Watch a Touching 'In Memoriam' Tribute to the YA Film Franchises That Died Too Young

For every Divergent, there’s an Eragon. Or an Inkheart. Or an Ender’s Game.

Though several film franchises based on smash Young Adult book series have prospered in the past decade — including the aforementioned Divergent, The Maze Runner, and The Hunger Games— countless others hoping for the same sequelization were dead upon arrival, felled by audience apathy, box-office glut, or titles like Cirque du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant, which sounds like the name of an Anne Rice/Criss Angel buddy-cop movie.

This weekend moviegoers will run to see Insurgent, the second installment of the Divergent series, which was one of the lucky few to reach its franchise potential. But before we celebrate its ongoing triumph, let us take a moment to pay homage to the would-be YA film series that weren’t so lucky — those that died off after just a single film, ignored by their literary fans before the movies even had a chance to grow into the lumbering, needlessly repetitive trilogies or quadrilogies we know they could have become. Watch our video, above, and take a moment to think of all the fallen franchises we’ve lost.