpy, thought-provoking enough. Around the same time I started Uglies, I heard a song called Faded. It’s originally by the Veronicas, but the band Everlife made a cover of it (the cover was the first version of the song I heard). The bridge goes: “I don’t wanna be the picture-perfect pretty girl, who’s got nothin’ to say, I’m not gonna wait around, let you run my whole life down so you can watch me fade away.” And the chorus goes “I’m faded into someone else maybe someone I don’t wanna be.” Its perfect, awe-mazing, and pardon me for being so cheesy: bubbly. 🙂
    But already gone is good for the parts when Tally and David are hoverboarding together.

  1254. NO! you’ve got it all wrong! You HAVE to put a beautiful girl in the leading role, otherwise how does she become pretty? You can make her ‘ugly’, but NOT pretty!!!!!

  1258. I totally agree that Tally, Zane, Shay and David should be unknown actors! There are tons of aspiring actors and actresses (including my self) who would love to be playing characters in a such an amazing story as this one! But even if my, and the millions of other aspiring actors and actresses, dreams don’t come true, Uglies would definitely make an amazing movie! Congrats Scott! Ur books are amazing 🙂

  1259. i just started the series and i am on the pretties. the series is so good that the twilight books are sucking now. uglies series is #1 on the book list of the best books in the world!!!!!!!!

  1260. please a movie would be great i’ve read the books awhile ago but i love it so much i keep re reading the series because its an amazing storyline not having to do so much on love and vampires 🙂

  1261. OK u have to make a movie!!!! i NEED more!!!!!! defintely DO NOT include disney or twilight stars. and this is just a thought, and probably not possible, but do u think that the models who are on the front cover of the books could play the roles? PLEASE dont cut anything out, make them say a few similar lines that were in the books! that would be awesum 4 example when cable says: “you can die ugly for all i care”…along those lines, and angelina joli shouldnt play the role even though she has the features, that ruins the character. I LUV THE BOOKS!!! THEY ROCK!!!! dont change the book!!!!!

  1262. I absolutely love the series. I really hope they make this into a good movie, and not botch it up like Eragon. Please just stick to the book. If the Movie is at least as good as the book it would be an absolute box office smash.

  1263. I abosolutely love this series! Can’t wait till its a movie. 🙂

    Personally I think that Jolie isn’t the best pick for Dr.Cable. I always pictured her as a woman in her 30’s with long long hair tied back into a pony tail, but with thinner lips. They just seem meaner 😛

  1264. i love the uglies series! i read uglies twice. i really think shay should be played by me!!! i love shay, i think i relate to her character. if i had the chance to audition for this movie, i would.

  1265. I think the hardest thing about making this movie is it almost requires the creation of a new standard of beauty. If I’m remembering correctly there’s a scene in the book where Tally looks at magazines filled with pictures of the beauties of our time, and calls them ugly. I feel like the only think that would work would be to computer generate faces for the pretties, or something like that, give the pretties supernaturally perfect faces that are almost alien yet beautiful.
    I dunno, I’m rambling. But I’m really excited about the movie!!

  1266. mr scott sir,please let us kno if we cud patition 2 make this into a movie.i keep hearin that its not gunna b a movie.and if u do sir please hv open auditions.& i agree about unknown actors 4 the cast except dr cable,az,and maddy.plus ur a gr8 writer & u kno wat to do.take care

  1267. Mr. Westerfeld,
    I think that it is an extremely good move that your Uglies series will be turning into a movie. I read your series last year, and I completely fell in love with it. I do wish that all the main characters are not famous, and completely unknowns. Why? I do not want to see another Twilight incident, no offense to any Twilight fan reading this. Also, keep them in the age. A comment stated on how Harry Potter actos are much older, but that is because they started at eleven, the right age to start “Hogwarts” but since some movies took two years to make, well they had to grow up. But sometimes I think that it would be better if the characters were the right age. Please be on set, if the movie is film, and make sure the movie producers do not ruin the movie, like The Frog Princess which was nothing like that actual book

  1268. You know what song would work for the Preties parties?
    Go all the Way, Perry Farrel!
    Everytime I listen to it, it reminds me of the book.

    Gaspard Ulliel… perfect for Zane… Justttt sayyinnn…
    (Gaspard Ulliel!!!!MMM! wouldn’t mind paying 10 dollars just to see him in the movie!)

  1269. Really hoping there will be a movie!! I think I commented once before but I still got something ELSE to say. Okay, people are starting “Team David” & “Team Zane” and crap. It should probably stop or else this move (if it ever is one) is gonna turn into some Twlight crap thing where nobody even cares about the plot and they just love it because of Team Edward & Team Jacob. This movie is not going to be screwy like that.

    But if it is..
    I’m on Team Zane(:

  1270. OMG ever since i read the books i thought they would make amazing movies!!!!!!!!! I would love to get the chance to audition for Tally or Shay if there is a movie so you should have casting calls!! ok im so pysched!!!!!!

  1272. TILDA SWINTON! I’ve always pictured her as Dr. Cable ever since I saw her in The Chronicles of Narnia: Lion/Witch/Wardrobe. She would make a great good/evil person. She has the “cruel beauty” that Westerfeld was talking about.

    KRISTEN STEWART: Maybe she can handle playing Shay or Tally. Get her before she gets too old!

    I hope this doesn’t turn into a Twilighty chick flick! I am a guy, and I liked Uglies because of the action and sequence, not the romance. Yeah, yeah, that’s good and all, but let’s not divert away from the cool, futuristic elements of the story either.

    And, let’s make their transformation into Pretties significant:
    *FLAWLESS skin
    *PERFECT bodies
    *NOT ONE STRAY HAIR (perfection can be attained with computer graphics.)
    *PERFECT posture
    *Make them almost robotically, surreally perfect (but maintain the human element.)

    This would be a fun movie. With some of the designers/creators of Chronicles of Narnia, Stardust and Avatar collaborating to make a visually stunning movie.

  1273. I’d work for FREE in/on this movie! Including pre-, at, and post-production. I would even where shirts/advertisements.

  1274. Also, a color-transition would be great. Like, the movie starts out in barely-noticeably dull colors (using a filter or post-production editing). Then, when the transformation comes, the colors need to POP (like in Clariton commercials!) Color and Sound could be so skillfully woven into the plot sequence… like Chronicles (again) or Wizard of Oz.

  1275. I must say I’m just a little disappointed that someone beat me to the punch. I’m going to school to be a director and I would really do an amazing job on this film, but then again if whoever bought the rights messes up the movie, I will do an awesome remake that will really do Scott’s books justice.

    I agree with one of the earlier comments that Sienna Guillory would be a good option to consider for Dr. Cable. However, I do not agree with another comment made by someone else that the uglies should be uglies. I think the whole point of Scott’s book was to show our generation how our obsession with beauty can turn to madness. Therefore, the uglies should be normal everyday HEALTHY people that just pick on each other because they’ve been brainwashed to believe they just aren’t beautiful enough. Then when they do turn pretty, it should be an artificial beauty that, as this generation, we are not used to but they see as totally normal. Does this make sense?

  1276. I have just finished reading the book for my 10th time. yes I know thats a lot of times but im just making sure i got everything. I wish there was still more info on the movie. I can’t wait im soooooooooooooo excited for the movie. well if they come out with one. LOVE UGLIES!!

  1277. I can die a happy person now=]]
    This movie is going to be EPIC!!!!
    Let’s see if this tops Twilight.
    Oh, Dr. Cable. Totall should be Kristen Stewart.
    Why you ask!

  1278. I can die a happy person now=]]
    This movie is going to be EPIC!!!!
    Let’s see if this tops Twilight.
    Oh, Dr. Cable. Totall should be Kristen Stewart.
    Why you ask!
    Cause she is freakin amazing!!!!

  1279. So basically, Alexis Bledel (Rory Gilmore) as Tally. Maybe more so though when she’s turned pretty.
    I lovelovelove her look, think she suits the character, and she’s an incredible actress and you just know she’d pull it off.

    I want to see this so bad, but it has to be loyal to the book.

  1280. Reply to the OTHER Tally Youngblood (be afraid…):

    Hello Ping-la to other me! That sounded made no sense. Exactly. 🙂
    Avatar was amazing….go see it!
    If you suck at something, you might not be that bad. And if you are, well, that’s what teachers are for! And good job auditioning…that’s the best way to get yourself out there.

  1281. And here’s a ping to everyone else……quit suggesting Kristen Stewart! I don’t want to offend anyone, but seriously, whoever plays Tally actually needs to know how to ACT!!!
    Kevron: Tilda Swinton is perfect……holy cow wish I thought of that! She would be sooooo good that playing Dr. Cable!!!
    I’m so behind on replying to posts; its already January 23rd and I just realized I posted a post for a post posted back in December (the Other Tally’s question about Avatar…..posted back in, oh I don’t know….DeCeMbEr!!!!)
    Ahaha c’est la vie, for me when I have a mom who doesn’t really like me having me-time on the computer, grr. 😛

  1282. Hey,
    I love your books and I will be one of those people who will watch your movies once they get published and I think that you should keep writing books like these. 🙂

  1283. I just found out that there was a movie and scott i just started reading the uglies series and i love it im on specials now so dont ruin it for me i dont care who palys who i think it would be good either way and i just saw a trailer and it looked pretty awesome. Cant wait love ya. THanks Scott

  1284. :] 😀 😀 : D: D: D what do you look for in tally’s appearnence? i would really really badly want to play her role in the movie :] i have studied her inside and out PLEASE! were will the aditions be held and CONGRATS! hope my book will be as successful as you psst: dont forgt to mention your fans when you win a trphoy or grammy award for you future film ;]

  1285. I have been waiting to see some mention of an Uglies movie for quite some time now. You have no idea how excited this makes me-possibly you do; regardless, I’m giddy and am anticipating any new posts from you.

  1287. alright, i must say that these books are like the best books ive ever read in my entire life. I can see this turning into a huge hit in theaters. im soo excited for this movie to come out even though it may not actually be turned into a movie. Although it would be dissapointing. I’ve never actually read a book that made me want to keep reading like these books, Once you start its like you cant even put the book down and when you do you just have this itchh to keep reading until the boook is done then you cant wait to go get the next one. I know this will be succesfull in the movies. And i really hope and wish that these movie producers decide to actually persue this. Even people who havent read the books will see this movie and just want to see it. its something everyone can relate to.

    Love. kaitlyn 🙂

  1288. i have been waiting for so long to see what is going to happened with these books. i my opinion it wold make a great movie, because it is so catching, and exciting. People would really love this movie. And i do agree that all the main characters have to be undiscovered that would make the movie more exciting. i love this books and i would love to be in it too…jijij

  1290. i can’t express how happy i am that this series may become a movie, but at the same time this could ruin the books, and how i see them from my point of view. in other words, please don’t hire actors because they’re well known, or because it will bring lots of fans to the movie, hire them because they are perfect for the part and they wont mess it up.

    also, scott, please don’t let the movie producers create the movie from their point of view. yours is the way the books were written, yours is the way the movie should be made. 🙂

  1291. I know tally is supposed to be in the uglies stage for this movie but i think who ever plays her should still be good looking i hate it when books are made into movies and the actors are ugly not to be rude or anything and i know they pick ugly actors to keep the “real” theme but this was preveusly a book and I know that books develop sort of like a movie in the brain and i personly imagine beutiful people when i think of the characters in the books i read. Also totally off subject if you like this series i bet you would like “the last book in the universe” I’m not sure who the author is but its great look it up!

  1292. the song crushcrushcrush by paramore should totally be on the movie in the david part! so excited!!

  1293. this is SOO excitingggg
    ahah and i wanna know about casting!!
    and even auditions?
    that would be SO awesome
    i love you!!

  1294. ok…this is wat the cast should be

    Shay: Dakota Fanning
    tally: Sarah Aldrich
    Dr. Cable: Angelina Jolie
    David: Taylor Lautner
    Zane: Alex Pettyfer

  1296. seth-
    I LOVE Julie Andrews (that’s who was in sound of music and tooth fairy (also mary poppins)) but she’s wayyyyyyyy too nice, even though she’d know just how to play the bad guy, she’d do amazingly, but when people watch her do Cable, everyone would be like “oh she did a great job, but I can only remember her as a nice person!” lol

  1299. I am definetly super excited about this. I have read the books many times over and have always wanted them to be turned into Movies this would be the movie of a lifetime that I would go to watch over and over if it came out. I have recommended it to all of my friends and they want it to be a movie as much as I do!!! Please consider doing it 🙂

  1300. Heyy i thinkk it would be totally awesome-making if there was another one i mean honestly it would be bogus if Tally-wa and Shay-la never saw each other again!!

  1301. These books are so special to me. I was kind of sad when i found out they were making a movie, because I thought they might ruin the books for me if it became the new twilight! I just have to be in the movie. I’ve never acted before but i can do a perfect shay!!

  1302. I think that Tilda Swinton is perfect for Doctor Cable just perfect. Thora Birch has a good face for Tally but she seems just too big chested for playing that role.

  1303. I don’t even know if Scott reads these anymore but if he does I have the perfect singer for his movies. Her name is Imogen Heap, formerly in the Frou Frou concept band. Check her out if you don’t know her already. She is addicting!!

  1304. Ping to the OtherTY heehee: By now you’ve seen avatar, so……was it not the most amazing thing EVER!?!?!?! Well so far, just wait until uglies hits the silver screen! AHH!
    Oh my zebras, so I’m going to winter formal today with my David/Zane! I’m so uber-bubbly right now, ahh being with him is simply happy-making! EEEEE! 😀
    I actually did a paper in an English Composition class I’m taking at Saddleback Community College in Mission Viejo about this guy, I had to describe him and stuff. I added a few personal things to it, so I changed his name to ‘Zane.’ I’m not kidding! Seriously, Zane was the first name to ping in my head!!!! it was soooooo cool! I just hope my teacher likes it (I got an A+ on a report/evaluation of an essay we had to read, hopefully I get something like that for the paper!!!).

  1305. Oh and another ping-la to the Other TY!
    Seriously, its great that you get yourself out there with auditions. Its the only way to open yourself up to acting. Seriously, its great to audition. It can solve stage fright pretty darn fast too!! lol

    And everyone: THANK YOU for reminding us all that actors from Twilight will only ruin the definition of masterpiece: Uglies. Sure, some of those actors are good (i.e. Taylor Lautner (best w/o a shirt in the rain *cough, cough*), the ppl who play Alice, Carlile, Esme, and Officer Swan lolz), but even so, we need NEW ppl to be in Uglies. For instance…me? That would be WAYYYYYYYY bUbBlY!!!!!!! ;D lol jk, whoever Scott decides should be in it will be perfect because hey, he DID write the books! hee hee!

  1306. OHHHHH!!! and one more post! look at the very bottom of this page, right in the middle, its hard to see because the background is dark and its in black, but there is a SMILEY FACE AT THE BOTTOM OF THE PAGE!!!!! WHOA!
    wow, am i ADD or what? Squirrel! XD

  1307. OK U NEED TO MAKE THIS A MOVIE!!!!!!!!!!! i am on specials and all of them are great!!!!!!!! i am INLOVE with these books and i tink they would make an amazing movie!! i would definatley go see it…maybe even more than once, and i have tons of friends who would go see it also.
    AND GUESS WHAT!!!!! i am writing a song about the uglies book!!!!!!! i already wrote 1 about specails and im also still working on one for pretties 🙂 and i can sing, im not famous no but evry1 sias i hav an amazing alto voice (a low gilrl note,but not like a guy of course) and i hav been working mu butt oof lately writing music for these books!!!!! (if only i could play an instrument :() but m ywhole piont is THIS BOOK NEEDS TO A MOVIE!!! it would be totally cool-making and soooo bubbly, and specials, would be so icy!!!!!!!!!!! PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE MAKE IT A MOVIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  1308. Someone said Angelina Jolie would make a great Dr. Cable & I totally agree! I think Zac Efron would make a good Peris…and, I think either Taylor Lautner or Shia LaBeouf would make a pretty good David… i’m excited! (:

  1309. well, i honestly have been M.I.A on this conversation revolving around making a movie out of Uglies (if you see the date!) but,the time I have spent on reading this website has been very intriguning and I would have never found it if I wouldnt have been on my Quest to find an emailing adress to scott westerfeld to tell him that I think he should make a movie out of the Uglies series……which I have just recently found out has been in the making since 2009!!!!!!!!well im just taking it all in so comment later on more!!!

  1310. Honestly I would love to see the Uglies series made into a movie/movies, but why is the last post from the author dated over half a year ago? Is he just as much in the dark as the rest of us about the questionability of this movie or is the disappointment of his fans too unbearable? I’d really enjoy actually knowing officially if there will be a production made from the books, they would be amazing to watch.

  1311. this is the best book ever and i am a great actor email me so i can be in the cast of the movie seriously but yes it has to be a movie

  1315. For the Uglies movie i think that the new pretties should have digital faces like what they did to voldemort’s face in the harry potter series and gollum in the lord of the rings, to maximize their beauty, take away all aspects of human flaws and making them all look monochromatic. As to not make a mockery of the book like Twilight did to the vampires *shudder* we don’t want a repeat of edward cullen.

  1316. I can’t wait to see what Zane looks like!!! He is my favorite book character of all time!!! I cried so hard when he died :'( I really hope they do make this book into a movie, it would be a good one!!!

  1317. I dunno who should be Dr. Cable. Someone who has aquiline features, hawk eyes, beautiful but scary. none of the people listed sound scary. I think sigourney weaver could work because she already scares me, lol. But youd need alot of make-up. i think that the pretties and specials need CGI to look like what they are in the book.

  1318. I hope the music isnt techno like they do to all the other sci fi movies (its 300 years in the future anyways). I think uglie can be “hot” because there were only 10 people in recorded history that were as hot as pretties. They should’nt look too different because the book says they look similar except for eye color and hair. Goodbye 🙂

  1320. pleasepleasepleasepleaseplease make the movie!
    the series are SO great and i bet the movie would make them even MORE famous than twilight!

  1321. I love these books, they are incredible, and i agree with a lot of the comments posted. The big question is, why is it taking so long for castings and scripts etc to all kick off? It’s worrying :\ i hope it does all work out. Let’s hope it doesn’t turn out to be a twilight 🙂

  1322. ATTTTEEENNNNNNTTIIIOOONNNN!!!!!!!!!!!!
    According to MTV.com, a production company called Screen Gems that usually does horror films just produced Dear John, and because of Dear John’s success, Screen Gems is, in fact, FAST-TRACKING the Uglies movie! It’s a TOP PRIORITY, and it is set to go into production LATER THIS YEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  1323. i belive just like twilight its gonna be mega famous and its gonna be team Smoke or team city something like that its gonna be a great hit

  1324. i am SO DOWN! if you need and extra. im here for ya… i would probly be a good ugly..

    not that im ugly.. but i have freckels.. and pretties are flawless.. My friend Katie would be an amazing pretty.. maybe even a special.. she is gorgeous.

    this NEEDS to be a movie.

  1326. okay, i know it’s 2010, but reading his again is super exiting! I would soooooooo love to see the movie! And I think the girl on the cover of Uglies should be the actress who plays tally, ’cause that’s what I imagined she would look like. And I absolutely love the books! they were the best ones i have ever read and i couldn’t stop once i started!!! I think that Jim Carrey would be an awesome person to play the Boss, and I also think that Johnny Depp should be in the mix some where, like as Davids dad or something. I also think that you should direct or co-direct the movie, ’cause then you can make exactly what you imagined it to be like and it won’t end up like Twilight or Eragon. Great books, and excuse my french, but crap movies. I am so exited even though the movies are indefinite. YAY!!! Long live the smoke!!!!

    -Nicola-

  1328. i really hope that the peaple in charge of the movie dont mess it up like they did to pearcy jackson and the lightning thef , not to be mean or any thing i just think this is to much of a good book to let go to waste i LOVE this book=]

  1329. I have enjoyed reading this series, and I am extremely excitted to see what the movie will be like! I hope they do not make the movie different then the book.

  1330. OMGGGGG!!!!!
    I am sooo happy they are making a movie!!!! Congrats Scott!!
    Cast:
    Dr. Cable-Nicole Kidman
    Tally- someone new
    Shay-someone new
    David- someone new
    Maddy-IDK
    Az-IDK
    If they cast Robert Pattinson, Taylor Laughtner, or Kristen Stewart I will literally kill myself.
    They should have new people!!!!!
    MOvies these days are getting boring…….
    I am sooooooo happyyyyy

  1331. OMG OMG OMG!
    I LOVE THE SERIES,
    THIS IS SO EXCITING I CANT WAIT,
    unknown actors would be best for this movie,
    i dont really want like the highschool musical cast or the twilight ppl showing up in there, that would wreck it..
    no affense to the actors in there, i love the movies,
    but i think it would be best with unknown actors/actresses.

  1334. omg omg omg this should so b a movie(s)!!! i luv the twilight series but if any of the cast members are in it im gonna b sooo mad. it would b totally bogus-making.

  1335. ok so pepole are saying that no twilligt people and i get that but on the other hand i think that robert pattinson would be a great zane because
    1. in the book zane is pale
    2. every time i think of zane thats who i see so ya

    and i think that taylor lautner would mke great andrew simpson smith!!
    so ya think that would be great if those two were those caracters!!

    love mir blur la!!

  1336. uuummm…. i was thinkng that the girl on the front cover of ugglies could pausibly play tally or maby demi lovato so i was just thinking that right now

    love mir blur la !!

  1338. I personally think for the uglies people you should not use actors or actresses. The whole major idea for the characters is to look like how they were born.Most movie actors or actresses have plastic surgerey to change the way they look.

  1339. IIIYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!
    AHHHH IM FREAKING OUT OMGOSH THANK YOU MTV.COM FOR HAVING THAT UPDATE!!!! THIS IS SOOOOOOO BUBBLY-MAKING!!!! THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU I REALLY NEEDED THIS BECAUSE THIS WEEK HAS SUCKED FOR ME SO NOW IM HAPPIER YAY!!!!!!!! 😀

  1340. ok. First of all how do you even bring twilight into Uglies?! They are not related in any sort of way and i just think you did this to start more stupid ” twilight wars”. If you dont like the books, that’s your opinion, you dont have to ruin it for everyone.Keep it to yourselve because twilight fans dont want to hear you whining about a book you HAVENT read. and Even if you did, fine, you read it, didnt like it, KEEP IT TO YOURSELF! no one cares. I think stephanie’s writing isnt bad.. I like the twilight series.. But I’m not opinionated. i understand why people who havent read them wouldnt like them. But to all of you that have and don’t like it, then thank you for giving it a chance and not calling a book horrible if you havent read it. keep twilight out of uglies. ok. different books. why does suddenly everything have to be about twilight? GET OVER IT.

