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The Hunger Games
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Boxed set

The Hunger Games
Catching Fire
Mockingjay

Author
Suzanne Collins
Country
United States
Language
English
Genre
Adventure
Science fiction
Publisher
Scholastic
Published
2008–2010
Media type
Print (hardcover)
The Hunger Games trilogy is a series of young adult science-fiction[1] adventure novels by Suzanne Collins. The trilogy consists of The Hunger Games, Catching Fire, and Mockingjay.[2][3][4] The first two books in the series were both New York Times best sellers, and Mockingjay topped all US bestseller lists upon its release.[5][6] By the time the film adaptation of The Hunger Games was released in 2012, the publisher had reported over 26 million Hunger Games trilogy books in print, including movie tie-in books.[7] The series recently ranked second, bettered only by Harry Potter, in NPR's poll of the top 100 teen novels, which asked voters to choose their favorite young adult books.[8] On August 17, 2012, Amazon announced The Hunger Games Trilogy as its top seller, surpassing the record previously held by the Harry Potter series.[9]

Contents
  [hide] 1 Background
2 Structure
3 Plot overview 3.1 The Hunger Games
3.2 Catching Fire
3.3 Mockingjay
4 Origins and publishing history
5 Main characters
6 Critical reception
7 Film adaptations
8 References
9 External links
Background[edit]
The Hunger Games trilogy takes place in an unspecified future time, in the totalitarian nation of Panem. The country consists of the wealthy Capitol, located in the Rocky Mountains, and twelve (formerly thirteen) poorer districts ruled by the Capitol. The Capitol is lavishly rich and technologically advanced, but the twelve districts are in varying states of poverty – the trilogy's narrator and protagonist, Katniss Everdeen, lives in District 12, the poorest region of Panem, formerly known as Appalachia, where people regularly die of starvation. As punishment for a past rebellion against the Capitol wherein twelve of the districts were defeated and the thirteenth purportedly destroyed, one boy and one girl from each of the remaining twelve districts, between the ages of twelve and eighteen, is selected by lottery and forced to participate in the "Hunger Games" on an annual basis. The Games are a televised event, with the participants, called "tributes", being forced to fight to the death in a dangerous outdoor arena. The winning tribute and his/her home district is then rewarded with food and supplies. The purpose of the Hunger Games is to provide entertainment for the Capitol and to serve as a warning to the Districts to remind them of the Capitol's power and lack of remorse.
Structure[edit]
Each book in The Hunger Games trilogy has three sections of nine chapters each. Collins says that this format comes from her playwriting background, which taught her to write in a three-act structure. Her previous series, The Underland Chronicles, was written in the same way, as Collins is familiar with this structure. She sees each group of nine chapters as a separate part of the story, and comments that she still calls those divisions "act breaks." [10]
Plot overview[edit]
The Hunger Games[edit]
Main article: The Hunger Games
The Hunger Games follows 16-year-old Katniss Everdeen, a girl from District 12 who volunters for the 74th Hunger Games in place of her younger sister Prim. Also participating from District 12 is Peeta Mellark, a boy who has developed a secret crush on Katniss. They are mentored by District 12's only living victor, Haymitch Abernathy, who won the Games 24 years earlier and has since assumed a solitary life of alcoholism. Peeta confesses his love for Katniss in a television interview prior to the Games, leading the Capitol to portray Katniss and Peeta as "star-crossed lovers." This revelation surprises Katniss, who harbors feelings for Gale Hawthorne her friend and hunting partner. Haymitch advises Katniss to play along and feign feelings for Peeta, in order to gain wealthy sponsors who can gift them supplies during the Games. In the arena, Katniss develops an alliance with Rue, a young tribute from District 11, and is emotionally scarred when she is killed. Katniss devises a memorial for Rue as an act of defiance toward the Capitol. More than halfway through the Games, the remaining tributes are alerted to a rule change that allows both tributes from the same district to be declared victors if they are the final two standing. After learning of the change, Katniss and Peeta begin to work as a team. When all of the other tributes are dead and they appear to win the Games together, the rule change is revoked. Katniss leads Peeta in a suicide attempt, hoping that the change will be reinstated and that they will both be victorious. Their ruse is successful, and both tributes return home victorious. During and after the Games, Katniss develops genuine feelings for Peeta and struggles to balance them with the connection she feels with Gale. When it becomes clear that the Capitol is upset with her defiance, Haymitch encourages Katniss to maintain the "star-crossed lovers" act, without telling Peeta.
