Uglies director McG has responded to fans' biggest issue with the dystopian film starring Joey King.

Fans of the book will know that Uglies is a series, and that the first book ends with a major cliffhanger. In an interview with Decider, Uglies author Scott Westerfeld said he would like to make a Pretties movie for the book’s sequel, but that it will depend on “how many people watch [the first movie], how many times.”

At long last, fans of Uglies, Scott Westerfeld’s iconic 2005 YA dystopian novel, have received the long-awaited screen adaptation. Somehow, Westerfeld’s series—a teen-targeted social commentary on beauty standards and our collective obsession with them—was skipped over in the late-aughts-to-early-2010s era of making movies out of bestselling postapocalyptic YA novels that gave us franchises like The Hunger Games,

Netflix original Uglies is one of the streaming service’s top films right now – and it’s left some viewers pondering the same thing. The movie is set in a dystopian future in which everyone undergoes mandatory cosmetic surgery on their 16th birthday,