  1341. Ping @ Megan. THANKYOU. everyones a little too obsessive over twilight.
    and the actors should def. stay out of the uglies.

  1342. I heard that the movie will come out in 2011!!!
    IM SO SIKED
    i really luv the book
    but i’ve only read uglies/pretties/and half of the specials/and a little of the Extras
    Tally get so many surgeries gosh…
    But it was kinda funny that shay became a pretty before Tally, I personally thought
    that Tally should have been a pretty first
    But anyway see you at the movies!
    ~Sumone you probally dont know

  1343. I wanna see a trailer. I really really wanna see a trailer. People are saying that it comes out in 2011 and I’ll believe that once I see a trailer. [PS I wanna see a trailer]

  1344. Having a famous actor for Dr. Cable is the perfect idea.

    Tilda Swinton would be great.
    But as for Tally and Shay, well they are both “nobodies” In the book so they should be nobodies in the movie. It would add something more to the movie that people won’t expect.

  1345. I think that Tilda Swinton would be great for Dr. Cable. Im so excited!!!!! I can’t wait for the movie. Scott you are the best writer!!!!!!!

  1346. You should use me as Shay! She seems just like me. I’m African-American, fourteen years old, and I am fascinated with the books!!!

  1347. Omg… totally famous-making!!!

    I can’t wait this movie will be amazing (not bogus)!!!

    Rosario Dawson would be perfect for Dr. Cable Scott-la… completely icy, she was awesome in eagle eye, and she kinda looks and reminds me of Dr. Cable

  1348. People, if anyone makes another comment about casting actors from twilight or if you compare twilight with Uglies again, im gonna scream and that won’t be pretty.
    READ AND OBEY THE MIGHTY MEGAN!!!!! SHE SPEAKS TRUTH!!! NOW EVERYONE SHUT UP! 🙂
    <3 you all!!
    Tally (Savannah L.)

  1349. honestly, the movie would be A W E S O M E !
    I have read the book over a million times and i’m deeply interested in seeing a movie based on the book 🙂 hope to see it out soon!! <33 july

  1350. This movie would be amaazing! I’m not sure why, but I think Angelina Jolie would be awesome for Dr. Cable. i dunno, maybe it’s just me. =P soo excited- I really want to see a trailer!

    ♥Melly

  1351. My daughter introduced me to the Uglies series, and I really enjoyed all four of them. Mr. Westerfeld, I’ve always thought that the purpose of turning the teenagers pretty was specifically to see whom could think their way out of it. Those that did would have extended breeding privileges, sort of a passive eugenics.

  1352. Hi 🙂
    I really wanna see a movie for this.
    And Im glad everyone stopped talking about twilight..
    Looks like my speech up there.. #1340…
    Worked 🙂 THANK YOU. too. 🙂
    @ Rosie- wa, Im glad you liked it 🙂 haha

  1353. you can not beleive how excited i am for this, if it becomes a movie i will definitely be first in line to see it

  1354. I read all triolgy for Uglies, and they were awesome! It’s like a prediction of what our world might look like in the future. I hated Tally for some unknown reason, probably because of some of the choice’s she made. I agree, I want David, Tally, Shay, and Zane to be unknown actors/atresses.

  1355. I’ve wanted the Uglies trilogy to become a movie since I started to read the first book! I always thought of how it would look in a movie when Tally and Shay are riding on hoverboards, or when the fireworks coming from the mansions in New Pretty Town. I also agree that Tally, Shay, David, Zane, etc. should be unknown actors. I can kind of see Meryl Streep as Dr. Cable.

  1356. Meryl Streep?
    I think she is too old.
    I think that Angelina Jolie should do it.
    That’s how I imagined Dr. Cable.
    :)) Just Me.. 🙂 Anyone else think so?
    And as for Zane.. I always imagined him to kinda look like..
    Don’t hate me… Robert Pattinson..
    Maybe not him, For the movie, But someone that looks like him..
    And how in the world are you gonna make the buildings jump?
    And the hoverboards?!
    Good luck! 🙂
    I can’t WAIT to see this movie 🙂

  1357. I really like the Uglies books, like a lot! 🙂 Not only do I like the story line and all that. They make me, bubbly. What I mean is that it makes me see the world and worry about what we are doing to the world. It makes me want to be more in touch with nature and to help save what nature we have left. On a smaller note, it personally effects me too. It makes me feel happy with myself, with how I look, and thankful I can be me.

    So thank you Scott for helping me remove my own “lesions” so to speak; and to see the world through ugly eyes.

    sarah-wa

  1358. hey I am new to the forum but am so excited that there is going to be a movie about my favorite book series in the whole wide world. i have read every Uglies book and loved them but one thing I want to send a ping to Scott Westerfeld right another book about Tally Youngblood I bet everyone would love it 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂

  1359. If you’ve seen my other post, (1354), I loved the book! Personally, I think I would be great for Tally. I have the unusally pale skin, and blonde hair. When I read in my bedroom, I’d read the character’s lines just how I think they would say them. Right now, I’m reading extras! It’s really, really interesting.

  1360. I think they should cast regular kids for Tally and Shay. I know if I got a chance to be one of them it would be amazing I personally think I would be awesome for Tally Youngblood. Also if you have seen my last post (1358) you will see I sent a ping to Scott about writing another book about Tally Youngblood. I think this would be awesome. Does anyone agree?

    emmy-wa

  1361. Ok i really hope they make the movie! and i hope they put it into a series like have The Ugllies movie then the Pretties Movie and Then the Specials cuz i loveeee it when they do that! YAY I LOVE SCOTT WESTERFIELD ur one of the most awesomest Auther eva

  1362. i cant wait for the movie!!!!! also scott please write another book!!!!!!or i might die!!!!! i think you should get someone who really looks like tally and everyone else for the movie especially dr. cable and the specials!!!!
    well please write another book soon!!!!!!!!!

  1363. its 2010 already and there isnt a movie yet what happened? ive been seeing”previews” all day

  1364. if u saw my last post(1363) im not really patient so i think i would be a good tally or shay. and by the way for dr.cable it should be angelina jolie and for zane it should be zack efron oh yea and david it should be david archeleuta cuz when i was reading i pictured him with fish lips and no offesise to david but he has fish lips so he should play that anyone agreeee

  1365. hello ping-las!!! 😀

    haha i really felt like saying that…..heehee.

    kay so im going to try to put things straight here….

    Tally, Shay, David, Zane and every one else except for Dr. Cable needs to be unknown actors that are making their debut. with new actors and actresses, the general public will enjoy the movie more because these are newbies, and aren’t already known for that one movie they were in. when they are newbies, its easier to connect with them.

    Dr. Cable is still being voted on, but i personally say NO to Angelina Jolie, no offense to her but her lips are wayyyy to bogusly big to be following the Pretty Board rules, or the Special Circumstances rules, y’know? yeah, her lips are WAYYYYY too puffy.

    we need Dr. Cable to be someone who isn’t considered sexy but instead considered tough, icy-cold, and who has a piercing stare/glare that doesn’t have poofy lips covering the icy-ness in her eyes. big lips = big distraction.

    also, Tally has brown hair not blonde (sorry people) but wigs can be used. however, wigs are uncomfortable and hard to deal with most of the time (trust me ive worn wigs a LOT for a bunch of shows ive been in…they are SOOOOOOO bogus!!) and they can get pretty expensive.
    and people just remember to not be uber disappointed and/or angry if everything doesnt turn out how you wanted it to…unfortunately, we can’t all direct the film….

    and hey take a look at my blog site http://savannahlake.webs.com…or things will get ugly 🙂

    Tally Youngblood

  1367. I agree all the actors should be unknown i really can’t wait for the movie to come out. :):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):)::):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):) sorry I am just so excited

  1368. i was literally JUST talking about this the other day with my fellow uglies fan (who isnt as big as me since im on my 6th time reading it)

    I’m actually an aspiring artist, who would love more than ANYTHING IN THE WORLD to write a song, or even maybe act in this movie, (WHEN and not if but WHEN it happens) since im 16 and am trained in musical theatre and acting and singing and blah blah blah. :]

    if this series became movies im not sure what i’d do. but it would most likely be a minute and second count down. but of course it would be a dream come true to actually BE IN IT.

    i live, breathe, eat, sleep, dream, and ASPIRE for a role that i could play as good as tally–living and waiting for a chance to be what i was meant to be. not to mention being manipulated by those in authority -_-… and can’t forget getting caught up in someone who my best friend is preoccupied with! HAHA! no… but yeah XD

    i really really would like to be considered for anything… because, well we can’t all have what we want, unfortunately “/ but being able to say that i tried, and got as far as i did, would be an amazing experience. i’ll be the first in line to see it at the movie if i dont get far! or get anywhere XD thanks mucho

    love, stacey “stakira” lopez

  1370. If you have seen my last post (1367) you can see i am super excited for the movie but I can’t help but wondering who will be paris I have tried thinking who would be good at playing him but I then was thinking why not have him be an unknown actor then a regular people like us could have chance

  1372. Actually, the other day I said to my sister (an epic Zane-lover and Cutters/Shay-hater — bogus, huh?) how cool it would be if these books were movies… cool, huh? It would be so happy-making!

  1375. I’m getting carried away, here but… you know the annoying Twilight teams everyone argues about? I made teams like that for the Uglies trilogy:
    Team Tally-wa (duh)
    Team Shay-la (the best)
    Team Zane-la (no comment)
    Team David (lol his name kind of stands out without the Crim name)

    bubbly, huh?

    *SPOILER-ISH (shouldn’t be a problem; you read Specials, right?*

    Who else cried when Zane died? I practically bawled my eyes out!

  1376. Hey, Alex, (1294) I agree with Alex Pettyfer for Zane, Taylor Lautner for David and Dakota Fanning for Shay! But the other two… umm… a little bogus…

  1378. Okay,i personaly could not put the book down. i sat in my room for hours and just read that book, it would make my world and im sure many other kid’s worlds if this book bcame a movie, our minds only creat visual images to a certain point. and by making a movie we could see it all. i belive it would be a great money making movie, possibly more than alot of popular movies. i loved the books, it became a usual part of my day to just sit down and admirar the book, i ill be certainly devestated if it doesnt become a movie but thanks scott anyways fr creating an amazing book with love, action, and true meanings behind the word beauty. you truley changed my life.

  1379. Thanks Shay’s biggest fan, and Sydeny I think you should consider the thought that a lot of books made in to movies are not as good as the books, but this one could be different you never know. David luver you are crazy not like shay she is awesome 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂

  1380. OHHHHHHH! I just had an idea why doesn’t make an appearance in the movie that would be so happy-making.

    Does anyone really love all the cool funny words scott uses in the books : bogus, bubbleheads, bubbly, crims, crumblies, crumblville, cutters, Extras, face ranks, fasion missing, flash tattoos, hoverboards, hovercams, icy, kickers,lifter rigs, littlies, manga-heads, mind-rain, nanos, pings, Pretties, reputation bombers, rusties, smart matter, the smoke, smokies, sneak suits, spagbol, Specials, surge-monkeys, Uglies, new pretty town, and uglyville.

    aren’t they awesome 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂

  1381. woops, I make so many mistakes while typing I want Scott to make the apperence in the movie and david luver you are crazy NOT to love shay

  1382. ping to emmy-wa: i dont like shay beacause i dont like cutters and i basicly just read the chapter Ritual!

  1384. ping to Bella-wa (1269): well.. actually the teams are a good idea and it’s totally bubbly that i’m not the only one that thought of them. however, in my opinion, there is also a Team Shay and Team Tally…

    ping to Team David!!! (1212): sure you don’t like Zane and all, but do you have to be so MEAN? it’s totally bogus!

    … Hi, ping-la… lol

  1387. ping to udzir (430): i half agree… Shay is so awesome, and i agree, i probably wouldnt have forgiven Tally either in that position… but, do you have to hate Tally so BOGUSLY much?

  1388. WHO HASNT FINISHED PRETTIES YET?!?!?!?! oh and by the way…WHY DO YOU LIKE SHAY…. i dont understand… i havent finished pretties yet…

  1389. Shay was my favorite all the way since the roller coaster incident… Cutters rock!!! Also, everyone who reads this, tell me what team you’re on!

    BAN THE SPAGBOL! ~Shay’s Biggest Fan out.

  1391. this movie should be the best movie in the history of movies… until the next one, of course!

  1393. ping-la to Sydney: you just said what i was trying to say, but i couldnt put it into words…

  1395. Well… one more post…
    Top Ten Reasons Why Shay-la Pwns
    10. She always FORGIVES Tally
    9.She is responsible
    8.She is kinda weird and creepy
    7.She is always right
    6.She doesn’t complain (actually as a pretty, she does, but that’s not HER fault…
    5.She ran away to the Smoke first
    4.Shes’s able to find fault with Tally
    3.She was Special first
    2.She doesn’t just do what everyone else is doing
    1.One word. Cutters.

    Shay’s Biggest Fan out.

  1396. ok. i lied. last post now…

    You think Tally woulld have asked BEFORE she knocked out the drivers, but there’s Tally for you…
    ~Shay, EXTRAS

  1397. I am on Shay or David’s team. I didnt like Tally that much because she is a little selffish.

  1406. well 1 last post…………..

    GO DAVID GO DAVID!

    Peris-la is cool!

    im weird, and im out!

  1409. i lied im still not out! emmy-wa,:i respect shay and all but… i dont likey the cutters thing! i might be her 3rd biggest fan(theres allready a biggest fan and 2nd biggest fan)once i read speicals!(im only on the chapter Holy Day in Pretties…)

  1411. another list…
    Top Five Best (my opinion) Characters!
    5.Fausto
    4.Tally
    3.Zane
    2.David
    1.Shay

    yup, im pretty darn predictable…

  1416. i dont get it………
    well,enywho, hi,

    Ping To emmy-wa:I have to agree,Shay is pretty cool but….Cutters scare me!and i like zane and david better…But dont worry;I dont hate Shay,I just dont like her very much!:p

  1419. ping to The OTHER Tally Youngblood: rofl screm — and you’re right…………………….. saying SpagBol multiple times DOES make it sound worse… spagbolspagbolspagbolspagbol…

  1424. Ping to Alex(1294):i think that dakota fanning could do for shay,as long as
    she acts good.and tally-no way! sarah aldrich looks nothing like her!
    dr.cable-angelina-no-no! david might work as tailor though…
    but zane, alex pettyfer *shakes head*!

  1429. well…… David luver….. i was only agreeing because their faces looked kinda right………….

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  1452. well… time for this…

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    … whew…… it will be so bogus if this gets messed up: the Shay to end all Shays!

  1455. this posting system thing is all bogus…. i worked for SEVEN OR MORE MINUTES on that!!!!

  1456. ping to everybody: tell me your favorite character! mine kinda goes without saying…… i wont make any rude rude comments — unless its Andrew Simpson Smith – lol his initials…….. also tell me your team if your favorite isnt one of them!

  1458. i’ll make the Shay to end all Shays work…
    i just need to turn the spaces into .s…

    ……SHAYSHAYSHAY
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    well……. this definitely proves the point of my name……

  1462. Wow there is a lot of comments on here. But really? They need to make these books into movies. They could be a bigger deal then Twlight, which I know it would be because everybody in these books are real unlike the vampires in Twilight.

    Emily-wa

  1463. PING TO SHAY’S BIGGEST FAN:i like david…but its hard to say if im on team Zane or team David….i also like tally….shay’s cool….idk wat team im on!

  1472. it DOES prove the point of my name, right? and in a way, it reminds me of Spencer’s sculptures (lol and his last name is Shay, the irony) on iCarly

  1474. to all the Tallys out there: SpagBol, SpagBol, SpagBol, SpagBol, SpagBol, SpagBol, SpagBol, SpagBol, SpagBol, and I could even write a song about SpagBol if i wasnt so lazy…

    my inner Tally (everyone has one): uurrrrrrrrrrrgghhhhh… *facepalm*

  1475. my top 10 fav characters
    10.Sol
    9.Maddy
    8.Sussy
    7.Fausto
    6.Peris
    5.Shay
    4.Croy
    3.Tally
    2.Zane
    1.David

  1478. ping to Sarah-la: i know. totally sad-making. Shat doesnt have a revealed last name… on that note, Tally’s actually the only one who HAS a last name…

  1480. hmmmm…. alone again… well… in that case… (and any other case, for that matter) … SHAY PWNS!!!

  1483. things they NEED in the movie:
    1. Shay’s sloppy note
    2. The piggy mask
    3. Peris: “oh dear, wasnt this party white tie?” (its like im the only one who remembers how funny that line was)
    4. David’s line, “What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful.”
    5. The cat-vomit pink sky
    6. The pretty-generating technology
    7. The roller coaster
    8. When Shay teaches Tally how to hoverboard
    9. The white weeds
    10. The helicopter and the firestorm
    11. “We dont want to hurt you, but we will if we have to.”
    12. Enough SpagBol for 3 SpagBols a day for… 2 weeks…
    13. When Tally escapes without shoes
    14. When the Smokies leaves shoes for her…

    Yup, couldnt have the movie without those…

  1489. “Hi, ping-la…”
    Of course, the ping never answered. But Tally just liked to be polite.

    ROFL at that part

  1490. ping-la to The OTHER Tally Youngblood (889): Yeah, Pokemon are awesome! But how is that relevant…? Also, you forgot to mention the awesomeness of Shaymins…

    yay! Shaymin has Shay in it!!!

    ~Shay’s Biggest Fan out (you hope, at least…)

  1498. OMG!
    ping to jiji-la(1330):Eeek! i would just FREAK if they used Kristen Robert or
    Tailor! THAT WOULD BE THE WORST THING EVER! THERE THE TWILIGHT
    FREAK ACTORS!ohmyohmyohmy….i didnt even realize that before…

  1499. Kristen Stewart is Bella! EEEK!
    TAILOR LAUTNER IS JACOB! thats scary!
    and!………..
    THE SCARIEST ONE *whispers* EDWARD CULLEN
    I HATE TWILIGHT!

  1500. ping to Ant-la(160):*dies*ANT-LA WAT IS WRONG WITH U?!?!?
    U WANT ROBERT-edward cullen-AS ZANE?!? UR SCARY,SICKAND TWISTED!

  1501. HERES A CAST:

    Dr Cable-Cate blanchett
    Tally-someone unknown
    shay-someone unknown
    maddy-lindsey lohan
    az-i dont know
    croy-sum1 unknown
    david-shane west

  1502. my cast:
    Dr. Cable – Cate Blanchett
    Tally – someone new (right age)
    Shay – someone new (right age, REALLY good at acting)
    David – dunno, someone fairly famous (right age)
    Croy – somone unknown
    Maddy – DEFINITELY Lindsay Lohan
    Az – idk
    Peris – someone gorgeous and unknown
    Smaller parts – unknown or not well-known

  1506. well… it seems either ive alienated every fan in the world, or youre all sleeping, which makes no sense, cuz its only 4:30 where i live… but either way…….. this is my last post today…….

    What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful.
    ~ David

    Keep challenging the gods…
    ~ Andrew Simpson Smith

    You see, freedom has a way of destroying things.
    ~ Tally Youngblood

    Dont eat SpagBol if you can avoid it….
    ~Me

    ~Shay’s Biggest Fan out

  1510. I think that it will make a great movie and if/when it comes out i’ll defiantly go see it 🙂

  1511. omg omg omg! A possability of a movie…wow i’m wordless luv it! I just hope they stick to the book and don’t change it much alot of movie’s based on books get messed up beacuse the directors change it. I really hope that doesn’t happen with Uglies. I STILL CAN’T WAIT! OMG!

  1512. Hia!
    😀 Hello 😀

    I luv the series! its so awesum!

    (im on the Chapter Holy Day in Pretties though…)

  1514. u no wat?
    i would be so mad if these lines wernt in the movie:
    theres a piggy on the loose!
    oh dear…i thought this party was white tie…
    and we dont want to hurt u but we will if we have to

    lol,ill be back…

    ~DAVID LUVER OUT~

  1516. But lol im back now!
    i like David!(a no brainer)
    DUHHHHH!
    Croy-la is cool to,hes great and so is Zane….
    I LIKE BOYS!

  1518. D! A! V! I! D!
    WHATUS DAT SPELL DAVID!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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  1519. LOL!
    i heart david people,just to let u no….
    BUT U NO WHO SHOULD BE HIM RIGHT?
    I DONT NO!
    *screams and falls to the ground dead*
    I LUUUUUUV DAVIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIID!!!
    …he and zane are awesum…
    backround voice:ok we r takin u to the men tal hospital again…~
    PINK PONYS!

  1520. HEY! GUESS WHAT! I’M NOT REALLY SUPPOSED TO BE ON HERE RIGHT NOW, BUT, *clears throat* sorry about the yelling, but I really have to say this:

    David + Tally = Crushcrushcrush by Paramore!

    Now, this is my only post today, so I’ll say this too:

    What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful.
    ~David

    GOODBYE PING-LAS!
    ~Shay’s Biggest Fan out~

  1521. lol…
    I Luv Davi-
    Voice:DONT MAKE ME TAKE U TO THE MENTAL HOSPITAL~

    Sorry about that one…

  1522. hey….
    David is awesum and if u agree then ping me!
    Lol
    i am awesumness!
    ~ill be back!~
    ~OUT!~

  1524. wow… not long i was gone!
    LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
    hehe…
    muse would be awe sum for da movie!
    Muse Music…
    LOLOLOLOL

  1529. lol…
    ~IF U MAKE A PRETTIES MOVIE THESE THINGS ARE NEEDED~
    -Tally’s note to herself that Shay wrote
    -Zane’s gold eyes
    -Cutters(no matter how scary it is-im watchin it!)
    -Spray-on skin! LOL creepy…
    -Zane-la’s headaches
    -Interface cuffs (creepy…)
    -The crusher (Eeeeek!)

  1530. AND IN THE UGLIES MOVIE NEAR THE END U NEED TO PUT PRETTY SHAY WRITING TALLY’S NOTE TO HER SELF!
    ok,do u get it?….
    *nods*
    *weak-almost smile*
    🙂

  1531. OK, ill admit it-im annoying…
    BUT I DONT CARE!
    the movie is going to be spectacular!
    Ice Cream Is Cool!
    So is David…
    DAVID!
    DAviD
    dAvId

  1535. Hey…
    IM BACK
    LOLOLOL
    HIA!
    LOL!
    Mmmmmm….
    ICE CREAM!
    NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
    I JUST LEARNED;DAVID LIKES ICE CREAM MORE THAN MEEEEEEEEEEEE!
    VOICE:IM I TAKIN U TO THE MENTAL HOSPITAL AGAIN GIRL?