Catching Fire [edit]
Main article: Catching Fire
In Catching Fire, which begins nine months after the conclusion of The Hunger Games, Katniss learns that her defiance in the previous novel has started a chain reaction that has inspired rebellion in the districts. President Snow threatens to harm her family and friends if she does not help to quell the rebellion by marrying Peeta. Meanwhile, Peeta has become aware of Katniss' disingenuous love of him, but has also been informed of Snow's threats, and promises to help keep up the act to spare the citizens of District 12. They tour the districts as victors and plan a public wedding. While they follow Snow's orders and keep up the ruse, Katniss inadvertently fuels the rebellion, and the mockingjay pin she wears becomes its symbol. District by district, the citizens of Panem begin to stage uprisings against the Capitol. Snow announces a special 75th edition of the Hunger Games—known as the Quarter Quell—in which Katniss and Peeta are forced into competing a second time with other past victors, effectively canceling the wedding. At Haymitch's urging, the pair team up with several other tributes, managing to destroy the arena and escape the Games. Katniss is rescued by the rebel forces from District 13, and Gale informs her that the Capitol has destroyed District 12 and captured Peeta.
Mockingjay[edit]
Main article: Mockingjay
Mockingjay centres around the districts' rebellion against the Capitol. It is revealed that District 13 did survive The Dark Days by living underground and it is led by President Alma Coin. Katniss, after being brought to 13, agrees to become the 'Mockingjay' in attempt to recruit more rebels from the districts. However, she makes conditions that Peeta, Johanna Mason, Annie Cresta, and Enobaria, victims captured by the Capitol, would not be seen as traitors and a condition where Katniss would be able to kill Snow if the rebels won as an act of vengeance. In the novel, it is revealed that Peeta has been 'hijacked' (a form of brainwashing using Tracker Jacker venom) to hate Katniss and even tries to choke her to death upon their reunion. After her healing, Katniss and a team known as the Squad, consisting of Gale, Peeta, Finnick, camera crew, and various other soldiers, embark on a mission to go to the Capitol to kill Snow, thus winning the rebellion. Throughout their mission, many members of the Squad die in various ways, including just-married Finnick. Towards the end of the book as Katniss approaches Snow's mansion, she sees a group of Capitol children protecting the entrance to the mansion as a shield and suddenly a Capitol hovercraft drops bombs, killing the children. However, due to the mercy of the rebels, they send in medics, including Katniss' younger sister Prim. An unexploded bomb goes off killing Prim instantly as soon as she notices her sister. Katniss, also injured, wakes up after being in a coma due to the bombs to hear that the Rebels have won and Snow is awaiting execution, which Katniss aims to do. After a meeting between Snow and Katniss, she finds out that it was in fact the rebels, led by Coin, who killed Prim as they hijacked a Capitol hovercraft. At Snow's execution, Katniss instead shoots Coin as an act of vengeance for her sister and Snow dies by choking on his own blood while laughing. This leads to Katniss' prosecution but she is deemed innocent as the jury believed she was not in a fit mental state. In the end, Katniss' mother and Gale both take jobs in different districts. Katniss and Peeta eventually marry and have a son and a daughter, though it is implied that all is not entirely well.
Origins and publishing history[edit]
Collins says that she drew inspiration for the series from both classical and contemporary sources. The main classical source of inspiration came from the Greek myth of Theseus and the Minotaur. As a punishment for past crimes, Minos forces Athens to sacrifice seven youths and seven maidens to the Minotaur, by whom they are killed in a vast labyrinth. Collins says that even as a child the idea stunned her since "it was just so cruel", as Athens was forced to sacrifice its own children.
