Amandla Stenberg Leads A Teen Revolution In First Darkest Minds Trailer

Six years back, Amandla Stenberg made her big debut alongside a fresh-faced Jennifer Lawrence in The Hunger Games, a feature film adaptation of a popular Young Adult series about a decided teenage girl who began a revolution in a dystopian society. Right now, Stenberg is prepared to lead her own youth movement in The Darkest Minds, nevertheless another YA novel-turned-movie that hopes to capture some of Katniss Everdeen's magic at the box office.


Nevertheless with Jennifer Yuh Nelson at the helm — and the very-real teens who are currently at the forefront of their own revolution making headlines — The Darkest Minds feels incredibly of the moment. "The only people who would ever help us are us," one teen says to another in the newly released trailer.


Set in a dystopian future where most of them of children were wiped out by a mysterious infection and those who survived developed superpowers, the film follows Ruby (Stenberg), a 16-year-old girl who happens to be "among the most powerful." A girl with her destructive abilities should make for a powerful weapon, which needless to say puts her at risk.


Soon after escaping a government camp where superpowered children like her are detained and designated colors based on their abilities — Red (pyrokinesis), Orange (mind control), Yellow (power over electricity), Blue (teleknesis), and Green (heightened intelligence) — Ruby joins an audience of scrappy teens on the run and headed "to a place where kids can live with each other on the outdoor otherwise referred to as East River. However is this teen utopia as good as it seems?


needless to say, they have to evade the government, and the fearsome bounty hunter (Gwendoline Christie) who turns escapees in for cash, if they ever desire to find out. Judging from all the explosions and vehicle chases, that's easier mentioned than done.


At least there's some good, old-fashioned romance (and all the angst that comes with it) to take Ruby's mind off the impending war ahead.


The Darkest Minds hits theaters August 3, 2017.