  1536. …….
    LOL!
    *grins maniacally*
    MENTAL HOSPITAL!
    YAY!
    YAY…
    umm…
    yay?
    im weird…
    why did i say ‘yay’?

  1537. David is awesum….
    Zane is awesum!….
    Shay… is just a little awesum…
    Tally is cool,well,Who Doesnt Like Main Characters?

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  1547. my 49 minions!
    im so happy!
    I Have Forty-Nine Minions!
    *smile*
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  1548. PING-LA TO SHAY’S BIGGEST FAN:how many minions do u have?
    i have 49!
    ur frend,David luver…

  1549. i have 49 minions,and 6$s!(see post #1544 for 48 of my minions and post #1546 for the last 1 of my minions,and the 6$s… well,i have no proof!)

  1555. Mmmm……
    IM EATIN COOKIES!
    YUMMM
    YUMMM
    YUMMM
    YUM-MMM!
    IM EATIN COOKIES!
    YUMMMM….
    ok,u get it…..

  1556. lolololololololol……
    LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL!
    IM #2!
    DAVID IS #1!
    PERIS IS….ummm cool?

  1558. PEOPLE!
    post 1552 was me!
    i was on Shay’s Biggest Fan’s Computer so,yeah,the name was in there already so,that post(1552)was me…
    I AM SORRY IF I CONFUSED U!

  1560. well….HEY!yesterday wasnt the 19th,today is the 19th,yesterday was 18th!
    AND ITS 12:39 HERE!
    STUPID TIME THING!
    i mean…
    STUPID AUSTRALIAN TIME!

  1562. Hi haven’t been on for a while and am on team Tally. GO TALLY !!!!!!!!

    My Cast

    Tally: Abigail Breslin

    Shay: someone new

    Zane: Adam Lampert (awesome singer)

    Peris: Zach Efron

    Maddy: Lynsey Lohan

    Az: someone famous

    David: unknown actor (really cute)

  1563. ok..um.. no to abigail breslin Adam LAMBERT notlamp… nd NOOOOO to lindsey lohan. she is adruggy, an tallyis the bomb.com. soyeah. dontbe hatin. sippinthat haterade ovathere. hahaha

  1564. I love David! He is so kool! Shay is like also cool too. I’m a combonation of both of them!!!!

  1565. wow…….holy cow david luver…..PLEASE stop it with the random posts! im sorry, but they are just plain annoying sorry :\

    and hey ppl! check out my blog! click on my name and it should take you right there! 🙂

    hm…i think i already told you to go on my site…oh well. 🙂

    Tally Youngblood

  1566. okay. im not 4 sure but i think i have posted this be4.
    you should use crushcrushcrush (paramore)4 uglies in the scene where she is backtracking to the city. Also, you should use the song thats what u get (paramore) 4 maybe pretties….this series is one of the best 4 ever, but so depressing and tragic….but i love the sci fi and feel….hope my imagination is like the movie!! oh and please cast young people….not nicole kidman….natile portman is somewat eligilbe but might have trouble pulling it off. 🙂 and im expected good effects…dont disapoiint!! 🙂

  1569. Okay, there were so many comments on this page I don’t know if someone wrote this or not but, I don’t think anyone like Robert Pattinson or, those kind of actors would be good in this movie. I like the idea of unknown actors and one famous actor for Dr. Cable. I would love to be an actor in this movie. 😛 When I’m older I would like to be an actor (I’m 16. :D) I love this series so far. (I’m on Pretties, almost done) I think the movie would be absolutely wonderful if made. I’m thinking of making a comic about Uglies and Pretties, etc. I want to at least try, if you don’t mind. 😛 I wouldn’t be selling it. That’s all I have to say. 🙂

  1570. I reallly hope that there is a movie because these books are my favorite books ever!!!! Well the first two are my favorite books cuz im in the middle of Specials and I think Specials is really good so far!! I reallly like the cast ideas!!

  1572. Hi.. Um.. I don’t hate twilight 🙂
    Please don’t be a meanie David Luver..
    Please and thankssss,
    Me! 🙂 [Megan!]

  1573. For the Lindsay Lohan as Maddy.. Isn’t Maddy supposed to be a little older.. I thought she was David’s mom? Just my opinion. I feel all alone. Someone talk to me.. Ha ha

  1574. megan,sorry about hating twilight,i havent even read it,
    i was such a meanie there i agree…:(
    But my friend read it…SHE HATED THE ENDING!
    but sorry…

  1593. OK really, you dont need to post 300 times a day David Luver, no offence. But i saw at least 500 blogs with your name on it!

  1596. um… david lover! please stop posting everything you do its crazy you post like 20 things a day do you ever get off your computer! who agrees with me!!! im sure even david is getting tired of posting things every 5min!!!! but any way, iv now read the series 3 times!!!!! including extras!!!!

  1597. ok david lover has more than half the page with his name on it!!!!!
    if you really love david then you shouldnt post for at least 3 weeeks cause he would not aprove of wasting all of your time on the computer!!!!!

  1598. omg soo happy, i have been wanting this to be a movie for such a long time i hope it comes through. if not i will make a little webshow for it 😀

  1599. yes james u should make a little webshow for it not that i would have time to do anything like that but it would be fun to watch also thank u david lover for not posting for a while!!!!!

  1600. ya i agreee with allie that would make an awesome webshow and also david lover that did get kinda annoying but it was also really funny so u should still post but only every 30 min

  1601. hey um im new to this and i really dont get it but i like to read all the posts especially the one by the david lover guy he is really funny also that allie is funny sometimes she is nice and sometimes she is not but anyway keep posting cause its awesome oh and i need advice for my friend we tryed everything! even kicking him! and yes whit if you ever get on this ITS U!!!! and the boy is nate and whitney needs to laugh!!! i mean u still got ur bffs just not nate welll u did but then ziary well any way i shouldnt post everything about ur life on here!!! oh and since miranda moved u dont have one of ur bffs but u got lots more!!! oh and this is to u nate!!!if u ever make one of my bfffs cry like that again ill go get miranda and u know how that will end up!!! and jonny cant save u from a girl squad!!! any way help me someone please!!!

  1602. hey everyone sorry i havent posted in a while just cause some people think im mean but so what i am who i want to be and if i want to post everything i will so gosh get over it people!!! oh but the people that think im funny keep thinking that cause theres more where that comes from oh ya and now im out!!!oh and now ill go eat another muffin!!!

  1604. YO PEOPLE! i haven’t been on for a while! i wouldn’t have come on today, either, but…. i just had to spread around some “happiness” and remind you of how awesome Shay is! –oh, yeah and save you from my evil little sister David luver and her minions ( 😀 s ) So, yeah…. now that thats over, i gotta start shipping a NEW couple!

    Tally + Fausto!

    Weird, huh? oh, well…

    “Of course a hoverboard! What is it with those things and miscreants?
    ~ Dr. Cable

    STAY ICY AND AVOID SPAGBOL!

    LONG LIVE SHAY!

    ~Shay’s Biggest Fan OUT!!!~

  1607. READ THE ABOVE COMMENTS!
    Yes. Shay’s Biggest Fan IS my sister,and, imma girl!
    READ THE ABOVE COMMENTS!
    i LUV David!
    YES.
    YES.
    YES.
    ttyl
    🙂

  1608. IM David luver! NOT david lover!
    if u see sum1 named david lover its not me!
    OK?
    OK?
    OK?
    OK?
    OK?

  1609. David luver (Me)
    is a girl…
    Im not sure about david lover
    Im David luver
    Not david lover
    GET IT?
    …………………………………….
    i dont care if this is mean, but I DONT WANT TO SEE ME BEING CALLED
    ‘david lover’ EVER AGAIN!

  1611. Comments are stamped with Australian Eastern Standard Time
    LOL!
    LOL ppl!
    Im me again!
    BLAHBLEWOGIKLERAYGFDIR!
    Look this up in the dictionary…. you’ll find nothing….
    BUT PLZ COPY/PASTE THAT WORD IF U LIKE IT AND/OR FEEL LIKE SAYING A RANDOM NONSENSEICAL WORD!

  1617. allie(1598) I am not “david lover” or whatever u called me! im David luver.
    a ‘u’ not an ‘o’! and a Capital ‘D’ too!
    i am sorry if i am being mean….
    i just want u guys to call me by ‘David luver’
    SRY!

  1618. BLAHBLEWOGIKLERAYGFDIR!
    Look this up in the dictionary…. you’ll find nothing….
    BUT PLZ COPY/PASTE THAT WORD IF U LIKE IT AND/OR FEEL LIKE SAYING A RANDOM NONSENSEICAL WORD!
    SRY! its copy/paste day 4 me!

  1620. Tally + Fausto!
    thats me and Shay’s Biggest Fan’s couple we made up!
    YAY!
    But david is still better with tally

  1621. im only on Pretties still….
    but I have Heard ALOT of spoilers!
    Tally and Fausto-Special+Cutters
    Zane dies… 🙁
    inhumans are real ppl(i didnt even kno they existed)
    Frizz+Aya
    cutters still go on…

  1629. ……….
    WEEEEEEE!
    IMMA FUN/WEIRD PERSON!
    yes.yes. i DID just call myself weird,but…….It comes from my dad’s side…

  1636. I think the character of Tally should have sandy-blonde coloured hair and that shay should have dark brown hair and david a medium brown. They shoudn’t wear makeup and not look completely ugly. and yes the actors should be unknown. I would love to act as shay or someone in the background. Please say when auditions come ’cause i’m looking forward to it.

  1637. Aleisha-la i agree no makeup, would make it look better, and they cant be actully uglie people. I cant wait for the movie. I would love to be in the movie, who wouldnt. I want to know when auditions are.

  1645. wait……………
    UGLIES IS AWESUM
    PRETTIES IS BETTER
    SPECIALS……….havent read it yet……
    i havent been reading………

  1647. …………………………………………………………………..
    MY GUINEA PIG IZ GONNA RULE THE WORLD WITH ME AND SODA ROCKS!
    MUAHA HA HA HA HAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAA *cough cough*

  1648. well
    i do have 1 more thing to say…..
    AHHHHGH! STUPID WALL! WHY CANT I WALK THROUGH U!?
    LET ME WALK THROUGH U STUPID WALL! CMON! DONT BE A STUBBORN WALL,Wait….ILL GET A RUNNING START AND…54321…..OWWOWOWWW!
    stupid brick wall……*mutters bad language*

  1651. BLAHBLEWOGIKLERAYGFDIR!
    IM BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACK!(to sum ppl thats an ‘OH NO!’ but u should be
    like all ‘YAY!’ and stuff….)

  1652. David Luver and I will rule the world! (with her gerbil thingy) i think i already told you guys this…

  1654. ok i kinda agree with allie and david luver u shouldnt be so mean bout ur name cause does it really matter?

  1655. hey whats up!!!! David luver you make me laugh so hard!!!! i finally figuured out how to work this thing its awesome!!!

  1656. makenzie you shouldnt be rude and allie u shouldnt be rude either and lacy bug your funny too i mean thanks for thinkin im funny and all but were u talking to me?

  1658. So excited about this. One of my all time favorite book series and I think it would do great as a series of movies as well =)
    Ever since I read the series, I’ve wanted to see it on the big screen. It’s such a great series. Very amazing. Very movie-worthy. I’m super excited about this.

  1659. Oh please for the love of God pick someone INCREDIBLY attractive for Dr. Cable. I have the total hots for her. I don’t care if she’s an evil bitch she’s BANGIN’.

    Dr. Cable was like the only reason I kept reading the books.

    Sexy, evil, powerful, intelligent –> Ideal hottie for me.

    I’d actually prefer someone unknown but also ridiculously gorgeous for Dr. Cable. Seriously, there’s just something sexy about the “I’M A DOCTOR BUT I’M EVIL AND KINDA YOUNG AND HOT.”

    Wow. Can you tell I’m a fan?

  1660. uh…..david luver….we are writing on this wall because we’re all HUGE fans of Uglies too, but we cant constantly be on this website because we have lives to live. sorry that sounded bogusly rude, but honestly, please keep the spaztic commentary to a minimum, thanks, love you tho! 🙂

    yeah, im not so pretty w/o makeup (and im not so sure if im all that pretty WITH makeup) so i am going to be Tally. not “i want to be Tally” or “i wish to be Tally”……….i WILL be Tally! 🙂 <3 muahahahahaha 😀

  1661. Ok… Waka Waka, you kinda freak me out……. (hids behind old man who is waving a cane argrily at you). Stay away…. or he’ll hit you

  1662. omg this is exciting!!!!! im really young and short…..maybe i cud be a littlie! yay! but seriously do not do pretty actors/actresses because it is uglies right? i agree with every1 else. do unknown people. o and heavy on the action and do not forget the way they speak (happy-making, bubbly, icy, e.t.c) well i’ve had my say so ya. scott rocks~! ooo i wonder how specials will look like and pretties, oh so exciting i cant contain myself. k bye~!

  1663. sry.
    i havnt been on for sooo long now….
    and whos DaVid LuvEr?
    sum1 else trying to make me look bad right?

  1666. ping to Tally Youngblood:im not on this blog ALL the time but,when im home alone i aways am bored so i go on this blog and post ALOT of comments………… but,i have a life too so,thats why i wasnt here the ENTIRE weekend! and,i had school today and i JUST got back yesterday
    XTREMLY LATE at night so,yeah….

  1668. Wow, a movie is a great idea!!!! are you going to have auditions in El Paso, Texas? many people i know would like to try out, me included!!!!

  1669. Wow, a movie is a great idea!!!! are you going to have auditions in El Paso, Texas? many people i know would like to try out, me included!!!!

  1672. I realy do hope this will be a movie, i started reading the book a reading assignment and i have to read 141 pgs by fri of next week but i can not put the book down everyone has to make me stop reading the book, so based on what i said i read way more than 141 pgs. And i also think the cast for Tally and Shay should not be well known actresses because in the book they are not “pretty”

  1676. HI EVERYONE!!!… i gots nothing to say…

    …well…this is embarassing…

    bye then…

    ~Shay’s Biggest Fan out~

  1677. ok… i DO have something to say now…

    Waka Waka… STOP CREEPING ON WOMEN FROM THE FUTURE!!! and
    Dr. Cable’s not hot, she’s MENACING and SINISTER…
    plus.. she’s, like, almost 40…

    oh, yeah… sorry no offense…

    NOW I’M OUT…

  1678. Actually i don’t think anyone should play Pretty Tally or Zane or any of the Pretties. I mean since the whole premise behind the Pretties is that they were made surgically flawless, I really think it would be more appropriate to have digitally created characters. Or if real actors play the roles, then they should do something like in Avatar where they are almost completely computer-generated. I think that’s the only way to really depict the book. I mean even if we used the “prettiest” people in the world (whoever that is and whatever that means…) it still wouldn’t be accurate because when Tally went to the Smoke they looked at magazines from the “Rusties Age” and there were super-models in them and Tally and the other Smokies still saw them as Uglies. I’m just saying, digitally created is the way to go.

  1681. yes i do agree with KT but some one normal should play “ugly” tally and shay, because they look pretty much like a normal person but they call it being “ugly” then for the “pretty” tally and shay the same actress’ should play them but the cumputer (like in avatar) will make them different (way prettier, like in the book)

  1682. you are going to have to be very careful with the characters’ transition from uglie to pretty to special, because if there isn’t enough change between books, or if you change actors between movies, fans are going to be upset.

  1683. mai-la that is why yes i think it should be like in avatar when the actors dont look like what they do but they should not change actress’ between uglies and pretties that would ruin everything, oh i was just on a site and they said that it would be out 2011 i wonder if that is real or not

  1684. i am so bubbly (haha i bet you can guess where bubbly is from) so if you had the option would you become pretty?

  1685. if i had the option i would probably become pretty, but i would also do my best to stay bubbly

  1689. YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I’m SO bubbly right now! This movie will probably be a mega hit so please make it one 🙂

  1690. hey ppl,havent been on for awile sooo,yeah im bored and-wait i have sumthing to say i forgot;HAPPY LATE BIRTHDAY TO MY ANNOYING BROTHER! lol,forgot to say happy b-day on his acual b-day so,i sed it now…. LOL! BLAHBLEWOGIKLERAYGFDIR! LOL! im gonna say sum random words now;COW! CHEESECAKE! MOUSE! HOBO! CHRISTMAS! MAILBOX!
    FLOWERS! I! NO! OH! MEEP!
    ~David luver out

  1691. i think when you make the movie extras you should cast brenda song for aya and justin chon as her brother and shin kyoyamada as frizz (dye his hair brownish red).

  1692. Hey you all want to know who would make a great dr.cable or tally or shay you can all have you pick but i think that the great actor should be Emily Browning because when she has a part in a movie like in Modesty she makes the character come to life i think she should have the part because she can add alittle or a lot of fierce to all these three scripts. For David i think you all should use taylor lautner because he can act wild and he is 16 or is it 17 IDK!!!!!!!!!! HAve your Pics :p

  1693. wow, O.K, David luver, stop spamming the website, cuz no one reads your posts anyaway! srry if Im mean but its true right?

    Lindsay Lohan, for Maddy, is WAY too young. I think the pretties (will there be pretties!!!) shouldn’t be too old, they act really young
    David Pattinson CANNOT be in this. I don’t think he could be an uglie, and he’s not hot enough to be a pretty ( no offense.)
    I think Kate Blanchett (the russian lady from indiana jones)
    would make the perfect dr. cable! I cant picture her young.
    they can’t give the ugly actors any make up, but I don’t think they should be ugly, just not too pretty. I think there should be a lot of imperfect qualities about David, but nothing too obvious.
    idk. what do you think?

  1694. i think normal people should be the uglies then they should keep the same actors just do what they did on avatar to make them even better

  1695. this is soooo awesome! i loooooooooove uglies it’s the best series ever! ive read it like a million times! i think it would b awesome if they made a movie im like obsessed! me and my friends talk in bubble talk all the time! i got my friend kaitlyn obsessed too…annd my friend micah…and my cousin mary catherine…but yeah u get it… and rielle i TOTALLY agree with the kate blanchett thing! except for the russian accent thing that can go. and i think that uglies should b normal peepl and they should find one really pretty actress/actor and base all the other pretties on their features…and uk who should play zane if they get to pretties? …TAYLOR LAUTNER!!! i mean, he has his love story experience, he’s TOTALLY hot, and he looks like it describes zane! except i dont exactly think he would b a pretty…idk. i cant wait to c what pretties look like! whenever i read magazines i always look at the models and try to decide if theyre pretty. like what actors do u think could b a “natural pretty” maybe?

  1696. return ping to David luver: i know you arent on this blog ALL the time, but you post like you are. and you make posts as if we are on ALL the time, but we arent. and PLEASE STOP SPAMMING!!!!!! we love you, but we dont want to play that game, we have other things to do. we love your randomness, but you are going WAYYYY over the top. so please stop doing the whole “hey im gonna go crazy with the posts, and post gibberish and random words now” again, we all love you but you gotta stop……thanks. <3 Tally.
    and im re-reading the series….and im doing it backwards. heehee.
    and im reading uglies to my lil sis! ima gna make sure she gets obsessed with this series too….or else she is not my sister. btw, her eyes are HUGE!!! they make me think of pretty eyes…or Manga-head eyes!!! 😀

  1697. OMG i really hope they make it a movie. When I read the first book in 7th (i’m in 9th now) grade as a requirement I read it like it was a movie. I really was hoping to see it on the big screen sooner. I’m just happy someone read my mind and decided yes I think this could make a good movie! I hope they follow through until the end and I will be the first in line to go and see it.

  1699. no david luver im not trying to make you look bad and sorry but i love david too so leave me alone about it ok !!!1

  1702. ping to every 1:also im not on this blog for weeks, meaning its been about a few weeks since my last post(besides the things i JUST posted).
    well i go on this blog cuz im bored,and i luuv being random!
    …………………………………………………………………….
    ~David luver out

  1703. hey ppl i see u guys (well most of u) r annoyed by me…….soooo,i guess only 2-5 comments a day (or at least ill try) exept for 2day_1 comment_i promise! well,im tooooo young to be in this movie,so dont ask,cuz even though id LUUUUUUUUUUV to be in da movie….Me=TOO YOUNG TO BE ANY1 IN UGLIES,PRETTIES OR SPECIALS! so ya. SOO MAHOOGLE! lol,soo mahoogle=weird creeper person my friend made up…..
    = longest comment i ever typed!
    ~David luver out

  1704. ping to david luver: you are on this blog way to much! i love to see you are random and love the books but come on.

  1705. Ping to Everyone:
    I love these books so much!
    My friend tried to get me to read Twilight and she couldn’t get me hooked.
    I’ve NEVER been excited to read a book.
    This book is so Happy-making and defiantly not bogus.
    ^.^

  1706. Hey,i read u guys’s comments and,well,i do post WAAAAAY too much…….
    but hey,dont get me down about it! i can post 30-a-day if i want! and,why does it really matter to u ppl if i post so much?! god ppl……………
    why on earth(or whatever planet im on…)does it matter?!

  1707. LOL! i juuuuust remembered sumthin!
    CHEESECAKE TASTES LIKE CHEESECAKE CUZ ITS CHEESECAKE,ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT CHEESECAKE?

  1709. Ping to Scott-la:
    I know you said to stop asking about casting and I’m so terribly sorry if this annoys you:
    I want to play Tally-wa. I know I’ve hardly ever done acting, but I’m really good and I’ve read the series over and over. I picture myself playing her I feel as though I would be very very good at this part. IF it ever becomes a movie. And I’m turning 15 next June, so perfect timing, right? So, um, ya, e-mail me please? Thanks.

    P.S.: My favorite line in the entire series is in Specials when Tally wakes up to her ping in the Diego hospital and says, “Hi, ping-la.” It made me literally laugh out loud. Ha! LOL. 😉

  1710. Yes, I’m sorry, I’m an idiot and I’m stupid and annoying and I will leave everyone alone and never post ever again!
    ~David luver out

  1711. It’d be “Kailee-WA”, right? or am I wrong? I read the Insiders guide, but I forget..

    Anyways, I’m not too fond of Shay, her attitude and everything is totally bogusly angry-making, like my friends, except at the end of Specials, when she is finally cured she is a lot nicer and apologetic, totally happy-making.

    ***My favorite character is…TALLY…she is funny and JUST like me, I mean like absolutely totally, except I don’t have boyfriends..HA!…but I have frizzy hair just like, too.