Collins also cites the Roman gladiator games. She feels that there are three key elements to create a good game; an all powerful and ruthless government, people forced to fight to the death, and it being a source of popular entertainment.[11]
A contemporary source of inspiration was Collins's recent fascination with reality television programmes. She relates this to the Hunger Games in how they are not just entertainment, but also a reminder to the districts of their rebellion. On a tired night, Collins says that while she was channel-surfing the television where she saw people competing for some prize, and then saw footage of the Iraq war. She described how the two combined in an "unsettling way" to create the first ideas for the series.[12]
The first novel in the trilogy was first published on September 14, 2008. On March 17, 2009, Lionsgate announced that it had acquired worldwide distribution rights of the film version of The Hunger Games from the film company Color Force. Soon after the acquisition, Collins began to adapt the screenplay and the two companies later went on to co-produce the film.[13]
Catching Fire was published by Scholastic on September 1, 2009. The film version of the story – also co-produced by Color Force and Lionsgate – is scheduled for release in November 2013.[14]
Mockingjay was first published in hardcover by Scholastic on August 24, 2010.
Main characters[edit]
Main article: List of The Hunger Games characters
Katniss Everdeen: The protagonist of the series, Katniss competes in the Hunger Games in each of the first two novels and constantly battles between her feelings for both Peeta and Gale. She becomes the face of the districts' rebellion after she unknowingly defies the Capitol in The Hunger Games.
Peeta Mellark: The male tribute from District 12, who has secretly been in love with Katniss since they were children. His love for her is evident throughout the series. In Mockingjay, he is "hijacked" by the Capitol and turned against Katniss, but he recovers.
Gale Hawthorne: Katniss' best friend and fellow hunter. Gale is fiercely devoted to Katniss, and their relationship borders on romantic throughout the series. He is two years older than she is, and lost his father in the same mine explosion that killed Katniss' father.
Haymitch Abernathy: Katniss and Peeta's drunken friend and mentor for the Games. He won the 50th Hunger Games and was the only living victor from District 12 before Katniss and Peeta won the 74th Hunger Games.
Effie Trinket: Katniss and Peeta's escort for the games. Effie, as a citizen of the capitol, dresses very oddly and speaks in a distinct capitol accent. She is very proper and constantly worries about keeping things on schedule. She helps Haymitch send sponsor gifts to Katniss and Peeta during the games.
President Snow: The main antagonist of the series, President Snow is the head of the Capitol and all of Panem. Provoked by the survival of two tributes in a single Hunger Games, Snow demands of Peeta and Katniss to prove the reason behind it all was just they were madly in love. When the Capitol is defeated by the rebels, (in the last book) President Snow dies.
Primrose Everdeen: Primrose Everdeen, almost always called just "Prim," is Katniss's 12-year-old sister (by Mockingjay, she is 13) who was chosen by lottery to be in the Hunger Games. Katniss volunteers to take her place. Prim is a sweet little child whom everyone loves, and she regularly helps their mother heal the sick. Prim is killed in an explosion late in the third book.
Cinna: Katniss' stylist in both of her Hunger Games, he urges her on to become the symbol of the rebellion and designs the dresses that she wears before entering the games, as well as armor she wears in the war. He dies in the second book when Katniss enters the games.
Critical reception[edit]
All three books have received positive reception. Praise has focused on the addictive quality of especially the first book,[15] and the action.[16] John Green of The New York Times compared The Hunger Games with Scott Westerfeld's Uglies series.[17] Catching Fire was praised for improving upon the first book.[18] Mockingjay was praised for its portrayal of violence,[19] world building, and romantic intrigue.[20]
Criticism has come from the reality TV "death game" theme, which is also present in Battle Royale, Das Millionenspiel, The Running Man, and The Long Walk.[15] Also, the "romantic dithering"[21] and poor love triangle of the second installment was under criticism.[22] The last book, Mockingjay, was criticized by fans of the book and critics for not tying up loose ends.[23] There have also been alleged elements from real-life such as the modern Olympic Games[24] and Joan of Arc[25] in the trilogy.
