Movies: Kung Fu Panda Director Jennifer Yuh Nelson On Her First Live-Action In “The Darkest Minds”

Amandla Stenberg in The Darkest Minds

“The Darkest Minds” will be the first live-action film for director Jennifer Yuh Nelson, best known for her work on the Kung Fu Panda franchise. The movie is an adaptation of the best-selling book by Alexandra Bracken, the first in a YA trilogy (The Darkest Minds, Never Fade, and In the Afterlight).