    ((((((Ping to Scott-la:)))))) Hey, can I have a phys. descrip of Tally-wa? I really wanna know what she looks like. You have a very clear-making descrip of Shay-la, David, Zane-la, Peris-wa, but not of Tally. You say: Squinty eyes, frizzy hair, but you don’t go into detail, will you make a post? TY, lotz.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  1713. 1. The sky needs to look like salmon colored cat vomit when Tally sneaks of to see Peris. Because that first sentence automaticly makes you read the book.

    2. Two words: pig mask

    3. the roller coaster/hoverboard ride.

    4. Shay’s crudely written note ( mabe it could be written in the actress’ non-dominant hand unless that is, if they write with both hands. If that’s the case just let a little kid do it cause little kids aren’t the best handwriters.

    5.Spagbolspagbolspagbolspagbolspagbolspagbolspagbolspagbolspagbolspagbolspagbolspagbol.. The more I type those words, the nastier this meal seems to become.

    6. Tally’s Best Friend scar

    7. chicken and rabbit pen in The Smoke

    8. The knitted sweater that Tally got from giving away her spagbol.

    9. The wallscreen software that lets you “choose” what you want to look like when you’re Pretty. (forgot the name used at the moment.)

    10. The magazine scene in the library.

    Things to add to the other Tally Youngbloods list. (Super smiley Ping thanks to Jaeda-la.)

    11. “You can die pretty for all I care.”- Dr. Cable

    12. “I don’t want to hurt you but I will if I have to”- Specials

    13. The heart tracker.

    14. David kissing her and telling her shes beautiful

    15. The helicopter

    16. The white weed

    17. Shay Croy and others coming down to meet Tally when she makes it to Smoke

    18. SHAYS PIGTAILS!

    19. Tallys brown frizzy hair, thin luips and squashed down nose

    20. Davids scar

    21. GET THE HOVERBOARDS AND CARS RIGHT!

    22. An, Deex, Sussy in the sparklers of “The smoke lives!”

    23. The part where Tally is hoverboarding without shoes

    24. Boss with the pepper stuff

    25. When Shays pretty…

    ( More Super Smiley Ping thanks to Pony-la)
    26. oh crap i forgot.. oh yeah! when the smokies leave the shoes for tally in the holding pen.

    27. The doctor coming up to say:”we have a problem with your operation” this should be part of the commercial too.

    ( the OTHER Tally Youngblood) Let me add on some more… I don’t have my book so it may be hard.

    28. When Tally and David hide out in the cave.

    29. The storm when David and Tally are going to Tally’s city.

    30. Sol and Ellie ( T.Y’s crumblies.)

    31. Wrong book, but don’t forget that “Freedom has a way of destroying things.”
    – Tally Youngblood SPECIALS

    ((via: Kailee-wa))
    32.
    When Tally wakes up in the hospital in Diego

    33.
    When Tally says, “Hi, Ping-la.”

    34.
    When Dr. C breaks Tally out of SC
    -andz-

    35.
    When Tally injects Dr. C. 🙂

  1714. ^^^^^^^^^^^^
    &&&
    #36:
    THE RUSTY RUINS and GROUND CARS!!
    #37:
    The mountain by the smoke w/ the speed train!

  1716. This is SO bubbly!!!! 🙂 I’m really excited because these books will make great movies! I want to say good luck in the make-up and special effects departments. You’re going to need a lot of money for that. I just also wanted to say i think the movies series should end with Specials. Extras was a really good book, don’t get me wrong, but it was kind of just, bogus without Squint-la and Skinny-la until the end. Also, (sorry this is such a long comment) but i wanted to say that is VERY important that the actresses who portray Tally and Shay correctly by changing ever so much with each movie. Tally and Shay’s personalities change every time they get the operation from uglies, to pretties, to specials.

  1717. This is totally amazing. The books will make amazing movies! I wish you all good luck! I agree with Lauren that the series should end in Specials. Extras was great and all but it destroys the overall purpose of the story. GO UGLIES!

  1718. hey,DIIING-DOOOONG! helloooooooo?
    i stiiiiill havent read specials yet!……. i kno! darn me right? ya,i hav worse words………………..ok,so,my friend,is soooo forgetful that shes starting over on uglies for THE 18TH TIME!!!!!!!!!!! i kno right? but,still……i told her to give up,but she shouted NOOOOO. WAAAAAY!. so i kno shes still not gonna be finish for awile so if she gives up,da movie’ll be ther!
    ~David luver out

  1719. plz give us another update is the movie really gonna happn and ive heard rumered release dates to be October 2011 plz confirm or deni this for thx loads

  1720. I totally cannot wait for this movie! its gonna be awesum!!!!!!!! i kno; i sed “cannot” but who kares? ME NOT KARE! lol

  1722. I think Wendie Malick should play Dr. Cable in the movie. I’ve seen her in other movies, and when ever she has to play a mean character, she sounds kind of how I’ve always pictured Dr. Cable to sound

  1723. hellooooooooooooooo!
    im back;again………… so,yeah im sorta bored right now…

  1724. E is for emotional ruins everybodys day M is for miserable people O is for on the dark side cuz we have sum fresh baked cookies!
    =emo song

    ~David luver out

  1727. E is for emotional ruins everybodys day M is for miserable people O is for on the dark side cuz we have sum fresh baked cookies!
    HEEEEEEEY!
    IM BACK AGAAAIN!
    Megan, no1 is ever on when im on either……..
    xept for Shay’s Biggest Fan a.k.a my sister…..

  1729. WAAAAAAIT!
    im not quiiiiiiiite gone yet_1. more.thing.2.say.!!!!!!!.

    Shay’s Biggest Fan read midnighters the secret hour and told me a bit about it,so i got a little hair clip mabobber and named it FLABBERGASTED so that it could protect me!
    Well…..

    ~David luver out

  1730. I cant wait for the movie, it will be great! But they have to have it just like the book, they cant change it or it will be dumb. When is it finally going to come out? Please Scott please update us on the movie!!!!! Please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  1731. wow thats alotta comments! Everyone must be really excited! I am to, but whenever a movie comes out for a book i like, they always ruin it. course, im gonna see it anyway. but im scared that its gonna ruin my view of how i picture the book, even if it is good and true to the details.

  1733. i soooooo want this 2 b a movie. i agree with pretty much every1 about tally and shay being sum1 new but dr.cable being sum1 new. mayb angelina jolie? or not. idk just a thot. so bye stay bubbly and hav a totally happy-making day! =-)

  1735. This movie will make it big time if it comes out. The very essence of it and its diverse plot and animated characters keep you thirsty for more. This book can make you feel like you are literally in another world and blows away my mind. If some director out there wants to make mega money… this is the movie to do it on. I can guarantee it will entice all types of audiences and bring in so many new fans along with the current ones. Just keep to the book, bring in new actors, and take the time needed to make this movie be the best it can be.

  1736. hey. im here now!
    i kno that this movie will be great if no1 messes it up:P
    but i just dont want this to be an off-book/suckish-with-horrible-looking-actors movie(twilight).so im just hoping that itll be gooooood!

  1740. oh…my…lord..now THIS is a special circumstance! i absolutely LOVE the books, and i think movies would be AMAZINGGG…im totally bubbly now, i cant lie to myself and say im not getting my hopes up D: yeah..tilda swinton for dr. cable, deffff. :] if they dont make the movies at least SOMEWHAT closely related to the books though i think it might ruin some of the excitement :\ keep that in mind producers, you see, i dont want to hurt you but i will if i have to. ahaha 😀 <3 eeeep

  1741. I have read the books along with my kids I also think it would make a great movie even though very few movies live up to the books they are usually still a lot of fun. I would like to put Morena Baccarin (Anna from the new V tv series) in for Dr. Cabel. Of course that might type cast her. I think she makes a great evil but beautiful character.

  1742. OMG! My b!rthd@y i$ 0n M0nd@y and ! w@nt the wh0/e $er!e$! !’ve a/re@dy re@d them, but ! want them f0r my $he/f, h@! !’// f!n@//y be 14!

  1743. Hey.(: I’m about to turn 13 but I’m tall is there any chance I could play shay or tally?
    Anywways please have casting in everystate then pick one or two from each for each major part because we do want the best unknown commited actors/actresses and then bring then to california and make them compete against each other.for example I live in Texas and if you decide to have Auditions in Dallas I would be happy to get there allege way from the Houston area.
    And dont you think that jessica alba would make a great dr. Cable ? Because she’s pretty but has a wild look too.(:

  1744. Thnx for making the movie and if i was 5 years older i would’ve loved to be Tally 🙁 on the other hand though i think there are a few things about the movie that i want

    1. tally should have the brown frizzy hair (by the way i have that) squashed nose, and thin lips. also in my head i kind of imagined her to have baby cheeks
    2. shay should have her pigtails, BLACK hair, and somewhat tomboyish.
    3. David should look wild and possibly have somewhat of an accent because he did grow up in the wild instead of the city
    4. the uglies shouldnt look perfect they should have a few pimples Etc. with no or little makeup.
    5. i would love to see the scenery really good and have amazing graphics 🙂
    6. i think new pretty town should have all those high stratesphere-like buildings.

    anyway the movie will be totally bubbly i know Scott-la Bye and Thnx again

  1745. Hey maybe i can still be in the movie as young Tally! u know in the flash backs with Peris! HALLELUJAH !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! anyway luv your books read all of them including Bogus to Bubbly 🙂

  1746. Hey maybe i can still be in the movie as young Tally! u know in the flash backs with Peris! HALLELUJAH !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! anyway luv your books

  1747. When Tally says hi Ping-la in specials is my favorite part because she seems so happy and care-free

  1748. I really think Mia Wasikowska would be a good Shay and Emily Browning as Tally. Steven Strait would make a good Zane. I know no big cast things are up or anything, but I am just suggesting. Specials is my favorite book. It has so much action and sadness in it. The series is just so unique. I can’t wait to hear more about movie details. Yay! Also, I think Angelina Jolie would make a good Dr. Cable. She can pull off that whole cruel pretty look. I hope you like my suggestions.
    ~ Leda

  1749. OMG!! I can’t wait. I wonder if they will make the actresses and actors really different looking after their ‘operation’
    I think it will make an amazing movie, it’ll definatly be on my calender!

  1750. u know i always imagined dr cable with glasses but then i realized she has perfect vision, but scott-la i was wondering do uglies wear glasses???????

  1751. one other thing in the movie i want is the puke brown color of the walls in special circimstance headquarters. why does everything in that book have to be related to puke???????????????????????????????

  1752. THIS BETTER BECOME A MOVIE!!!I BET IT WOULD BECOME BIG LIKE THE TWILIGHT SAGA!!!…JUST SAYIN!! 🙂

  1753. OMG! Since the year the book came out my older sister got it and used to read it to me all the time! She used to say I kinda acted like Tally, and when they do start casting, I will be there auditioning for the part of Tally. Me and my mom wanted to make this into a movie, and I researched it and apparently Scott is way ahead of me.

    Dr. Cable I picture as… Angelina Jolie. She is so beautiful and she knows how to be quit-witted while acting.

    Uglyville needs to include a lot of normal kids. And while Tally tells her story she needs to include flashbacks.

    All I can think of right now 😉

  1754. A ping just went through me that Tilda Swinton would make an awesome Dr. Cable. My flash tatoo is flashing. I feel so bubbly right now. It’s bogus not to be excited and not have your fingers crossed for this movie. The Uglies has taken over my life. I told my ex-boyfriend that he has was probably turned Pretty whenever he broke-up with me, and he was like …”Wha?” Anywayz if you are as excited for the movie as me email me at truckers_girly@live.com if you want to discuss the book.

  1757. i already read the full series and really enjoyed it i hope it becomes a movie thanks westerfeld for the great books♥

  1758. I have read the whole Uglies series and I am totally hooked! I finished each book in less than three days, they are amazing. I think the series would make an amazing movie. I think Angelina Jolie would be perfect as Dr. Cable, that’s almost exactly how i pictured her as I read. And I agree that Shay and Tally should be unknown, undiscovered actresses (like me!).

  1759. YAYYY!!!!!! I’m rereading the series right now, (I’m 3/4 of the way through pretties, even though I only started Uglies last night! I finished that around 3 am, then started pretties, and I’m almost on Specials, and its only 1:53 pm!) and I keep thinking “If they do it right, and don’t totally screw it up, this will make a totally beast movie!” And, seeing as you want an unkown for Tally, I just thought I’d put it out there that I work for cheap!!!!! *wink,wink/hint,hint* 😀 I’d say make me Shay, but I ain’t skinny!!!!!!!!!! 😀

  1760. i luv the books and after i read all of them i wanted them to become movies. i cant wait until the movie is made. i hope the movie seems real not fake . this will be better than harry potter and twilight stuff

  1761. I do think that they should make real hoverboards, eyescreens, interface rings, ect. Callie-wa out 😉

  1763. I don’t know if you guys haven’t noticed, but on the imdb website, it is reported that tally is going to be Ashley from “secret life of the american teenager”, who i think is ugly, but Shay is going to be this really pretty girl I’ve never seen before. I thought Tally was supposed to be prettier? and David (who is supposedly ugly) is that guy from the Hannah montana movie, i think he’s kinda hot. but it’s supposed to come out 2011. the cast isn’t up anymore, but when i checked a few days ago, that’s what was said. so can’t wait!

  1764. I am obsessed with music and ever since i finished pretties and uglies i had two songs stuck to two parts in your book. I really think these songs are perfect for the movie and plot (lyrics-wise and sound-wise).
    chills by peter bjorn and john- hover boarding
    Such great heights by postal service- bubbly/exciting scenes
    i know…….. its early for this, but i just had to post this to clear my head a little from this..hehe

  1765. I didn’t see any cast list on imdb so I wonder if that was taken down since you saw it Haley?

  1766. OH MY GODDDDDDD !!!!!!! (: (: (: (: i have been reading this series since its been out!!! adn ive even gottan my mom and girly friends (who usually dont like science fiction) to read these book! AND THEY LOVED THEM !!!! I really hope that they make these books into movies. kinda like he twilight seires. but better 😀

  1768. I think this is awesome that it will become a movie!
    I read these books years ago and the first thing i said was “This has to be a movie” and finally people are coming to there senses!!!!! I believe this movie will be greater than harry potter (if done right)
    this is the most exciting thing i have heard all week!!!!!!

  1769. one more thing!
    when i first read these books a song came out called THe Adventure Final by Angels and Airwaves.
    even the actual music goes great with the story
    it speaks of “life waiting to begin”
    also Everythings Magic by Angels and Airwaves
    Secret Crowds angels and airwaves
    and so on with many of the angels and airwaves songs.
    many of their songs relate to these books so well.
    its almost like they wrote them for the movie!!! haha

  1776. As a teacher I think these books have a strong message. It would be important to me that the message not be lost in the filming of this movie. I agree that not having already famous actors and actresses play the parts of the main uglies will help with this, however, it may enforce they message to have the “pretties” and “specials” be familiar beautiful faces. I think the smokes will be the toughest to cast (David especially) and the rusty ruins will be the hardest set because the contrast is so important to the message. Attitude is everything in this storyline. I’m so excited about the prospect. As I read the book, I kept mapping out the location in my head by the location of the ocean, desert, east, west, southern continent, etc. I hope this all comes through.

  1777. ok david luver im not trying to make you loo bad or anything but im just being my self and there is nothing wrong with that and just because i love david and you love david doesnt mean im copying you infact maybe you are copying me cuz i read the books a year ago and i have loved david ever since so get over it and i would never want to copy you because everyone hates you and thinks taht you are annoying.
    -DaVId lUveR(the normal one)

  1778. seriously david luver and DaVId lUveR cant you guys just both get over it and it doesnt matter who is coppiying who infact you two could be really good friends i mean you both love david and the uglies books plus you are both annoying and mean so if you guys just open your eyes and look at whats right infront of you there would be alot less fighting and ya maybe we could all be alittle bit less mean and it only takes 2 people to change that so whos with me

  1779. im with you allie and i totally agree with you!!! and ya i could be less mean too just like everyone!!!and look now we have those two people to change this so c’mon people lets do this!!! and thank you allie now i realize whats going on on this blog!!! but im not blaming anyone for any of this because tecnically its not anyones fault.

  1780. Hey, i just read through all of the coments and wow that one person, david luver, has posted so many random things i mean seriously tthere wasnt like anything he hasnt said!! Its’s hillarious!!! But i do agree with the two girls allie and makenzie, you guys could be alot nicer!!!

  1786. jordi- milla says to take the black li but i just got my pink one so lets take that!!

    mercades- do we leave on friday?

    allie- i totally agree with ya everyone should be nicer.

  1788. ya leave fri. maybe ill see you 2 on the way it wont be to hard to find a bright pink limo with 2 screaming girls on top of it!! lol

  1789. All I have to say is this:

    Max Thieriot.

    He is who I pictured in my mind as David the entire time. And he looks way younger than he actually is, so he could totally pull it off. He has the whole ragged, handsome, imperfect thing that the actor portraying David needs.

    Also, Idina Menzel would be an amazing Cable.

  1790. dear everyone whos reading this,
    i always thought that this would be a place to coment on the uglies movie and to make friends but no i was way wrong half the people on here are jerks. the other half are just like how i pictured this place to be. I cant control any of you but who i can control is me. iv never posted anything on here or ever even thought about it but when allie decided to say what she thought i decided i should too. she took a stand and said what she thought was right. so now im doing the same. no allie im not with you because you should mind your own buisness. but im with you on the fact that everyone should just be able to be them selfes . like David luver hes not afraid of what anyone thinks only himself and i respect that but guess what i cant control anyone but me so heres what im doing about it. nothing.
    -serena

  1791. I just finished the first book and the other 3 are in the post to me- hopefully will have arrived by tomorrow! When I found out that they were making a film of the book, I was sooooo excited!!! I would LOVE to play the role of Tally, I’v auditioned for 1 movie before, I got through to the 4th round before the said I was still a little too young for the part. Hopefully I’ll get a better shot with this one (if they even make the film!) If you are reading this Mr Westfeld, thank you soooo much for writing this series, I couldn’t stop talking about the Uglies for ages (still can’t!)
    Sophie

  1793. omg i totally agree with katie those people are perfect but i do think taylor laughtner should act as david i think the whole thing is perfect!!!!!!!!! im so excted for this movie i cant wait it will be perfect i hope!!!!!!!!!!

  1794. Uma Thurman would be perfect as Dr. Cable in my opinion. She played Medusa recently in Percy Jackson and did a great job, she’s a blonde, hot, powerful and talented woman.

  1795. Wow i really hope that they come out with a movie for Uglies! I’m in the middle of Pretties and this is my first time reading the series and i’m deeply in nlove with it! I loved seeing my name in it even if it’s spelled differently(Maddy). I always thought it would so amazing if i got a part in a movie like this that would based a book so amazingly BUBBLY! I know i’m probably too young for most parts and it would never fly with my parents to do an audition (i’m only 13) but it will be super fantastic to see what hollywood has in store for this amazing book/movie. Even if the movie is terrible, which believe me i really hope it isn’t, i’ll always have the mental pictures of gorgeous Shay and independent Tally and of course super hot Zane (yes i know he starts in pretties) but it’ll be great to see the story unfold up on the big screen. Scott is completely right about the unknown actorsses and actors for the main roles and a better known one for Dr. Cable and i really hope that everyone that works on this movie if it’s produced knows what they’re doing and makes good decisions with casting and following the story.
    THE SMOKE LIVES FOREVER!!!!!!!! STAY BUBBLY!!!!!!!!! 000:)000

  1796. Ping to Tara-la:
    I completely agree Taylor Lautner should be Zane. They’re both amazingly H O T HOT! Completely pretty-making! so yea if the director (well if there is going to be one) reads this make Taylor Lautner Zane PLZPLZPLZPLZPLZ! TY
    Stay BUBBLY! <3 Madi-la(i guess i never figured out the difference between wa and la o well i will eventually!)

  1797. i dont read or anything i dance i really dont know why im on this website but i am. the books are too big for me to even try readding and no im not 5 im 13. i like looking and the covers and watching movies.

  1801. PLEASE PLEASE make Uglies into a movie!!!! I agree I really want an unknown for Tally, David, Shay, & Zane and someone famous for Dr. Cable I was kind of thinking Nicole Kidman because I just watched the Golden Compass and I just feel like she would fit. Also I really think you should have an open casting call because who else would know Tally more than a hardcore fan. So just give normal people like us a chance!!! Does anyone think Tally could have freckles? Just like the around the nose and upper cheek area?

  1803. omg i really want this to a movie and i think you need to look really hard for just the rite tally how bout me:) hay a girl can dream! please do tell us if its an open auditon i would be there in a heart beat!

  1804. I would DEFINITELY see that movie, I may even audition… assuming there are auditions of course 🙂 I would really LOVE to play Tally… I know, I know, a million other Uglies fangirls would be DYING to play Tally… but I act out scenes from the movie in my mirror every night. :/ Even Shay would be AWESOME.
    The Uglies series is the best. Ever. Don’t you forget it!!!
    With Love,
    A New Smokey

  1805. Woops, correction up there. I meant book when I wrote “I act out scenes from the movie.”
    My bad…

  1806. i agree that all the main characters should be unknown actors. if theyre already famous, it’ll seem strange seeing them as one of the characters in the books. so i think there should be open auditions so tally, shay, david, and zane will all seem more normal because they actually are normal people. that will make it more realistic because the people arent already superstars and arent gorgeous or super ugly. because if theyre extremely beautiful or extremely ugly it wont make them seem realistic, it will make them seem too dramatic. so i think the uglies shouldnt be ugly, they should be normal-looking. cuz when everyone’s pretty, then everyone else appears ugly. thats how i imagined the uglies to be.
    another thing i noticed is that people are sugggesting actors who are waaaaaay too old for the role!! someone said Angelina Jolie would play a good special Tally!! :S idts… shes a better Dr.Cable.
    someone suggested Emily Browning as Tally on imdb. i think she would be perfect!!
    i just thot of this now, but Logan Lerman would play a great David!! he’s not too good looking or too ugly, he’s average and seems real to me.
    truth be told, i imagined Shay to be asian. idk why, but she seems like she should be.
    i heard a lot of suggestions for Dr.Cable, and i think a lot of them are good for the role!! Angelina Jolie (as said above), Nicole Kidman, Uma Thurman, Tilda Swinton, and Susan Sarandon could all fit the part!! i also think Sigourney Weaver would be great too!! she was really great in Avatar, and i think she could play Dr.Cable.
    idk who would play a good zane…he just needs to be hot!! 😛
    and peris needs to be innocent-looking.
    haha!! i think i couldve palyed Tally…if only i was a better actress and didnt hav braces!! XD

  1807. First of a movie adaption of this would be AMAZING! *screeches* I have read all the books and honestley they are as good (or better) as the Harry Potter series in my opinion. I just don’t want to see what happened to HP happen to the Uglies, since I think they did a crap job on the HP series. I understand the need to cut some things out since they don’t want the movie to be 2978892 hours long, but seriousley be CAREFUL with what they cut out!