Film adaptations[edit]
Main article: The Hunger Games (film series)
Lionsgate Entertainment acquired worldwide distribution rights to a film adaptation of The Hunger Games, which is produced by Nina Jacobson's Color Force production company.[26] Collins adapted the novel for film herself,[26] along with Gary Ross.[27] The film began production in spring 2011 and ended summer 2011.[28] It was released March 23, 2012, with a PG-13 rating.[29][30] Gary Ross directed; the cast includes Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss, Josh Hutcherson as Peeta and Liam Hemsworth as Gale.[31][32][33] Catching Fire will be released on November 22, 2013, with the main cast signed on to return but director Gary Ross will not return.[34][35] In April 2012, the director's position was offered to Francis Lawrence.[36] Lawrence will also be directing Mockingjay, which has been split into two parts.[37]
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ "Mockingjay proves the Hunger Games is must-read literature". io9. 26 August 2010. Retrieved 12 February 2013.
2.Jump up ^ Keith Staskiewicz (February 11, 2010). "Final 'Hunger Games' novel has been given a title and a cover". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved February 11, 2010.
3.Jump up ^ "Suzanne Collins's Third Book in the Hunger Games Trilogy to Be Published by Scholastic on August 24, 2010" (Press release). Scholastic. December 3, 2009. Retrieved December 3, 2009.
4.Jump up ^ "Suzanne Collins's Third Book in The Hunger Games Trilogy to be Published on August 24, 2010" (Press release). Scholastic. December 3, 2009. Retrieved January 1, 2010.
5.Jump up ^ "Children's Books". The New York Times. December 27, 2009. Retrieved December 31, 2009.
6.Jump up ^ "Mockingjay Tops All National Bestseller Lists with Sales of More Than 450,000 Copies in its First Week of Publication" (Press release). Scholastic. September 2, 2010. Retrieved May 7, 2011.
7.Jump up ^ Springen, Karen (March 22, 2012). "The Hunger Games Franchise: The Odds Seem Ever in Its Favor". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved April 11, 2012.
8.Jump up ^ "Your Favorites: 100 Best-Ever Teen Novels" (Press release). NPR. August 7, 2012. Retrieved August 10, 2012.
9.Jump up ^ http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/17/amazon-crowns-hunger-games-as-its-top-seller-surpassing-harry-potter-series/
10.Jump up ^ Collins, Suzanne (Video). Similarities To Underland. (Interview). Scholastic Canada. Retrieved June 15, 2010.
11.Jump up ^ "Video: Classical Inspiration – The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins". Scholastic. Retrieved September 4, 2010.
12.Jump up ^ "Video: Contemporary Inspiration – The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins". Scholastic. Retrieved September 4, 2010.
13.Jump up ^ bones/opk/lionsgate hungergames.pdf Press Release: LIONSGATE FEASTS ON THE HUNGER GAMES
14.Jump up ^ Terri Schwartz (November 17, 2011). ""The Hunger Games" sequel eyes a new screenwriter, director Gary Ross will return". IFC News. Retrieved December 2, 2011.
15.^ Jump up to: a b King, Stephen (September 8, 2008). "The Hunger Games review". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved November 26, 2010.
16.Jump up ^ Goldsmith, Francisca. "The Hunger Games". Booklist. Retrieved November 26, 2010.
17.Jump up ^ John Green (November 7, 2008). "Scary New World". The New York Times. Retrieved January 3, 2011.
18.Jump up ^ Zevin, Gabrielle (October 9, 2009). "Constant Craving". The New York Times. Retrieved November 26, 2010.
19.Jump up ^ "'Mockingjay' review: Spoiler alert!". Entertainment Weekly. August 24, 2010. Retrieved November 26, 2010.
20.Jump up ^ "Mockingjay". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved November 26, 2010.
21.Jump up ^ Welch, Rollie (September 6, 2009). "'Catching Fire' brings back Suzanne Collins's kindhearted killer". The Plain Dealer. Retrieved November 26, 2010.
