In Uglies, King will be playing the role of Tally Youngblood, a character she has wanted to play for years since reading the books over a decade ago. Joey King is an extremely familiar face on Netflix now thanks to her starring role in The Kissing Booth trilogy. Tally’s choice will change her world forever. The authorities offer Tally a choice: find her friend and turn her in, or never turn pretty at all. When Shay runs away, Tally learns about a whole new side of the pretty world-and it isn’t very pretty. And as a pretty, she’ll be catapulted into a high-tech paradise where her only job is to have fun.īut Tally’s new friend Shay isn’t sure she wants to become a pretty. In just a few weeks she’ll have the operation that will turn her from a repellent ugly into a stunningly attractive pretty.

Tally is about to turn sixteen, and she can’t wait. The story is set in a world in which a compulsory operation at 16 wipes out physical differences and makes everyone pretty by conforming to an ideal standard of beauty. Here’s everything else we know about Netflix’s Uglies:Īs mentioned above, Netflix’s Uglies will be an adaptation of Scott Westerfield’s international bestselling novel of the same name that was first published in 2005. Joey King notably signed a first-look deal with Netflix in summer 2021 for upcoming projects from her production company, All The King’s Horses. According to Deadline‘s sources, lead star Joey King has been a fan of the series for a long time and brought the series to Netflix –called them, got them to read the script and the book, and then King got Netflix to option it.

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