    My suggestions for roles (not that they are likely to be taken seriosley)
    Tally-Emily Browning
    Shay-Namie Amuro
    Zane-Taylor Lautner
    David-Daren Kagasoff
    Dr. Cable- Angelina Jolie plays evil so well

  1809. ok i personaly think taylor lautner should NOT be zane. yea he is H O T hot but he doesnt look like what i think zane looks like.
    omg i cant wait til the movie comes out!!! i will be so mad if it doesnt!!!!!

  1810. this is very exciting news to me! Reading this made me burst out in tears (not really but you get my point). Anyway i sense this is going to be one of those amazing movies where the movie actually fits the book unlike some other movies. And please don’t cast anyone like taylor lautner for a role. It’ll just change the movie into where someone is seeing the movie just for him. I think tally and shay could be someone not unknown but someone that is not famous. But very very happy hearing this news.

  1811. where did you go david luver im sorry i didnt mean anything really im sooooooooooooooo sorry!!!!!!!!!! please just keep posting i really didnt mean to hurt your feelings!!!!! im sorry everyone i really rreally am!! -allie

  1812. cant wait this will be the best movie ever i think taylor laughtner should be david omg speaking of him who has seen eclips!!!!!! luv that movie!!!!! and until uglies comes out eclips is my top fav movie!!!!

  1813. meeeeeeee iv seen eclips wait i went with you duh think better brooke!!!!! im marring taylor laughtner cuz then we can both we taylor laugtner how awesome!!!!!!! cant belive i missed new york tour i was so freakin mad anyway good book good movie bad book bad movie so lets go with the good book and good movie okay? okay good. *taylor*

  1815. i hate it when the book is better than the movie who cares if the movie is four hours long or maybe split it in 2 different movies just make it good please

  1816. i seriously think this book would make a great movie if the produsers dont mess it up!!! choose the produsers wisly in fact i think scott should direct it since he wrote the book but whatever o and tay, i missed new york tour too so we will deal with this together

  1817. i cant wait till they make this series into a movie when i was in 6th grade my techer put us in to a lit group and i was assigned to to this book we could only read one chapter a night i could not stop reading it but i think that Tilda Swinton would make a good dr.cable and that Thora Birch would make a good tallytally

  1818. congrats on having your books popular enough to have them potentially made into a movie. I’m very excited. I wonder if you will end up with a camio in it. Hopefully it turns out well and soon….

  1819. In the Uglies series, I want someone like that girls from When A Stranger Calls. The one who SHOULD play Dr. Cable is that woman from Resident Evil. Her eyes are so damn vicious I just love them. Shay seems like the outgoing girl and I’d really want her to be played by someone that’s not well-known but has great acting skills.

    I really would love for this to be a movie. The Uglies series is the only series that I never thought there would be absolutely no flaws to it. And please do not let the guy who directed the 5-7 HP movies direct it. He’ll ruin everything.

    Also, I see everyone is talking about Twilight. It’s not worth fighting for, guys. Really.

  1820. i’m super excited about the uglies movie i looked on imdb.com but when i looked on there today it said they had no record of it and there was going to be some zombie movie so don’t even bother looking there but nonetheless i can’t wait for the uglies movie the suspense is killing me so i can’t wait 🙂

  1821. OMFG i love these books i fukin wanna watch the movie’s like i posted alot on myspace and i am soooooo upsessed with them i want to be the first one to watch the movie. what starts all my conversations is talking about the series of Uglies. i still have to read Specials and Extras but i dont care. i finished Pretties in 2 days i bet i can read the books in less tham 4 days. Uglies i spend reading Uglies in wat like 5 weeks because i was tooooooo lazy to read but when i got to read more often the book got interesting and i read it!! My teacher doesnt have the book Specials and Extras i have been bothering my teacher to get the books for me and she said that she is going to get me it but she never does!! YOU KNOW WHO WOULD BE THE BEST PERSON THAT PLAYS TALLY…. ME I JUST LOVE HER I KNOW ALL ABOUT HER AND I THINK SHE IS JUST LIKE ME BUT I DONT KNOW…

  1822. omg plzzzzzzzzzzzzzz make uglies a movie! I want to see what pretties look like! Plus i want to be a pretty even if it means i have to be a bubblehead! Tally shoodnt have been like “duh i wanna go be a hobo and live in the smoke.” i think Tally shoodnt have cured everybody from being bubbleheads because now everyone is going to ruin the world just like the rusties! (dont believe me? read extras!) well anyyway i hope in the next couple of years or so someone will invent better plastic/cosmetic surgery so people can be “pretty”!!!!! Btw scott westerfeld if u readin this email me!!!!!

  1826. omg i read all the books in a week and so did my friends and you came to our school but i was absent and i cried so far i’m reading midnighters and it is amazing i love your books and hope you never stop writing yay!!!!!!!!!!!

  1827. Please plz make this into a movie. it would be amazing. if the movie was just like the book i’m sure it would reach twilight level of phenomenom

  1828. OMG i am SO excited for this to be made into a movie! Its so happy-making. 😀
    I think that chick from “The Univited” should play Tally. She’s just what I imagined her looking like. (: IDC really as long as its like the book. Twilight sucked! Kristin Stewart can’t act! Plus it was just awful. I want all the excitement and passion and adventure as in the books. It needs to be like someones imagination on screen. Maybe they should do it like “Avatar”? That was an awesome movie. <3

  1829. why is everyone on here so mean to other people!!!! i want this to be such a good movie that everyone in the entire world loves it i mean if they dont mess it up there is no dought that everyone in the entire world wont love it!!! even my friend sienna likes it and she has never EVER picked up a book in her entire life!!! and more of my friends would read the books im sure if they saw the movie!!!!!!!!!!!

    ~Cara~

  1830. Hey Scott-la can we get an update? A yes or no to the movie, because I don’t want to get my hopes up waiting for a Uglies movie when it isn’t gonna happen, and let us know if there is gonna be a casting call. Even for extras because, I would love being an extra. Thanks:)

    Kailyn

  1832. This movie is more important to me than Twilight is. I LOVED the Uglies series when I read it and I’m eagerly awaiting this movie! =) Hope the movie is as awsome as the books are.

  1833. Me and my friends have all agreed that this should be made into a movie. I think it will snap all the Twilight fans out of their hypnotic trance! Dr. Cable is going to be interesting… I think Demi Lovato should be in this movie… Or Selena Gomez. They’re amazing actors…. I think it would do this movie some good… I can’t wait until it comes out:)) and it better. lol

  1835. I have been waiting for them to make a movie out of this book for like ever! I t would be so awesome and i would go see it the first day it comes out!

  1837. I CANT BELIEVE THEIRS GONNA BE A MOVIE THESE R THE BEST BOOKS EEEVVEEERRR IVE NEVER LIKED A BOOK SERIES SSOOOOO MUCH IN MY LIFEEE OOMMMMGGG I LOVE U SCOTT WESTERFIELD

    p.s im still reading pretties 😛

  1838. They would be missing a HIT movie series if they give up this opportunity! Especially if they cast it right, and not just ‘make another movie’. This series deserves more than that! These books have such a great plot, characters you can relate to and exciting adventures that will appeal to all ages! I’m 24 and I’m reading them with my 6th grade students! haha I got online to specifically find out if there is already a movie to buy! You have a great thing going Mr. Westerfeld! Thank you for sharing your creativity!

  1839. So now this was all 2 years ago, whats the real update? Is there really going to be an uglies movie? ive read and i loved it im now reading pretties and i find it phenominal! Please make it into a movie!

  1840. Scott Westerfeld,

    My name is Paris Hadley and I would have to say that I am a pretty big fan of your “Uglies” series. I read all four books in a matter of six days. I would have to admit that it was far better than any other book series I have ever read. In regards to the movie, I do agree that it would be a huge hit, to both teens and people of older ages. I know probably millions of people write you this all the time that they want to be in your movie but, I really believe that if I get the chance to audition and I actually got a part it would be such a miracle and a dream come true. I cannot wait to hear the latest updates about the movie and auditions. Thank you for your time and for reading this.

    Sincerely,
    Paris Hadley

  1841. My name is Rebekah Stenstrom. I have not read the books but, my friend (Paris) has told me ever detail about all four books. Even though I haven’t read the books I feel like I have. I will DEFINITELY read all the series, cause Paris has got me hooked on the books. Now that I am interested, I went to your website to get more info about you and your books. Going through all of that I came across this forum about a possible movie. Just by hearing the series from my best friend makes me want to see it on the big screen. Seeing all the characters come to life would be so intense. Like a lot of other people are saying on here, it would be very nice to see news faces in this film, and yes some famous people as well. Doing some thinking Angelina Jolie would be my pick for Dr.Cable, but that is just my opinion. I know how difficult it can be to get a actress like her, but it would be Bubble-Making. I have been doing theater since I was very young, along with my BFFL Paris, and we have had a dream for a long time now to be known. But it takes time and you need a lot of experience in order to do just right. Well that is all I got to say for now, until next time. Thank you for reading this, and God Bless.

    Sincerely,
    Rebekah Stenstrom
    (Bekah)

  1842. My cousin lent me the first book, and I totally fell in love with it instantly as I read the sentence about how the sky was pink like cat vomit.. Ahaahha XD. Anyway, For Dr. Cable in this movie, I think it shud be someone who looks all sweet and frilly with short bouncy hair and a cute little round face. But underneath all this he should be pure evilnesshiss. You know, like that person who was on Harry potter, the fifth one I think. That lady who took over hogwarts who loved pink and cats and all that. But of course, pure evilnessish!!!!

    What do you think?

  1843. When I finished “Extras” I was dying to know if there would be a movie, I am so excited! I love all of Scott Westerfeld’s Uglies seiries! But one question, If you do make an Uglies movie, will you make Pretties, Specials, and Extras?

  1844. Sam-la, like he said, if they do make it into a movie, they may continue the series if it’s successful :p

  1845. OMG! MAKE THE MOVIE!!!!!!!!!!!
    PLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAASSSSSSSSEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    it’lll be SOOOOOO good and EVERYONE will watch it!!!!! IT’ll be WORTH IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  1846. OMG! MAKE THE MOVIE!!!!!!!!!!!
    PLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAASSSSSSSSEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    it’lll be SOOOOOO good and EVERYONE will watch it!!!!! IT’ll be WORTH IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  1847. OMG! MAKE THE MOVIE!!!!!!!!!!!
    PLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAASSSSSSSSEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    it’lll be SOOOOOO good and EVERYONE will watch it!!!!! IT’ll be WORTH
    IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  1848. I would sooo watch this movie. I lovee the books and I have read them twice. To me… this would be a better movie than twilight.. and I LOVE the twilight series. This Movie NEEDS to happen.

  1849. I would sooo watch this movie. I lovee the books and I have read them twice. To me… this would be a better movie than twilight.. and I LOVE the twilight series. These movies NEEDS to happen.

  1850. I honestly havent read the books but my sister read them all and it sounds like it would be perfect 2 have a bunch of movies on it… if you do it would legit be the best movies ever!!! 😀

  1851. I read all the books and I’ve gotta say their probaly my favorite books EVER! I have a lot of friends who have read these books as well and I know for a fact that they would go to the midnight showing if Uglies were to ever become a movie. The greatest thing about this book is that it has everything I love. It has action, suspence, much more…. And Romance.. Which just made me Love the book even more.
    This movie would be a real challenge. I mean, to make it like the book you would have to find SO many beautiful actresses and some not so beautiful but could potentialy become beautiful. Also, trying to find a not so beautiful or famous but slighty beautiful actor/actress is not a very easy thing to do.. I don’t know. I just REALY hope this becomes a movie!

  1852. nicole kidamn should be the actress for dr.cable!! she has got the perfect skinny face and pale skin and is just the most perfectest actress for the character!!

  1853. I think above famous/not famous is the actor’s ability. Obviously Kristen Stewart was not good for the role at all because her acting choices were horrible and not corrected by a director. I think it’s important that the uglies especially look 16, maybe 15, just so the pretties have some legroom to look a little bit older if they’re prettiness make them look older. Ahh sorry for mentioning Twilight. I’m sure everyone is tired of comparing this to that book-movie.

    But some mistakes with Twilight could be avoided. For instance, I imagined the vampires so beautiful that they turned to crystal in the sunlight, not glittered. So the effects NEED to be so much better than that in this movie, especially with so much action involved and such a sharp divide between the uglies and pretties.

    The pretties can be cgi’d so their eyes stand out more because just being pretty might not satisfy people since the perception of beauty needs to be taken to the extreme. I imagine them having a dumb look overall. Shia LaBeof for david would be awesome too because his face is still different enough from the regular male model to look kind and ugly. He is also capable of playing the role quite well in my opinion.

    I’m so excited!!! this movie HAS TO HAPPEN. I WANT TO BE IN A THEATRE LOOKING AT A SKY THE COLOR OF CAT VOMIT.

  1854. Hey Scott, I’m not going to really make any real suggestions because it’s YOUR book, therefore it should be YOUR movie. I will be happy as long as the movie does get made, no pressure *sarcasm* You did a great job on the book and it really was a movie in itself. I’m just happen you made the books in the first place. I don’t want you to spend all your time reading all 4,000 comments so Ill end this message. Great Job! Your my favorite author.

  1855. i,ve read the series and in my that you should have a lot of new and not yet completely world known actors, um thats about it, oh! and i believe that the movie should at least be close to how the book describes it i mean, if you read the vampire diary its not even close to the book in the show and that tends to bring frustration and if this makes no sense to you im srry but im only twelve and im doing a author research paper on you and i saw this and i was so very happy and well, listen to me i’m babbling! any ways keep being awesome! Best of luck with the movie!

  1856. :O I JUST FOUND OUT AND I DIED, IMMEDIATELY! I REALLY HOPE THIS MOVIE IS MADE, THIS IS THE ONLYY MOVIE I WOULD WAIT YEARS AND YEARS TO WATCH IN FULL ANTICIPATION EACH YEAR FOR IT(not that i want to wait years but still:P) AND I’M DEAD SERIOUS!!! This series was ABSOLUTELY my ultimate favorite, it had everyhting from sci-fi, adventure, romance, and the list of amazing goes on! I EVEN FOUND BOGUS TO BUBBLY SOO FLIPPING EXCITING AND IT JUST TALKED ABOUT DETAILS OF THE OTHER BOOKS. After that I knew that NOTHING could top this series and I read this book like four years ago and I STILL AGREE TO THIS DAY!!!!!!!
    I’M SO FLIPPING EXCITEDDD!! THANK YOU SOOO MUCH I CAN NOW DIE OF HAPPINESS:)*dying now*

  1857. i picked this book up and started reading and couldnt stop i finished the whole series in a weekend at my lake .i love your books so much if this is produced as well as i am expecting it to i think it will be a great way to get more people to read your books LOVE this seires:) cant wait

  1858. Dude, I should be in this movie. I have freckles, and bunny teeth, but I’m still cute. Not pretty, cute, and certainly not Pretty. I’m an ugly duckling. Kinda like Tally-wa. She’s like an ugly duckling waiting to be made pretty. Until she sees the light… *insert epicful music here*

  1860. Hi guys! I really agree with the things you say about Tally, Shay and David. I think that they have to be unknown acotrs with the same characteristics as it is described in the book. I would love to be part of the film, i’ve read the first book and i think is great, so i would like to give life to Tally’s character, i think i fit in the rol: i’m 16 i have brown hair… i don’t know may be you can give your opinion 🙂 i’ve subscribed myself into explore talent’s webpage where casting directors can see my profile, maybe you want to have a look at it. And if it’s not much to ask i would appreciate if you can tell me whether there are going to be any open auditions 🙂 here is the website:
    http://www.exploretalent.com/macarena4798203

  1861. Hi guys! I really agree with the things you say about Tally, Shay and David. I think that they have to be unknown acotrs with the same characteristics as it is described in the book. I would love to be part of the film, i’ve read the first book and i think is great, so i would like to give life to Tally’s character, i think i fit in the rol: i’m 16 i have brown hair… i don’t know may be you can give your opinion 🙂 i’ve subscribed myself into explore talent’s webpage where casting directors can see my profile, maybe you want to have a look at it. And if it’s not much to ask i would appreciate if you could tell whether there are going to be any open auditions 🙂 here is the website:
    http://www.exploretalent.com/macarena4798203

  1862. I have dyslexia and the Uglies series is one of the first series I ever read. I love it, and have alway thought it would make a great movie, thank you Scott Westerfeld for making me want to read!

  1863. I was so hyped when i heared the series would be turnd into a movie. They were such great books to read and the charecters were so relateable i hopeto movie will do them justice

  1864. If this comment is read by another uglies books junkie and is agreed with please talk about it! I am not trying to sound pushy making (ha XD) but as you can see I am the 1864 comment and will probavly not be read by many. If this is Scott or a helper a Scott please consider this. In Uglies you mentioned something about Natural born pretties. You shouls write a book about them! It was a small part but it got my thinker going! Were they nicer than regular pretties (who I find kind of mean!) When did they go to pretty Vill? Did they still surge? Were they all born around the same time? Was it because there perents over surged. Sorry I am probably dizzy making. BUT I HANG ON TO EVERY WORD LIKE IT’S THE LAST ONE!!!!
    Yes this doese have nothing to do with the movie…I’m getting to that!

    For the movie I think that either Nicole Kidman or Angilna Joley should play Dr.Cable. For the people who say the people on the cover should play Tally thheese books came out around 2005. I think David should be played by Chord Over street (sam from glee anyone) :D. I think Peris should be plyed by Lucas Grabeel. (He might be to old but I am still thinking) Or Unknown actors. After all they are just regular kids…or at atleast it started that way. I know this is a long post so rember my first idea please natural born pretties books!
    I also think peole read post with lost of smileys so
    😀 P 😀 L 😀 E 😀 A 😀 S 😀 R 😀 D 😀 😀 😀 😀 :D!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    -♥ Smkie Shelby

  1865. If this comment is read by another uglies books junkie and is agreed with please talk about it! I am not trying to sound pushy making (ha XD) but as you can see I am the 1864 comment and will probavly not be read by many. If this is Scott or a helper a Scott please consider this. In Uglies you mentioned something about Natural born pretties. You shouls write a book about them! It was a small part but it got my thinker going! Were they nicer than regular pretties (who I find kind of mean!) When did they go to pretty Vill? Did they still surge? Were they all born around the same time? Was it because there perents over surged. Sorry I am probably dizzy making. BUT I HANG ON TO EVERY WORD LIKE IT’S THE LAST ONE!!!!
    Yes this doese have nothing to do with the movie…I’m getting to that!

    For the movie I think that either Nicole Kidman or Angilna Joley should play Dr.Cable. For the people who say the people on the cover should play Tally thheese books came out around 2005. I think David should be played by Chord Over street (sam from glee anyone) :D. I think Peris should be plyed by Lucas Grabeel. (He might be to old but I am still thinking) Or Unknown actors. After all they are just regular kids…or at atleast it started that way. I know this is a long post so rember my first idea please natural born pretties books!
    I also think peole read post with lost of smileys so
    😀 P 😀 L 😀 E 😀 A 😀 S 😀 R 😀 D 😀 😀 😀 😀 :D!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    -♥ Smokie Shelby

  1866. ^ Sorry I pressed sumit twice but hey now I’m 1864 AND 1865th comment!!! Now the 1866 comment too!

  1867. Sorry I keep commenting but what about Sandra Bullock for Dr.C? ok no more comenting I am dizzy making I know!!

  1868. so ur last update was in 2009 and it is now 2011 whats the latest with whole UGLIES movie? alot of people are waiting and really wanna know including meee!!! thank you ! =]

  1870. This passage that he wrote was in june of 2009 so I highly dout that there will be a movie made from it.. and thats upsets alot of people but its true, I love the books just as much as the next person.

  1872. I loved the series and i think the movie will be great,but some of the cast i never pictured as the characters.

  1875. OMg i wanna be one of the new uglies in the scene with tally and shay in the library! lol. I love the books.

  1876. So happy. I hope all goes well. Also on youtube, many people has already made trailers to the movie check it out. Thanxz!

  1878. I love these books so much but I would be very upset if a movie was made. I feeel like no movie could possibly be even close to as good as the books are, and i would be devastated. When everyone reads a story they develop their own image of the world that the book creates, no movie could ever correctly depict each persons interpretations and might therefore negatively affect what each person thinks or sees in their head when they read each book. In my personal opinion books were meant to be read and not watched, making this wonderfully written series into a series of movies would deplete the magic of Scott Westerfeld’s descriptions and beautiful manipulation ofwritten words. Turning these books into movies would ultimately cause teenagers to read the books less because they could simply go see the movie. I am a huge fan of this series, but I would be very upset if a movie was made.

  1879. I love these books so much but I would be very upset if a movie was made. I feeel like no movie could possibly be even close to as good as the books are, and i would be devastated. When everyone reads a story they develop their own image of the world that the book creates, no movie could ever correctly depict each person’s interpretations and might therefore negatively affect what each person thinks or sees in their head when they read each book. In my personal opinion books were meant to be read and not watched, making this wonderfully written series into a series of movies would deplete the magic of Scott Westerfeld’s descriptions and beautiful manipulation ofwritten words. Turning these books into movies would ultimately cause teenagers to read the books less because they could simply go see the movie. I am a huge fan of this series, but I would be very upset if a movie was made.

