In 2005 author Scott Westerfeld published Uglies, the first book in a best-selling series about a dystopian world where everyone is considered “ugly” until they get beautifying plastic surgery at the age of 16. He’d been inspired by a friend who moved to Los Angeles, and was told by his new dentist he needed a “five-year plan” to fix his teeth.
“We all joked about how he was going to have to get cosmetic surgery,” Westerfeld told Decider in a recent interview. “I thought, ‘What would it be like to live in a society where everybody had a five-year plan for their teeth, and for their face, and for their body?’”
Nearly twenty years later, Uglies has been adapted into a Netflix film starring Joey King, releasing on the streamer today. Directed by McG (who also directed Netflix’s Rim of the World and The Babysitter), and written by Jacob
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