This particular tale follows a young teenage girl who escapes from her camp and goes on the run with a group of other teenagers who have similar abilities — think Maze Runner meets X-Men: Days of Future Past.
The series centers on a vision of America that has been ravaged by a pandemic that has left an overwhelming majority of children dead.
Needless to say, we were already excited, but the casting of Gwendoline Christie just made this one of the most highly anticipated YA adaptations of the next few years.
Based on the book series by Alexandra Bracken, The Darkest Minds takes the traditional dystopian trappings of the average YA story and dials them up to eleven.