  1880. I love it 🙂 I think when tally turns pretty, Emily Browning should play her, she’d be a PERFECT pretty 🙂

  1881. oh my gosh a month ago i started reading the books. AND THEIR AMAZING!!!!! i love tally but then i also hate her. You know cuz she betrayed her bestfriend jsut so she could go with Peris. 🙁

    Anyway I love the series and really hope they make a movie!
    Kudos to Scott! ur an amazing writer!
    ahhhhhh i cant wiat!!!! (even though its been 2 years since they posted that they were going to make the movie:(
    Hang in there lovley ladies! nh

  1882. I gave been waiting for this movie since i read the book, i will just die if they don’t make it!! i personally think a 3-d movie experience would be best, especially with all the hover-boarding scenes and such…

  1883. I think its a wonderful idea for amovie! I’ve been wating for them to make it a movie for ages! Can’t wait to see those wonderful books on the big screen. I’m dying to know where and when the auditions are going to be! Mr. Westerfeld even if your bookos don’t become movies your works of art will be forever displayed, loved, and read in my room (and many others I’m sure) 😀

  1884. Hi! I think a really important thing for the movie is not to try make the characters seem too ugly by our standards so that they look obviously pretty when they turn into pretties, like how when Tally is in the smoke and looks through the old magazines- and people we find gorgeous now look incredibly plain to them. So Tally, Shay and all the other uglies would look like us, but pretties would need to look so out-of-this-world stunning like we have never imagined, same with the specials but with a major scare factor to them. Anyway when this movie is made its gonna no doubt be awesome, it would be hard to mess up a story this good!!!

  1885. I think this movie is going to be awesome!!!!!!!!!!! I can’t wait! I’m dying to know when and where the auditions are going to be held because I’ve always wanted to get into acting but I’m not sure how I would do that. To be in this movie would be like a dream come true! If anyone has any idea on how to let people know that I AM AVAILABLE FOR ACTING please post it on here so I know! I know this blog has nothing to do with acting but I’m not just here for aacting ideas I’m also here for some tips for the movie. I think that Anglina Jolie would be awesome for the part of Dr. Cable! It would be insanely cool. Or maybe Kiera Knightly.. But I’m just spitbaling right now. The ideas will keep coming! Also if this movie is made, try as much as possible to stick to the story line! follow the book as much as you can! Is almost as if you have already written the script! just follow the book and I know it will be a huge hit! And I don’t know what you’re doing with music, but I personally think that the music in amovie effects the moods of the people in the audience greatly. For example in, lets say Star Wars (thats the only thing thats coming to mind right now, I just watched it) when Anakins mother dies they play that weird sinister evil sounding music and you totally can see that Anakin is turning to the dark side! Or in Titanic when the boat is sinking, the guys who play the violins and stuff play that sad classical music and it totally effects your mood! You start to feel really sorry for all the people because the music totally goes with the sinking of the boat.. If you’re planning on getting unknown actors, make sure they know how to act PLEASE! One bad actor can ruin an entire movie. But I know you’ll pick good actors 😀 Theres more ideas where this came from. You’ll here from me later, good luck!

  1886. If you do make a movie id like to see more updates more recently, read the series 4 times and all the other books my public library has, i would’nt call my self pretty but i don’t look like a nerd at least in my opinion

  1887. ok…i keep hearing people all over the internet saying that the uglies will be made into a movie this year. i SERIOUSLY hope that they are right and my hopes aren’t going up for nothing!!!! PLEEEASE!!!
    Twilight was a great book, but it wasnt meant to become a movie as much as THE UGLIES is!!! 😀 😀 😀 😀

    oh…and by the way, Anelina Jolie would make the best Dr. Cable….sorry but thats da trooth

    i know this sounds a little weird, but i feel that Zac Effron could make a good David. i also think Shia Labouf could too.

    wutevs!! but PLEEEASE, when (yes when, because i really want this book onscreen and it’s killin me that its not!) you make the uglies into a movie don’t screw up the story like they did with Twilight (which was an amazing book too) 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀

  1888. I think that scott westerfeld should post when the movies being made and let us the people that read the books try out, i would tatally try for shay or tally, or any of the crims that get turned cutters really lol, i would love to se4e how they do the movie if they do, bet thell end up screwing it all up and animating it, that would really suck though. But i really hope it get made into a movie this year

  1890. EW angelina jolie would not suit evil lol
    but PENN BADGLEY AS DAVID !
    same big forhead, crooked smile and dark haiir, WOULD BE PERFECTT!!!!

  1891. Yeah, I’d really prefer unknown actors and actresses for the main roles! I don’t know how much it’d put me off to see some over glam/hyped hollywood gal or guy up there, it’s ruin my day, lol.

    I don’t know about Angelina Jolie as Dr. Cable… I kind of imagined just..I don’t know, but she didn’t look anything like her. xD

    And oh God, I don’t know how the pretty thing is gonna turn out, you’d need some INSANELY beautiful people to pull that one off if the ‘uglies’ weren’t all that ‘ugly’. And please, please, PLEASE don’t airbush so much it looks animated. For the love of all that is good, I really do not want to see that happen – not that you’d let that happen, right Westerfeld? d;

    Anywaaaayyy, whether this movie happens or not, these books are amazing. Even though I’ve only read the first one so far…But I’m broke and I can’t find these books anyway (darn you local waterstones/wh smith store), so it’s not like I didn’t try.

    And is anybody else a huge Croy fan? No? Moving onnn….

    I can’t help but be worried for this movie, though. The books are amazing and, personally, I think they’d be quite hard to live up to. But then again that’s presuming the majority of people who’ll see the movie will have read the book…

    Whatever happens, I’m bookmarking this blog. Uh, I mean I’ve bookmarked this blog.

  1892. I’ve seen some sites that say the movie will come out in 2011, but if they don’t even have a cast yet, there’s no way that will happen this year. Hopefully, we’ll get to see it within the next few years!!

    I really think that for the uglies and specials they will have to do some effects with the computer, because there is NO WAY they’ll be able to find actors who can pull off the incredible beauty that the Pretties and Specials have. Especially for Tally and Shay, who are the main characters. But they HAVE to be careful!!!! They can’t go too overboard in making them perfect, otherwise it’ll just look cheesy!!!!!! but they could prolly make their faces more symmetrical, with the big eyes, perfect skin, etc. It could really help!!! 😀 😀

    …and there is no way Zac Efron could pull off David. Sorry, but its true!!!

  1894. ok so i have read the books a thousand times and i cant put them down they should totally make a movie i would watch them over and OVER agin 🙂

  1895. Sara Palin would make a great Dr. Cable she looks just like how I imagined Dr. Cable to look

  1896. I lust started to read the books! Im still on the 1st one! It was hard to understand at 1st But i love it!!!!!!!!!! I lookes it you and google.com and they have movie trailers!!!!! A movie! COme one really!!! Erg!!!! I wanna see it!!!! But is it out yet!!!! Oh my oh my!!!

  1897. hah Scott-la thts funny… i love this series i wish i lived in this series! why cant we meet actual people like zane, david, or peris! these books make me hate the world i live in right now!! the movie will be so EPIC! i do agreee with shay and tally being unknown, i just hope the movie is either how i saw it or even better!!!

  1898. Updates would be much appreciated!
    Have a bet with a friend about the movie and I want my $5!!!
    love the book so much and greatly anticipating the film, whenever/if ever it may come out!

  1900. i totally agree
    penn badgley perfectly fits the character of david ! especialllyyy his crooked smile!
    he should definately be david.
    i also agree that shay should be an unknown actress but not tally, shes the main character. as for doctor cable, i think Jaime Pressly would be perfectt! shes who i always pictured her to be.
    also for zane, definately not zac effron… that would ruin the movie.

  1901. I’m really excited to see the movie i heard from my friend that it was coming out in 2011 in the summer but everyone said the same thing in like 2006 so idk but i would really like to know when and where and everything about it cuz i will see it the night it comes out and i just really dont want a crappy movie that everyone says the book is better i want it to be perfect so that everyone in my class will understand my obsession with the books i have read all 4 like 5 times lol!!! i also understand how it would be a little hard to make a movie about all that cuz its all futuristic but still they have done a lot of special effects to lots of movies so ya!!!!!

  1902. i literally freaked out when i heard about this i had to take deep breaths to calm myself down

  1903. OMG i LOVE the Uglies series!!! best books i have ever read. ilike the Extras too(: the Uglies would makes an amazingg movie. i would so go to the movies to see it!!! 😀

  1904. I cant wait for the movie. I just have one suggestion, i was researching and I think Emily Browning should play Tally. She looks a lot like the character on the cover and I think she could play the part very well.

  1906. out of the three bookds, uglies was definitely my favorite, and i would love to see it become a movie! 🙂 i think just in general this book was practically MADE to be a movie. the setting is just perfect for that kind of thing. all i know is this, though. they better not screw it up if they DO decide to make it a movie!

  1908. ps about a comment that i saw earlier, i think that angelina jolie would make a decent dr cable. thats not really how i pictured her but i think she would be pretty good for the role. but theyd need to make her look like they made her look in salt with the straight black hair. but i dont think they should put many more famous actresses/actors into the movies, ESPECIALLY not in the main roles. that would just completely ruin the whole movie for me! 🙁

  1910. all the actors MUST be extremely gorgeous, Or i am going to be SO angry, the books are based on attractiveness, so yeah, they need to be amazingly beautiful

  1911. I am really curious where that David Luver dude went maybe he ate too many muffins and had a heart attack but ya they will have to spend a lot of time with make up and all that for the pretties

  1912. I know these comments were over a year ago.. But is there still a chance of making this a movie? That would be totally happy-making!
    I’m sure if this was a movie, I wouldn’t have to be a Cutter to get icy!

  1913. so like are plans for the uglies movies still going ahead? 🙂 that would be so bubbly!
    an Uglies movie would be totally happy-making!
    keep us updated Scotty-wa 😛

  1914. So, like, is it still going to be a movie? Because that is totally Happy-making! It is going to make make tons of people Bubbly! Make sure to make Tally-wa and Shay-la just like they’re described. That would be, like, so bubbly-Making. If you don’t make them how they should be, it would be totally bogus! :'( But keep updating Scott-la!
    ~Katie-wa

  1915. Somehow try to make the Pretties, like, big-eyed and beautiful. If they look like norms, that would be bogus.

  1916. Sooo, i have just started reading these books. I’m on the third one and after i read the first one i was lie, dudeeee, theyve gotta me this into a movie. My teacher recomended this book to me and i LOVED it. I’ll be so sad if they dont make it into a movie ):

  1917. You know I am just saying that ZAC efron should be zane, peris is aron johanson, shay is Katy perry, tally is Olivia wilde,David is Logan lerman, Andrew is Taylor lauther,and Dr cable is Sarah Jessica parker but for the uglies shay and tally are complete nobody people

  1918. OMG I JUST SEEEN THIS I JUST FINISHED SPECIALS! Even though this is from 2009 and They were just preparing it and I know your probably bothered by these all the time but I’m an aspiring actress and I’ve taken classes At John Casablancas Modeling and Acting Center I’ve been in it for over a year and if you would find ANYTHING at all about casting please e-mail me at StevieRaefromHoN@Gmail.com
    thank you so much
    – Lindsey-Wa

  1919. heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeey ! ohmygosh , i am IN LOVE* with the uglies series & im doing a school slideshow for the book ! if there is going to be a movie & acting auditions PLEASE***** send me an e-mail about it ! please ! thank you so much , <3

  1920. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I cant believe it I have read the whole series in just a week! They are so addicting! if there is going to be a movie about it Im very interested, ive been acting for a while…. plus i think i look like tally too. (giggle giggle). i soooo want to live in the smoke! thanks for everything you do!!! =) e-mail me if any acting auditions PLEASE!

  1921. hey scott-la im very excited if there is going to be a movie!!!!!! I have read them more than once and it would be soooo happy-making if there is a movie. I’ve been acting for a long time I bet your so tired of all the actress wanna b’s but I feel that maybe I could do it (plus I don’t mind kissing David or Zane a few times!) =) I’ve also done modeling too… thanks Scott-la hope it turns out a movie post up if there are any acting auditions !!!!!!!!

  1922. OMG! I’d seriously watch this movie like 30 times a day if it was made! I really hope that this is still going to happen, and I know like the perfect person to play Tally, Me! 😛 Just kidding 😛 It would be amazing if this movie was made, like I’d literally have a heart attack 😀 Please keep trying to get it done, because it would make me like the happiest person on the planet 😀 (I’ve read all the books once, and I’m planing on reading them all again :P)
    P.S. If the movie thing doesn’t work out then you should write another book 😛 I’ve got some interestiong ideas about it.. 😛

    I thinks you’re seriously awesome Scott-la please E-mail me if there are acting auditions 😀
    Sincerly, Nikala-wa 😀

  1923. Oh yeah, and I think that Milla Jovovich would make an amazing Dr. Cable 😛 Especialy with her make up done like it was in the movie ‘Zoolander’ 😛 Just saying 😀

  1924. R yall gonna make it a movie?!?!?! Cuz if this was posted by Scott in 2009 then theyve had like 2 years to make a movie! Plz tell me they are making them cuz i LOVE the books like ALOT!!!! So i dont think u people should b wondering who its gonna b since nothing has been posted since 2009 and its 2011

  1925. I believe that this movie could have an amazing making, I’m looking forward to it being finished. Ive read the series several times and i have several people that i think could be casted as the characters. I’m sure I’m going to get quite irritated at because i think that all the characters should be actors but not well known, I’m sorry but i don’t think Kristen should star in the movie. i believe that every movie has there actors who can fit the characters perfectly and thats what we need. Granted, I’ve never Casted a role irl but in my head i have casted many people to certain roles
    Sincerely
    Skinny

  1926. wow its been a while since the last update! aww so sad! i hope it gets made into a movie! ive pressured so many people into borrowing my books hahaha and everyone loves them!! it would be a bummer if no progress has been made, but no matter what happens at least we still have the books=] i like the movie ive made in my head anyway… it would make billions hahaha
    best wishes(^_^)-maria jay!<3

  1927. I wish that every book of Scott Westerfeld’s were made into movies. But I would have a hard time to choose which one is going to be my favorite one. Even though I only read a few series by him but he is so amazing that he should make movies.

  1928. ok. so, i had to read Uglies for a book project for school and i fell in love with this book. also, i cant wait to read the rest of the novels and watch the movie!

  1929. OMG AN UGLIES MOVIE?!?!?!?! that is sooo cool! no offence 2 ppl who like kristin stewart, but plz do not cast her as tally cuz she’s already so famous from twilight and all that. there should rlly be a midnighters movie 2!!!!

  1930. Hi… I know, I know, this is, like, two years late. But at least I’m responding! Seriously, DO NOT mess this movie up for us! I would love to see one, but if it’s fake, I’ll be upset. You would be scared.

  1931. yey!! uglies will be the best movie ever!!! love the series and can’t wait for the hopefully movie!!:)

  1932. DR.Cable= Angelina Jolie
    Peris(or Paris)= Johnny Depp
    Shay= Selena Gomez
    Tally= (I personally don’t know)

    this would make a GREAT MOVIE

  1936. If we post 5000 comments, will you make a movie!!!!!!!????
    I’ll post over one thousand!!!!
    I WANT A MOVIE!!!!

  1938. youtube rox

    i saw commercials for the movie
    it doesn’t look very good though

    they might be fake

    do a good job

  1942. This was honestly the best series Ive ever read. it moved me so much that i began to think like the characters in the book and agree with some of the politics. when i was sixteen i wanted to buy an island just to call it new pretty town and build it. i was going to write to you and try to make it happen. ha-ha. no but in all seriousness i really truly hope this works out.
    and if there are auditions do let us know. i would do most anything to be Tally. or one of Dr. Cables specials.

  1943. PLEASEEEEEE!!!!!! make a movie for these series, they really need to be made, like seriously, all these comments meant hat people really want a movie, and I REALLY WANT A MOVIE, pleaseeeee, makea movie, from what i can see the last update from the author was in 2009, i may be wrong, but seriously, i know so many peole who want a movie, for these series, everyone who has read the series loves them, SOSOOOO PLEASE MAKE A MOVIE ASAP:&

  1944. NAD NOT TO MENTION THE SERIES HAVE GOT ME CAUGHT, i wish there were more series, i read these all in less than three weaks, so call me a freak if you want, but im crazy about them, soo please, so make a movie, or i will make you make a movie.LOL

  1945. I know that almost my ENTIRE SCHOOL has read these books because everyone i know have said that i am in them!!! SOOOOOOO many people have read these books!! if you make a movie it will be waaaaayyy better than twilight because we have alll been believers from the start!!! I love the series so much and find that i have so much in common with the characters.. especially shay!!! MAKE IT A MOVIE!!!!! FOR ALL OF US PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE MAKE IT A MOVIE!!! This is the best book in the world and if you do it right the movie will be the best ever!! And PLEASE give your fans the inside scoop on auditions too!!!!!!
    okay soo after i wrote that i went up and looked at some more comments…. for Tally, Shay, and the other important characters pick unknown actors and actresses!!!! and please include the LITTLE details too!!! They really make a difference!!!
    <3 always!
    shay 🙂

  1946. Ugh I hope this wont be like The Series of Unfortunate Events movie! I loved those books when I was a child and was soooo disappointed by the movie! Mostly because of the actors and also because they skipped a ton of stuff! If this movie is actually going to work out please acknowledge the fact that movies were the main actors/actresses(like Tally and Shay) are not well known and then another like Doctor Cable is well known turns out really boring! Just like having Jim Carrey and then those other hardly know people in the Series of Unfortunate Events! Anyway Im so excited!

  1947. I would LOVE to try out! Please tell us information about auditions. Can I audition on a recording to send in? I read all the books. I tell my friends. It is one of my favorite books! Thanks!
    ~Mel

  1948. i think there should be a movie soon i mean they have but out 7 monies of harry potter and 3 of the twilight books and this one is better than both

  1949. I cant wait to hear about the casting calls(if there is any). i would die to tryout! it would be a fairy tale!

  1950. So far I believe…..
    Tally: Ashley Green( or someone similar looking to her..)
    Shay: Someone new, tan, big brown eyes, skinny.
    Peris: Zac Efron agreed! or Elijah Wood, someone cute but not HOT
    David: Someone hott lol and mayyybe new? New would be good.
    Zane: Someone Asian XD? hahaha
    Dr.Cable: Pedi from The Lovely Bones( Mr.Harvey)

    🙂

  1951. Please make the movie! I’m a Junior in High School and i read this series in 6th grade. I loved this series!:) Once i found out that there was a possibility that there would be a movie, I was psyched! It said it would be out in 2011. But tonight, when searching the Midnighters Series, I realized i should check any postings of the Uglies Movie. I came upon a site that said the movie was cancelled! 🙁 but i found this and hoping that its not true… PLEASE make it! I’d definately watch it! p.s. it better not be one movie with all four books together (like they tried to do with Avatar:The Last Air Bender, that movie was horrible! and i Loved the cartoon series.)

  1953. PLEASE make this series into a movie! I’m on the last book and I have not been able to put the book down (just long enough to write this lol). I agree with all the thoughts so far about the characters. Tally and Shay should be new people and Peris should be pretty, but not totally hot or everyone will want Tally to end up with him not Zane or David. Zane should be someone completely HOT like Alex petteyfer. 🙂 You have to make this a movie!

  1954. I think that Tally should be played by Debby Ryan!!
    And I also agree on no Twilight people in this movie.

  1955. I REALLY don’t want any famous people for this movie. I would like it if the UNKNOWN player of Tally-Wa will look similar to how the Tally-Wa on the books looks. But none of that ‘Get a different actor/actress for the second and beyond movie’ crap. The movie will be a HUGE rip-off if that happens. Also, I think the idea of a movie is good. It may lead to technological advances. The guy who invented the cellphone? Star trek fan. He wanted a ‘communicator device’. The dude who invented the MRI? Also a Sci-Fi fan. We may end up with hoverboards and clean energy in a few years if this movie is made!!!!!!!!! Even better, pretties and specials. What do you mean when you say the specials have razors in their voices? Like is their voice warped or something?

    Moira-Wa.
    P.S, have you ever seen any of the TV show sanctuary? You can buy episodes from ITunes. In season three, episode ‘Awakening’, Afina’s voice is how I imagine the Special’s voices now.

  1957. I honstly think this is a great idea. I am currantly readding the uglies seirses for school and it is AMAZING!!! ive never read something so amazing in my life. The reasons i tink the book should become a movie is because forst of all you guys all probly know the harry potter series and the twilight saga, well you problly know that harry potter is done with anf twilight is coming to an end and the uglies series kind of remind me of them so it will give us another movie series to get hooked on. another reason is in my school all us girls have to read the uglies series and we are all loving it so there you got like 200 girls to go and see the movie. the last reason i think these books would make such a great movies is because if there anything like the book then they will just be amazing. so i hope this comment helps for any desictions needed.

  1958. This will definately not be like the Twilight series. The Uglies series is beyond incredible.

  1959. Hey! im a huge fan of the uglies! When will the moovie be coming out i really want to see it!!! THIS SERIES IS SOOOOOOO MUCH BETTER THAN THE TWILIGHT SERIES!!!!

  1960. This is soo cool! Now ill be able to put a face on Tally! Just PLEASE choose the characters right. It’s incredible how this book is spreading all over the world. Im from Chile! I went on an exchange to Brazil and people there were reading them too!

  1961. I am a huge fan of these books. I think you, Scott Westerfeld, are an incredible author. When reading the books, I literally could not put them down!

    I am a 15 year old actress as well. The second I read the first chapter of Uglies, I dreamed of playing Tally or Shay, (although I feel my features fit more Tally). If anyone happens to see this, with information of auditions, please let me know.

    I know it’s far-fetched asking for information on auditions, and actually receiving a response, but I figure I might as well give it a try. I have experience in acting, dancing, singing, and playing piano.
    Performing means the world to me.
    Thank you

  1962. Hey There!!!! I Think The Scenery Should Be Shot In New Zealand Or Somewhere Like That It Has Amazing Views And As Shown In The Lord Of The Rings Can Really Make Films Great And Realistic … Im So Happy That This Books Going To Be A Movie Because It Has Such A Great Message And If Its A Film So Many People Will Get The Moral And Feel Better About Themsleves Like Tally Does Through Her Jounerey O fBeing An Ugly And With David … I Think The Actors Should Be Resembly Pretty Just To Show How Society Has Affected Their Brains And To Show That You Shouldnt Have To Change For Anyone Because No One Can Fit To The Extreme Beauty That Everyone Seems To Want …
    Your Books Are Amazing And I Cant Wait To See The Movie EEK!!!!

  1963. My husband and I own a movie theater. I can understand and appreciate hollywoods tactics in going about movie deals such as this one. That said, I strongly feel this would be a great story to put on film. This journey offers something for everyone in a manner that is condusive to a family setting. It would be a great mistake if this is not picked up by a studio at some point.

  1964. i didn’t even know that a movie was being considered or “optioned” i always thought it would be a good movie except for one thing..How are u supposed to cast pretties if everyone in the world are uglies? it would definitely be tricky. ya ya ya, i know there is make up and masks but wont it look like fake? and the same with the specials..sorta.

  1966. Awww man! my friend would make the perfect David!!! or atleast how I pictured him 😛 but he’s 15 haha but he looks way older! hmm…his voice is also A bit high… maybe his voice will get deeper before casting, he’s an exellent actor! the best i’ve seen besides famous ones!!!!!

  1969. this will be a good movie if and only if they dont leave out important parts of the book or add anything that has nothing to do with the book

  1970. Just started readin the books and they r AMAZING and just saw the trailer teaser and I want the movie to come out sooooooo bad.

  1971. I would make a great Shay, even though I’m going to be thirteen in November. I am tall and a very talented actress. I have already started practicing hay monologue. I jut love her character.

  1972. I’ve only read the first book (don;t worry, I’ll read the rest). It’s really amazing how devoted all everyone on here is. 2 years after the post, and people still ocmmenting. The only other blog I use is Heather Brewers, and poeple thre usually only comment on the most recent 3 or 4 post. Kudos to everyone who sticks with it.

  1973. I would love to be castes in this movie I have done theater work and i absolutely love all your books pleas have open auditions all over the country and in phillidelphiai I would play any part and any role would make my day I hope that hollywood people don’t mess up this movie like everything else it would be soo bubbly if uglies does get made into a movie I hope the entire series does too -katiewa

  1974. i love the book so damn much i really cant wait to see the movie i think that this book turns into a movie could be a HUGE success just like twilight keep up the amazing work Scott i really live the uglies pretties specials && extras but i really think there needs to be another book because the ending of the extras wasn’t where it should have ended

  1975. i would love to play tally or shay but i dought that an African American will have any type of role in the movie i think the movie should be more diverse

  1976. Scott you are one of my absolute favorite authors! Honestly I finished reading the Uglies series so darn fast I amazed myself, I just could not put the book(s) down! I read this series some time last year and it has been my allll time favorite series and still is! I would love for it to become a movie!! Please let us know sooon!

  1977. I am just about to start the book…but it annoys me because i am trying to set a date to finish it by so i can watch the movie…but there is no MOVIE DATE! please just say that it will be in novemeber this year…or early next year! Just give a date! I am so anxious to know!!!!!

  1978. OMgosh! When my sister first let me read this triology i fell in love with it!! I told her that this will make a great movie and now everyone’s dream is going to come true!! I really can’t wait for this movie to come out. Thanks to Scott Westerfeld for creating this amazing story line! Big fan!! n much support to the movie and Westerfeld!
    Take Care!
    Lilo

  1979. Hi Scott! I just finished reading Specials 1.31 hours ago. Lots of stuff happened, and my heart is still racing! Excersising, but not exercising… Anyways, it has taken me three days to read all three of your books. (that means they rock) I think that if you showed like a real face or something, it would be cool. A few questions, though… Is the guy on the cover of Specials supposed to be Zane? Or Fausto? Or Ho? … And does Extras have any of the characters in the first 3 books in it? And where do you live? Australia? Is that why it makes the comments australian time? Will you be flying over to Vancouver,BC,aCanada anytime soon?I will be the first to get tickets to your writers talk thingy. I like writing too, and I know you are thinking that a person who writes words with no detail and says words like like and thingy doesn’t sound like a writer, but trust me, I am just in comment mode. AndI am not too fond of blogging and typing . You are Special! Get it?hahaha…. Oh, and if you make the movie, two things: 1, can it not be too scary? Like, not as scary as Harry Potter? I am a tween… 11.9 years old, to be exact. Don’t scare me, I’ll run and hide! And 2, I think it is great that you are along a movie! I can watch it more times to improve business, and get my friends to, too. Then, you have to make a second, and third, and fourth movie! And also, can yu keep on going with the uglies series?…I can’t put it down.

    Wanna know a little secret? I hate, x1000000000000000000.2, adventure books. They are scary and creep me out. Your book is the closest I have gotten to adventure, and yours are the only ones, so be honored! ( epic music in background)

    Oh, and I am not the only fan! In my school, Crofton House School, which is a private school for girls in Vancouver, which you can Google, we have these book crazes, and everyone from grade 6-7 obsesses over that book or series for 5months. It just happens!vand Hunger games was the last craze, ndit died down, andyoursisthe newest craze! There was a line up of 53 people waiting to read your first book,Uglies!So I had to go out to Chapters to buy the series, but they didn’t have your last book, Extras, so I am sad now.

    Well, I guess I shouldn’t write anymore, or else I will become Ms.Chatterbox!

    Hope you read my comment. 😉

    Becca-wa

  1981. Okay here is who I think should play who

    Tally:Emily browning (I know she is a little old but would make a great tally)

    Shay:Emma Roberts

    David:Chord Overstreet

    Dr.C:Agnelina Jolie, Nicole Kidman, or Helena bonham carter

    Peris:Adam Gregory

    Zane:Chace Crawford

    Maddy:Keri Russle

    Az:I really don’t know

  1982. Making the Uglies into a movie would be my dream come true. It has been one of my favorite book series since I read it in the 9th grade. The books were written so well that they could so easily be adapted into a movie. The only problem is that the world in the series is so much more advanced than ours that special effects will definitely be a key part in the movie. I just hope that the special effects aren’t overwhelming. I also think that the casting should be similar to the way The Hunger Games was cast. In a way so that the actors are known, but not overly so. The Uglies should be presented to the world in an amazing way, just like it was with the novel.

  1983. This is a must read. Yesterday, I finished reading the Hunger Games, but it isn´t really based on a real thing, which makes Uglies much more intriguing. It is officially the best book I´ve ever read, (believe me, I,ve read mountains of books). I got courious about it, because all the brain-wiring stuff, which is both imaginative and unbearably real. If we know the parts in the brain that are responsible for creativity,agressino, etc, It is a bit scary, not the book, but the idea that this CAN HAPPEN. Just look at how advanced technology is! About the movie, I feel that they should do it just like it is in the book, since it´s all been laid out, but if they do film the movie, I hope they get it right. I dream of being a film maker, but I guess I´m too young. Anyways, if those film makers discard it, I´ll do what I can to get there and film it. The Uglies series RULES!

  1984. I have just the song for the action parts if it ends up being a series like harry potter for example i have this song for specials “In for the kill” by la roux check it out.

  1985. Ok I know I’m a little late to read this but I have had it bookmarked and
    YAY I have been waiting for this thanks Scott-la!!
    Would there be a movie for each book?

  1986. OMG! When my friend and I read this we totally freaked out!!!! OMG OMG! But then we realized that this was written in 2009, so this is popo not gonna happen
    :(. BOOOO! GO UGLIES!!!

  1987. Here’s the deal: If we get to 2000 comments can this be a movie? OBVIOUSLY 2000 people will actually care about this, so yeah. MAKE A MOVIE AT 2000!!! PLZ!!

  1988. thats a good idea, karen.
    MAKE A MOVIE!!!
    This is so exciting-making!! (do they use that in the book)???
    OMG!!! Only like 10 more comments~~`

  1989. Every single girl at my school has read the entire series. No joke (I go to an all-girls school so practically everyone LOL!!) We even made a fake movie, we did a school play production and it rocked! The script was almost word for word, but we couldn’t have hover boards, just skateboards (BOR-ING!) This would make a great GREAT!!! movie!! do it! Thousands of people want to do it so do it!!

  1991. hey guys:
    im in LUV with the harry potter series and i never thought anything would be better.
    i went to like all the premiere parties and lovethem. but, uglies is better. I would stand outside in the rain for a month to wait in line for that darn movie!!!! YEAH!!

  1992. Omg I would wait FOREVER for this movie! How icy would it be to be an extra?!
    Scott-la read my emails. Let’s try to hit 2000 comments show him you care come on I am number 1992! Only 8 more!!!!!

  1993. You’re going to have so many girls wanting to audition. This series was incredible and like mos of these comments have said, I could see it as a movie. Good luck Scott! I’ll be waiting for the opening day!

  1994. I personally feel that the age of the actress playing dr. Cable wouldn’t be much of an issue unless she’s obviously over 50. Makeup is incredible and regardless I feel dr. Cable should appear fierce! For some reason I see sigourney weaver! She just has such a strong face and is in her own way beautiful but not in the usual way–which I believe is necessary to the part.

    And as for making the uglies “ugly”, I completely disagree. I think they should be just like any other person, normal. The uglies in the books aren’t actually hideous or grotesque, they only seem so by societies standards. If anything, the prettiest are the ones that really need to be played up! Show the difference between the two by exaggerating their beauty instead of making the uglies, well ugly.

    And I very deeply believe that Tallys character would be ruined by nearly every famous actress. We all already have an idea aout mostnactors and actresses. We already see them as other characters. Harry potter wouldn’t have been the same with some heart throb castes as Harry.

    Tally needs to be true to her form–unique and once invisible.

    Just my opinion 🙂

  1995. Wow… I just read all the comments and i’m am so excited. I have always thought of myself as a Tally; rebellious and strong minded. I’ve been looking at the bogus to bubbly book, and from the drawing of the hover board been trying to make my own. If you ever want any ideas let me know. I love you all, my bubbly heads!

  1996. i am a huge fan and have always known a movie will be produce . At first when i first saw the book i thought this isnt really my cup of tea after reading the amazing trilogy the midnighters again by scott westerfeld so i started reading Uglies and fell in deep love with the way it was structured and how realistic it all seemed considering the fact that it is a completely science fiction novel, anyhow after id read the books i thought wow this beats twilight and the hunger games put together and was hugely impressed at how the books have become an important part of my life … Ive got a feling the films may spoil the books a bit but strongly believe that they will not be flawed in anyway and would be willing to auditon myself as it would be geat to pe part of the production of such an extravagant movie that i am sure has touched millions of people around the world. Scott Westerfeld… You are an inspiration to all.

  1997. I would kill to play Shay. Part of the reason I’m going to film school is so that one day…if I’m lucky, I’ll be able to act as a character I love from a book I adore.
    And I adore these books, and Shay’s my favourite character. Besides that, I’d make an awful Tally.

  1998. So I deffinately love this whole series:) scott your a genius! I really hope to see the movies if they ever do exist:)

  2000. I think Finn from glee would make an AWESOME david!!!!! i like Jolie as Cable and for Tally, i think Saoirse Ronan would be perfect

  2001. I am soo excited to see this book turned into a movie. I think it would grab the watchers attention right away. I belive this will become a great success; there has been many readers reading this book and plenty of my friends have loved it.

  2002. OMG YES!! Pleaseeee make it into a movie! I read them a couple of years ago and was always saying they would be awesome movies (if done right of course)

  2004. @2,000
    In sorry I watch glee too and UH HUH Finn would totally ruin the passion and love for Tally-wa……Finn is my least favorite

  2008. I agree with a lot of people but i think you have to be extra careful to MAKE SURE THEY DON’T CUT THE BEST PARTS OUT OF THE MOVIE!!!!

    Another thing to watch out for would be to make sure the actors e.g. Dr. Cable should not be someone too skinny or else it will loose the whole effect. Same with all the cast specials. Because after what they said in the book about crazy skinny rusties then you shoulden’t include them!

    Don’t make them all look like airheads like they did with twilight (snore/puke… get me out of this theartre!!!)
    The city has to look amazing so make sure it’s as awsome as it sounds in the book!

    Great job by the way big fan, DEFINATLY THE BEST SERIES/BOOK EVER!!!!!

  2009. I do think Peris should be someone famous. since he’s first introduced as a pretty, but if the film has a flashback of him and Tally, have someone you can dirty up…may seem girly but honestly, a pretty boy like Jesse McCartney would be perfect. He’s an excellent actor, voice and otherwise.

  2010. I just finished this series,and they are the best books ever!!!!!
    I think it would make the best movie EVER!!!:D

  2013. I think it should be a movie. It would be way better than twilight or the hunger games. They’re so good when I finished the last book I stated crying my eyes out.:)

  2016. i think the movie should have like cheesy moments but not to much make it how… how the books say….i love uglies. this is the best book i read of my whole life and im only 16…lol i like how scott made tally and shay charaters…also that he made david look beautiful in the book.i love the world he made in this book …its amazing. i hope the movie comes out soon and scott keep up the good work ur awsome for what you do:)

  2018. I have been waiting so many years for this! I really hope it works out and they make it good! You know what they could do that would seriously get the fans behind them for the movie? Have an open audition for the fans. Man, I would get behind that. All the way!

  2020. Man I would love to be tally!!! I’m an aspiring actress and would probably even be the right aga by the time they start casting. I’ve always noticed the similarities that tally and I have look wise. I too have small eyes, thin lips and frizzy brown hair. I feel I really connected to her because I too always wanted to be prettier than I am. I know I’m just dreaming a hopeless dream, but man would I love to play Tally!!!!

  2021. MY friend would also make a great Shay. She’s super skinny and we’ve been friends since kindergarten. We’ve acted together before (only for school plays) and we’re great together.

  2022. I have been waiting for this series to come out for so long! I’ve heard rumors going around saying it coming out late this year (2012) and I can’t help but feel it’s not true SINCE there is no official cast evidentally. Anyone want to confirm or deny this for me?

  2023. Justin Bieber would make an epic David. I would say I liked Justin Bieber but still, I think he is the right person for the job.

  2024. when will we hear more about the movie/ auditions ? im so desperate. really exited about the idea of a movie

  2025. This seems so long ago it doesn’t seem like it will happen. I want it to though. I could see Josh Hutcherson as Zane. <3

  2027. These books would be a great movie! I can’t wait till they come out! But don’t mess with the characters or plot. You need to make it exactly the way it is. It would be PERFECT! I want to know where you could audition for one of the characters. I totally want to be Tally. And when I am reading the books I feel like I am there. It is my favorite book series EVER! Scott if you are reading this I LOVE your books. Please tell us where we can audition and when. I would really love to. But I was wondering if you would use the same actress for Tally throughout the whole series or if you would get a new one for when she turns pretty or special. Keep up the good work Scott!

  2028. I think if they do decide to go with an established actress for tally, the should seriously consider casting Emily Browning. She would be great in the role.

  2029. Oh please I’ve been waiting YEARS for these books to be made into movies. As it stands the stories are amazing and changed me. I want to share them so much Ive read the whole series to more then one person, more then once! Fact is reading is time consuming and a lot of the younger generation absolutely REFUSES to read for the fun of it. I want these stories to be shared with the world, even the ignorant people who think they are too good to read them! Pleaseeeee!

  2030. omfg even thoe i wold like to see the movie i wold also love to be tally in the movie but i know im un fit for the spot but it wold be so much fun

  2032. i loved this book and think it will be a great movie. but this was posted in 2009…its already 2012 and NOTHING has been done twords making a movie

  2033. I have finished the first two books and am currently on Specials. I am dying to know what happens. I will be really sad when i finish the series, No more Tally or Shay. 🙁 But this is a really good series and i cant wait for the movie! I hope its as good as the books. You are a really great author and im looking forward to reading some of your other books. 🙂

  2034. I only read Uglies but it was really good and I am going to read the next ones. I think that Shay’s personality kind of goes with short hair. But I don’t know.

  2035. I would LOVE to have Meryl Streep as Dr. Cable, it just seems to be a fitting role for her being the so-called “evil” one but In all reality, it’s hard to tell because she is somewhat justified for her actions. And the description of Dr. Cable fits Meryl Streep perfectly!!!

  2036. I want to see this movie so bad i will do anything.. my teatcher told us if it comes out in june we can go see it

  2037. I would like to know where and when auditions will be held. I’m an aspiring actress and I would love to play the roll of Tally Youngblood. I have her general looks and it would be nice to break into the business. I am my own agent so if any one has any information write back. I’m desperately seeking this roll. Thank you.

  2038. Hey I love the fact that there is a possibility of uglies becoming a movie. I am dieing to see it! Please keep updating the status of the movie.

  2039. Hey I love this book and I bet you get this a lot but I want to be in this movie but as Shay because she reminds me of my self. So if you need a actress just email me and I will respond asap.
    actress

  2040. all of my friends say i would be perfect for tally youngbloo because i amm not really pretty but in not downright ugly either and my hair tends to be EXACTLY like they say in the book except its a dark brown.

  2042. Omg this movies going to be Rockin Ive been hoping for this movie since forever I wish the cast good luck, oh and I hope its not too cheesy and definitely not like the first twilight movie sorry If those creative people worked on it its just my honest opponion :3

  2043. Hi. I noticed this post was made in 2009. Is the movie still happening? I really hope so. I would definitely audition if I could. But even if I could not (I live in Canada) I have been excited to see it since 2005!!!
    ~P

  2044. I hope you still plan on making this movie. been a fan since 09′ been waiting ever since!!

  2045. congrats scott-la this is sooo happy-making I bet this will make an amazing movie I hope it works out cause I will be the first one in the theater this news could keep me bubbly for life!!!

  2046. I am just now reading the series but this is by far the best series i’ve ever read and i read a lot. I’ve read 195 books just this month, but this will not be the next twilight or hunger games it will be a movie in its own category. I could list everything that i think is crucial to the movie but i’m pretty sure mr.westerfeld knows what he’s doing, but i do agree that for this movie tally needs to be a fresh new young actress, I myself would love to play the part but of course that’s unlikely. Uglies has really changed my perspective on the world and the human race, being pretty is a state of mind, i don’t think that you can be pretty, you can act pretty or think pretty but its all in your head. I think the only thing you can be is yourself. Normal. Ugly.

  2047. Hi,

    I have an assignment for school and to create a 10 tracked, sound-track for the book Uglies! You guys seem very enthusiastic so i was wondering if u could help me out!!!! I have to basically choose a song for 10 scenes.. and it can be based on the character or the characters emotions, what is happening in the scene, the mood of the scene or if they character is listening to it in the book..

    I would really appreciate peoples help!!!
    and like if u suggest a song could u PLZ tell me why u said that and tell me what scene or chapter its in 🙂 thanks guys

  2048. Can’t wait!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The Uglies movie was our inspiration for our novel(still waiting to be published *hint hint*) we even tried to make our own Uglies movie (didn’t work out) well we are excited

  2049. can not wait till the movie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! if it’s ANYTHING like the books it will be amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!! the uglies series is our insperation to start writing and so far everone has said it was fate for us to write which mean you made fate!!!!!!!!! thank you!

  2051. Hi,

    I have an assignment for school and to create a 10 tracked, sound-track for the book Uglies! You guys seem very enthusiastic so i was wondering if u could help me out!!!! I have to basically choose a song for 10 scenes.. and it can be based on the character or the characters emotions, what is happening in the scene, the mood of the scene or if they character is listening to it in the book..

    I would really appreciate peoples help!!!
    and like if u suggest a song could u PLZ tell me why u said that and tell me what scene or chapter its in thanks guys

    PLEASE ACKNOWLEDGE THIS!

  2052. I am so excited for this to be made into a movie and hope that I can go to a casting call. I’m too old and too pretty (not to be vain) to play Shay or Tally, which is a real bummer, but I would love to be a part of this. I think that casting unknown people as Shay and Tally would be a really wise decision. Their careers will take off from there if the movie is good, just like with The Hunger Games.

    Hopefully they begin working on this soon.

  2054. i’ve been waiting since i was in highschool for this series to be made into movies!!! (i’m 21 now) and still am waiting! i really hope it happens someday.. i will be at the midnight premier without a doubt

  2055. i’m so exited for this movie! i really hope it comes out soon. i’ll be right there for the premier. hey movie maker people! get going on this! it’s guna be the next twilight! o, and scott sama, I just read your bogus to bubbly book, and it’s so fun! I never would have thought that there was any math involved in beauty! i guess this means i better start paying more attention to my teachures.

  2057. If this is happening, I want to know all the details about casting auditions. These books are phenomenal; I think the successes they would have as movies would be astronomical. To have Tally’s world come to life… I would LOVE to audition to be apart of this!!!!!!!!!

  2058. Hey I think this is awesome, loved your books and read them in grade 6. Just a big fan of yours 🙂
    And umm yeah, hope this is still happening and hope the movie’s a big hit 😀
    Just wishing for the best and all
    Good luck 😉

  2059. I READ ALL OF THE SERIES AND FELL IN LOVE WITH IT!!!! MY FRIENDS AND I WOULD DIE IF YOU DIDN’T MAKE A MOVIE OUT OF THIS!!!!(i also read midnighters and it was AWESOME TO READ) I WENT INSANE WHEN I FINISHED EXTRAS WISHING THAT THERE WOULD BE ANOTHER BOOK!!!!I LOVE YOUR BOOK SPECIALS!!!! IT MADE ME WANT TO BE A SPACIAL TOO!!! TALLY WAS SO AWESOME!! (but poor Zane, ilike him even if he was a bubble head) TALLY WAS ICY,STRONG,FAST AND KICKING BUTT!!! (now when i say the word “kicking” i think of aya fuse in EXTRAS) BUT PROMISE ME YOU’LL MAKE THIS MOVIE, I AM REALLY LOOKING FORWARD TO THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  2060. When i first heard of this series i thought total bogus, but now that i have started reading it, its so BUBBLY!!!! i can’t get enough of these books, seriously, i am only on the second one and the ending was so… pretty-making!!!! seriously i really want to see this as a movie and if it doesn’t come out as a movie i swear i am gonna die cause by far this is the best book series i have ever read (It was almost a tie between this and the maximum ride series) but yeah anyway THIS NEEDS TO BE A MOVIE

  2061. I think it might be hard to make the pretties. I pictured them perfect and stunning all the way. Nobody looks like that.

  2063. this is the best series i read. i would have liked a diffent ending but eather way i loved the books can’t wait for the movie!!!!!!!!<3 🙂

  2064. I have no words for this.
    If you’ll excuse me, I’m going to go fangirl to death in the corner now. :’D

  2065. ummmm this was posted three years ago… all i can say is…. this better be a movie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  2066. PLEASE SEND ME THE CAST LIST AS SOON AS POSSIBLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    Most importantly, WHO WILL BE DAVID, TALLY, AND SHAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  2067. please post when auditions for cast will be!!!! i’m an unknown actress and ready to forward my career as Tally or Shay

  2068. I really hope this makes it to the big screen. I would love to see you guys make everything come to life, even though it will be pretty hard.????????????

  2069. I want to clarify one thing, Scott you posted that 3 years ago and I’m tired of waiting. you need to update your blog…. seriously, its killing me how you don’t even care for your fans and you just get mad at them. All we want is an answer! Will this be a movie or not?

  2070. I’m sorry about that last post if I sounded angry, but i really want to see your movie “Uglies” it was honestly an amazing series, I just want more to come, I’m sorry about that last post. Thanks for righting those amazing books though. 🙂

  2071. I am already in LOVE with the book!!!! They should TOTALLY make a movie!!! It would be AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You NEEEEEEDDDDD to!!!!!!!!!! 😀 😀 😀 😀

  2072. Ya, totally? who are going to be the charecters? I would LOVE!!!!!!!! to be in the movie if you know what i mean. 🙂 at least casted as an extra. (like a littlie or something. even though i’m tewlve and tall for my age.) by the way. If you want to make the pretties you can always use computer animation. You see how well that worked for planet of the apes uprising?

  2074. i am an unknown actress and am inlove with this series…. PLEASE CONTACT ME with details for the auditions and please have them in middle tennessee or else i most likely can not audition. I AM BEGGING YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i think that i would make an awesome tally or shay or maybe even just one of the girls who has very few lines but i am obsessed with getting into this movie because i love the series more than i do the hunger games………. and i love those books. please email me when you have the auditions.
    thanks
    -mia

  2076. if it becomes a movie make sure they follow the storyline!!!! make them sign something!!!

  2077. My best friend got me hooked on these books, I think I might cry out of pure happiness. Even though nothing is definite yet, I am so excited!

  2079. I agree with 14 of the above comments, after that i lost count. but Tilda Swinton would make an excellent Dr.Cable.

  2080. agree with comment # 423’s 23rd ‘need to have’ That was my favorite scene in the whole series, don’t know why i guess it just ‘spoke’ to me.

  2082. This is super exciting!! I really like what you said about the futuristic type stuff not being to fake-looking. I really agree because if this movie turned out cheesy it would be a disaster! I think i agree with not making Tally and Shay not being like famous actresses but maybe when they turn pretty that might be a good idea. ALSO (plz don’t laugh at me) I always pictured Zane way hotter than David so make sure that all works out and all 🙂
    Plz read my post and I hope you take my advise! If this movie come out I’ll be the first one there watching it in 3D! TRUST ME! IT’S WORTH IT!! PLZ MAKE THE MOVIE!

  2083. I hope this is made a movie! I am 12 and I am soooo obsessed with this series!!!!!! PLEAAEEEESSE MAKE THIS A MOVIE!!!!!!!!!!!

  2084. I kind of agree with you ailee about the zane being better looking than david but for some reason i imagine david being a guy you love more than david eventually because he is so rough and stuff where as i see zane being kinda rebbelious looking with is died black ink hair and stuff but still very smart.

  2085. I absolutely love these books and so do many other of my friends. I really Hope it really is being turned into a movie. Is there any more updates about it?? i would seriously watch and re-re-re-re-re-rewatch this if it is a movie. Hope you read this Mr. Westerfeld and much luck!!

    -a very thankful fan ^_^

  2086. I can assure you that if it does finally become a movie, I will see it! 🙂 I always thought Emily Browning would make a good Tally. I know she’s pretty ( well, I think she is), but considering in Tally’ s world models were considered Uglies, really anyone could work.

  2087. i will make a promise right now. if this does become a movie it will be like a dream come true and i will beg all of my friends to watch it. its just so intense and thrilling that i just had to keep reading the book untill i was done with the whole seris. i wish there was a fourth book (i know theres “extras”) but the last one left me hanging off a cliff!!! i have to thank my english teacher for intorducing me to these books and thank you Mr. Westerfeld for making them!!! one last thing. i wish Mr. Westerfeld GOOD LUCK and CANT WAIT IF IT BECOMES A MOVIE!!!!!!!!!!!

    hope u see this Mr. Westerfeld

  2088. So I obviously did not just read all 2000 sum of these post, but I have read a few and I don’t understand how this is not a movie yet. I read the hunger games and fell in love and I was disappointed in the movie BUT the books are always better and you need to take it as they worked with what they could and without thinking of the books the movie was amazing, and obviously that would not be a good movie with Katniss narrating BUT the uglies would be able to be amazing with the narration from Tally and so I think even though I am in love with both series these would be able to translate in to a movie much smoother!
    Also the comment above me while i’m writing this said they didn’t like how the 4th book changed characters but I think that was the best way to go, the third book ended in an extremely satisfying way. I think it would have dragged on in another book and what I wanted to know was what it would be like for people in the city after and so I think that was the best way to go and i’m so glad you did that and with the twist of a different city to show how it was effecting people all around the world! love it!
    Also I totally cried when Zane died, I would most likely bawl if they made these movies and the third one came out!
    Love the books they got me through my senior year of high school English with so much more ease since they were so amazing! <3 <3 <3

  2089. They would have to be CRAZY not to make this a movie! Especially with Hunger Games recently out. It’s not the same but there are a lot of similarities. If they can make that, they can make Uglies! I even told RSA Films as much! At any rate the option time has hopefully passed and if there isn’t any update on this movie being produced hopefully you move onto the next bidder –preferably someone who can guarantee this will be made into a move! There has to be some way to get a good insight into that without waiting around another 2 years or so. Us fans are desperately waiting. They need to get it done before the crowd dies down.

  2091. Hi

    just a reminder that the movie should really resemble the book and not go to far off track like most books that turned into movies. The actors should also look a lot like how you described them and not look to off. I hope this movie gets made!!!!

  2092. This book Uglies is just fascinating i couldnt put it down it has to become a movie a LOT of people would die to see it I know I will!!! 🙂 having 3 movies would be better than putting 3 in 1.

  2093. So, since 2009, I have been faithfully checking up on this progress. I want so much to see this series on the big screen. I have read the books many times through thinking that everyone I know should enjoy them also. I think these books would do wonderfully on the big screen and provide a better story than the current books going Hollywood.

    Fingers crossed this happens soon, or at all.(:

  2094. Lindsay Lohan would be perfect for Tally and Shane West david!! With freckles and thin lips! I am very excited for this movie will be spectacular! 😀 😀 😀

  2095. Linday Lohan this not very old is a good option 🙁
    But Mary-Kate Olsen and Ashley Fuller Olsen are good options for Tally-wa. I love the tally!

  2096. I have a couple ideas for casting ( if you haven’t already, I don’t know much about the movie ) Tally could be Emily Osmet or maybe Danielle Panabaker. They’re both beautiful but movie makeup can make them less gorgeous? Lol but it would work for pretties and specials because they’re already pretty. Shay could maybe be Emma Roberts possibly Jennette McCurdy, Annie Poppiewell. Peris could be josh hucherdson or something because then all the girls will come running to see it in the theatures.David could be Lucas Till. That’s all I have right now but your books are AMAZING!!

  2098. and more thing, for david, mabye ben barnes or avan jogia
    and for tally, mabye taylor c allen
    and shay, victoria justice
    🙂 just a thought 🙂

  2099. I’ve read ALL your books!! and i’ve gotta say they’re all super happy/sad/suspense making! 😀 and i totally love you, and your work, and its just amazing, everything is. Isn’t reading every comment on this post since 2009 alittle time killing? annyways, just wanted to say you’re crazy amazing and im like going crazy waiting for a movie{: but yeah, pleeease make it harry potter quality and not percy jackson quality!! (the harry potter movies are so good of a quality and pretty much exspress everything thats happend in the books, but the percy jackson books were murderd by the horrable movie they made to represent it):

    i was super sad when the series ended.. oh, and honestly.. extras, was allright. and it had some REALLy good parts! but, all in all, i dont feel like it expressed the whole uglys theme. and japan? what was up with that?

    -Adam.

  2100. I am so happy that Uglies might be a movie!!! The whole reason I found this book is because my class had an assigned first book report of the year. My teacher recommended Uglies for me! I won’t tell you her full name (for privacy reasons!) but THANK YOU Mrs.R!!!

  2101. If this movie comes out (I am crossing my fingers :)) then I will do the following:
    1.SCREAM MY HEAD OFF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    2.Tell my parents they need to take me to it!!!!!
    2.5 If my parents say no, BEG them to take me!!!!!!!!!
    3.Go to the premier!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  2104. Ping to Scott-la: I am so excited for the movie!!!!!! And I know that movie people will pull thru for the ugly/pretty transition. HULLO? CAP AMERICA ANYONE? Look what they did to Chris Evans! They can just find GORGEOUS actors/actresses and work their magic to turn them “ugly.”
    PS I recommend India Eisley for Shay, at least google her. I do think her cheeks are not quite right for shay, but its not something a little movie magic can’t fix. And I wish it had been true that Lucas Till was David!!!!

  2107. I read somewhere that the rights to the book had been bought already, so i think that they’re just waiting to have better tech to make it exactly like the book and not some cheap ass shit like twilight. Great books but horrible movies.

  2108. As soon as i read this book, my first thought, this is going to be an awsome movie, my only concern, the book is set in the future i hope this movie can pull that off with out looking completely fake.

  2109. Can’t wait until the casting (if it happens)! Really hoping for open auditions! how insane would it to be in one of my favorite books?!?! Totes Bubbly ;D

  2110. Do you intend to pass many casting around the world? Because I’m french and I would try to convince you to let me a chance (for I have this kind of uglyness wich stick to my skin and this strange power in the inside)!

  2113. Although the thought of and uglies movie does excite me, I must say that it it one of my favorite series of books and as soon as I finished reaing it my first thoughts were along the lines of “somebody sure as hell better not screw up trying to make a movie of this”

  2114. The Uglies series are my favorite books ever! After i finished the first book, I went to my local bookstore and bought the 2nd book! Anyways, the Uglies have to become a movie or else i will die! seriously… if they become a movie, Scott Westerfeld will become one of the richest men alive

  2117. OMG!! I just wanted to thank Scott Westerfeld for writing these SERIOUSLY AWESOME BOOKS!!!!!!!!! This is like a huge deal- coming from me- considering the fact that I never even READ science fiction untill now!! The UGLIES SERIES IS LIKE TOTALLY ICY!! Whoever wouldn’t make this a movie is crazy because it is an AWESOME series and would be an awesome movie!!

    I AM CROSSING MY FINGERS, TOES, ARMS, AND LEGS THAT THESE BOOKS WILL BECOME MOVIES!!!!!!!!! ** THX SOOO MUCH 4 WRITING THE SERIES!!!!! IT IS AWESOME**

  2118. Scott Westerfeld, you magnificent bastard, I don’t like your Uglies series; I love it. I hope that a very safe space-time anomaly happens that allows the movie to be filmed and released in the next two days. One can hope.
    Did I mention that I love the Uglies series? I did? Well, I haven’t yet re-stated it thrice. I love the Uglies series. I LOVE THE UGLIES SERIES. I LOVE THE UGLIES SERIES!
    Thank you so much for bringing it into existence.

  2119. Okay, so its been a few years since this blog page was posted so I’d like to know when the heck they’re going to get this show on the road! I know there’s a chance it’ll never happen but Hollywood would have to be insane not to turn these miracles of literature into movies.

    I have never found my mind so immersed into a story before. This series isn’t just another “Back to the Future”, boring, same- old same- old, let us predict the future type of idea. It actually creates a whole new perspective into humanity’s flaws and how it affects our entire world. I love how it really shows how vulnerable humans really are even in a so- called “perfect” society.

    There are plot twists and love triangles and drama and action at every turn and thats exactly the type of stuff that makes movies soar beyond the average and reach the level of box office hit… beyond a good movie, reaching greatness. I think this series could rival the Harry Potter movie series, and even the Lord of the Rings trilogy easily if done correctly. Hollywood, if you’re reading this, I’m telling you that if you atleast try to make this movie well, you will be rolling in money after it hits theaters. I myself, will be sitting among the rest proudly watching movie history unfold!

  2121. i loved this series it was great i hope it does come out as a movie so i can go an watch.I have hopes it will be better than any other movie(of that year) i like watching good movies.B ut hopefully it will be awesome.

  2122. i know in your post you were saying stop helping with the casting calls but i just need to say this. while i was reading the book pretties i always imagined laura ashley samuels <- not super famous but drop dead gorgeous! and i think she would be perfect for the pretty-headed tally

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  2125. I have to say I’m your biggest fan ever. I’m super exited for this movie, I think you should use unknown people for all actors, for Tally, Shay, David, Zane, But all the specials should be famous like Dr.cable but maybe Aya should be unknown too the outfits should be the most wonderful things ever in Uglies should be plain but no dull maybe have Tally and Shay should wear brighter more out there clothes and pretty clothes should be glittery and flashy smokey should be earthy and stuff not trying to push any thing but I have so many ideas.

    ?You should really make Tally stand out be diffrent male her be like no one else?

  2126. I have to say I’m your biggest fan ever. I’m super exited for this movie, I think you should use unknown people for all actors, for Tally, Shay, David, Zane, But all the specials should be famous like Dr.cable but maybe Aya should be unknown too the outfits should be the most wonderful things ever in Uglies should be plain but no dull maybe have Tally and Shay should wear brighter more out there clothes and pretty clothes should be glittery and flashy smokey should be earthy and stuff PLZZ just take my ideas in hand think about them really????

    ?You should really make Tally stand out be diffrent male her be like no one else?

  2127. I do hope the series gets to be a movie 🙂 That would make the whole series a whole lot bubblier than it already is. Thanks a lot 🙂

  2128. i truly do love all three books and would be super excited if this movie did come out but is it going to i would really like to know???

  2129. I just finished re-reading the Uglies trilogy for about the bajillionth time!
    So I just want to say if a movie is ever made… (you should let me know about auditioning actors!) ^-^
    Good luck!

  2130. I love your books and have read them many thimes over. I like how your books are like watching a movie in your mind. Congraulations on the movie as well, i will surely watch it in the movie theater adn buy each one that comes out.

  2131. My friends and I all love these books and have been talking about how good of a movie this would be but yet we haven’t heard about the movie happening for a long time and would like to know if its still going on thanks that you r thinking about making it into a movie but we would all really like to know if its actually happening
    ~Christine and friends

  2132. Uglies is the series that really got me hooked into reading. So i think that unless the movie turns out like the lord of the rings in the way that both movie and book reflect the blood sweat and tears that has already been put into the book then i believe that there shouldnt been a movie.

  2133. I honestly wouldn’t care if the movie would be a little off but they have to make one!! This is the best book series by far and I’m so curious as to what the locations and pretties would look like!

  2134. i think they should really make the movie it would be one of the greatest things in the history of the world

  2136. I think someone new should play Tally! A fresh face for a main character is always good!! I’m free!
    Sorry I love the books so much!! I really relate to Tally and I think she is an amazing character!

  2138. it would be amazing if it became a movie, ive been waiting for it for a few years now and will wait as long as it takes for it to come out 🙂

  2139. I absolutely LOVE this book series and it needs to be made into a movie. Thank you for righting something so awesome. I just love reading your books, this would make an EPIC movie.

  2140. I always saw myself when reading the books as playing the part of shay. My friends say it was like watching a character come to life , when reading dialogue from the book Uglies.

  2142. I think a movie for uglies would be a really successful and profitable movie. loads of people like it and with how realistic the idea of that society existing it can really relate to the current society we live in. I personally would be satisfied with anime graphics at this point so long as its 4 seperate movies with the whole plot. Definately press these people to make this movie I swear ill buy 50 tickets myself

  2144. Hi Scott,
    Huge fan here.
    I read the uglies series when I was younger, having struggled then with body issues it was a great escape.
    Im 21 now and beginning my journey in acting, fingers crossed however success is earned not gained through luck.
    Im more than interested in absolutely any part in the making of this series towards tv or screen.
    If you do get the go ahead finally id love to be involved.

    Kind regards,
    Kelsey
    AUS

  2145. OMG! I LOVE THE UGLIES SERIES. Having I read it a bajillion times! I’m a bookaholic at heart and I have to say this series tops all the book series I’ve read. I’ super late on this, but I do hope a movie is made. I agree that it can have tiny, TINY differences than that of the book. But still it would be great. The only thing I’m worried about is famous celebs playing the parts of Tally and Shay. If they end up making a second movie, I don’t mind the celebs. But Uglies is much more of being normal/you despite the flaws. Don’t you think? That’s my opinion. Kay, bye. 😀 Oh! Please tell me if there is any auditions coming up. Thanks!

  2146. The book uglies is amazing I love it, and scott is a great writer you should read other books of his if you have not. Its just I hope they find actors that can play the characters right. Cause in other books they have strong characters but in the movie the actor is not the image the book gives.like I don’t know how to really explain, but I hope that they find the right person to play the characters

  2147. My friend finished the book uglies she says that I should go to the audition
    Because I’m a natural strawberry blond and she says that me and the character tally have a ginger connection.lol So I hope that I can make the audition cause playing tally would be amazing and wish everyone good luck I hope if I don’t make it that you will.

  2148. OHMYGOSH!!!! If the casting calls come out to San Francisco, I have to make my parents take me. I hope you can take someone who isn’t 16 for the role!! 🙂 🙂 🙂

  2149. So ever since I’ve read this book I’ve tried to find information as to how to audition to be in it! I understand you would have thousands of people going up for it and I don’t care because I want to be one of them 😀 please hold open auditions for all of us hopefulls!

  2150. Shoot. I love these books. I want to act in it… If it happens I wanna know if I could, some how, some way… Would love being Tally, although that’s shooting pretty high. Been acting my whole life… I don’t know. Just really really want to. Freaking love acting. Freaking love these books. Can’t wait!

  2151. OMGGGGG they should put Angelina Jolie for Dr. Cable they could make her totally look like a cruel pretty OMGGGGGGGGGGGG!!!!

  2152. soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
    what about that movie bruh????????????????????????????????

  2153. I am a 21 year old actress and have been enthralled with the triology since I was 12! They’re the only books I have reread over 30 times! I would love the opportunity to be casted or up for an audition! I am from Texas so please let me know!

  2155. OMG please!! please! please!!! I NEED TOO HAVE THIS BECOME A MOVIE!!!!! when will this happen!!! PLEASE MAKE IT A MOVIE!!

    SINCERLY,
    ELIZABETH

  2156. Would love to see this in movie form, I know you said stop asking. However, you did also say keep posting below! Hopefully there are updates. I just finished another run through of the books and decided to look online for updates, but nothing last 2013 is showing up.

  2157. Hi, it would be awesome if the uglies movie and following books came out! As soon as I read the first page I wanted it to become a movie! Sad though it costs so much money, but it could possibly make it up? I would also like to cast for Tally (if there is a movie) but I live in Australia and at the moment (2016) I am younger than 15-16. Could it be possible? As I am kinda taller than most people…? Would really like if you could reply?

    Thanks!

  2158. I think the actors and or actresses should not be famous because in the book they are described as “normal” people and having well known actresses or actors would defeat the purpose of a movie due to the fact that they are already in the audiences view as “perfect”. Giving locals and or foreigners the option to take a role would be a great opportunity for them and for the director as it portrays them as open-minded individuals. For example for Tally you should find someone who is actually 16 and that fits her personality in real life therefore the character is already experienced in acting as that character. Although I do agree with the point made above to have Dr. Cable as a well known actress. I know that other 16 year old girls like me would love to be apart of the film and would easily jump at the opportunity. And If I were given this tremendous opportunity it would be amazing I would love to play tally because I feel as if I could easily relate to her.

  2159. I love how this series was shaped and I would just like to commend you on that. You are my favorite author and have been this since I read Uglies for the first time at the age of ten, but certainly not my last. Tally’s arc as a character is astounding which is the primary reason in which I love her character so much. I have a deep fondness for the Uglies collection and can’t wait to hear new details about this soon-to-be motion picture. I hope to hear about casting calls as well because this would not only launch my career as an actress and performer, but it would give me a chance to become Tally Youngblood. Every thespian has an ultimate dream role they hope to pursue one day. Mine just so happens to be Tally Youngblood.

  2160. I wish there was more information of this. It’s my absolute favorite set of books.
    Shay and I are like the same person. I would do anything to have an opportunity

  2161. I did not know that we are supposed to write the answer here I did it in google class room.

  2162. Yayayayayaya!!! When is this movie happening, if it comes!!!!!!! I can’t wait this is amazing! The Uglies would make amazing movie!!!

  2163. This is a really old post and I know I’m prooooobably not going to get a response on this but are there any updates on a movie? I’ve been dreaming of being cast as Tally since i first read this book in 6th grade(I remember exactly how my room looked/where I sat when i first read it over 7 years ago) and praying that they wouldn’t cast until i looked old enough. I know he says to stop asking to be cast but 3 years later and I’m still waiting to hear how I can be involved. Hope this turns into a movie I can see it being big.

  2164. I have four sisters, and we all read the series. I would love to see a movie for this. However, I don’t think we’ll ever get to see it, not that it’s taken so long. *sigh*

  2165. Really wishing we could get some kind of update here… The first time I read Uglies I was 12. I fell completely in love with it and read all three books in less than a week. I never could really get into Extras though. I have read the books countless times since then. I just recently rediscovered them when I was moving, so I reread them and now I’m scouring the internet for an update on the movie. I still don’t understand why they made 5 Twilight movies and they still haven’t made Uglies -_- The way things are in the world today I feel like it would open the eyes of so many people (and satisfy all us fans who have been waiting YEARS for this). I’m probably not going to get a response but I figured I’d leave a comment anyway. If anyone has any recent news about the Uglies movie, please let me know. 🙂

  2166. Hi I’m a 12 year old female and I would really like to start an acting career. Even if it it just an extra, I would like to have a chance to play a part in this movie because I have read the books and I think this might be a good start to my future!

  2167. OMG That is so great i’m so amazed i have always said that there should be a movie for that book i read i all the time when i have nothing to read it is my go to book i love it so much. i think that a movie would be fantastic if it was made correctly if not then i would be a total flop. but how much work that seems to be being put into this it will hopefully be great. i have an idea on a couple of actors & actress’s for the movie i hope you don’t mind. Danielle Campbell would make a great Shay. Laura Marano would be great as Tally. Asa Butterfield would be a great one for David of Croy. So would Thomas Brodie-Sangster.

  2168. Hi! I am a 14 year old girl. Brown hair and eyes, 5 foot 4 inches. If given the chance I would love to audition for this movie! Thank you!

  2169. I am so frustrated that this hasn’t been turned into a movie yet!!! I first read the books about 10 years ago and I’m now in my mid-20s, it’s such an amazing series with such fantastic world building and impressive moral implications. Especially with how cinematic TV is becoming now, this series has so much potential!!! Although putting it out there, I strongly disagree with casting unknown actors, that’s how Mortal Instrument and Maximum Ride became such disappointing flops. With such great dialogue you need people to deliver the lines as though they actually care and believe what they’re saying, not just over-acting “Look I’m in my mid-20s but if I act like I don’t care I’ll seem like a teenager” types.

  2170. I would love to see this series become a movie or a series of movies. They have such an amazing plot that would be perfect for a movie setting. I am 16 and would love to play either Tally or Shay, since I feel both characters I could connect with a lot. I am from California, please consider and thank you for writing this series.

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