22.Jump up ^ Reese, Jennifer (August 28, 2009). "Catching Fire review". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved November 26, 2010.
23.Jump up ^ Morrison, Kathy (August 30, 2010). "Book Review: 'Mockingjay' completes 'Hunger Games' trilogy". The Sacramento Bee. Retrieved November 26, 2010.[dead link]
24.Jump up ^ [1][dead link]
25.Jump up ^ Gwilym Mumford. "The Hunger Games: Jennifer Lawrence on Katniss, a 'futuristic Joan of Arc' | Film". The Guardian. Retrieved 2013-09-27.
26.^ Jump up to: a b Jay A. Fernandez and Borys Kit (March 17, 2009). "Lionsgate picks up 'Hunger Games'". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved January 4, 2011.
27.Jump up ^ Karen Springen (August 5, 2010). "Marketing 'Mockingjay'". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved September 4, 2010.
28.Jump up ^ Valby, Karen (January 6, 2011). "'Hunger Games' exclusive: Why Gary Ross got the coveted job, and who suggested Megan Fox for the lead role". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved January 26, 2011.
29.Jump up ^ Valby, Karen (January 25, 2011). "'The Hunger Games' gets release date". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved January 26, 2011.
30.Jump up ^ Hopkinson, Deborah. "Suzanne Collins Interview-Catching Fire". BookPage. Retrieved June 30, 2010.
31.Jump up ^ "The Changing Objective of the American Film Market". Baseline Intel. November 18, 2010. Retrieved January 2, 2011.
32.Jump up ^ Joshua L. Weinstein (March 16, 2011). "Exclusive: Jennifer Lawrence Gets Lead Role in 'The Hunger Games'". TheWrap.com. Retrieved March 17, 2011.
33.Jump up ^ Jeff Labrecque (April 4, 2011). "'Hunger Games' casts Peeta and Gale: Josh Hutcherson and Liam Hemsworth nab the roles". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved April 4, 2011. Lionsgate announced that the trilogy will be made into 4 movies.
34.Jump up ^ Nikki Finke (April 10, 2012). "Gary Ross Decides NOT to Direct "Hunger Games Two: Catching Fire’: Lionsgate In ‘Shock’'". Deadline. Retrieved April 10, 2012.
35.Jump up ^ "9 Untold Secrets of the High Stakes 'Hunger Games'". The Hollywood Reporter. February 1, 2012. Retrieved February 7, 2012.
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37.Jump up ^ "'Exclusive: Francis Lawrence to Direct Remainder of THE HUNGER GAMES Franchise with Two-Part Adaptation of MOCKINGJAY′". Collider.com. November 1, 2012.
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This article is about the novel. For other uses, see The Hunger Games (disambiguation).

The Hunger Games
Cover of the novel, showing the title in white text on a black and grey background, above a depiction of a gold pin featuring a bird in flight, its wings spread and an arrow clasped in its beak.
North American first edition cover

Author
Suzanne Collins
Cover artist
Tim O'Brien
Country
United States
Language
English
Series
The Hunger Games trilogy
Genre
Adventure
Dystopian
Science fiction[1]
Action
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Publication date
September 14, 2008
Media type
Print (hardcover, paperback)
Pages
374
OCLC Number
181516677
LC Classification
PZ7.C6837 Hun 2008
Followed by
Catching Fire
The Hunger Games is a 2008 science fiction novel by the American writer Suzanne Collins. It is written in the voice of 16-year-old Katniss Everdeen, who lives in the post-apocalyptic nation of Panem in North America. The Capitol, a highly advanced metropolis, exercises political control over the rest of the nation. The Hunger Games are an annual event in which one boy and one girl aged 12–18 from each of the twelve districts surrounding the Capitol are selected by lottery to compete in a televised battle to the death.
The book received mostly positive feedback from major reviewers and authors, including authors Stephen King and Stephenie Meyer. It was praised for its storyline and character development, though some reviewers have noted similarities between Collins' book and Koushun Takami's Battle Royale (1999). In writing The Hunger Games, Collins drew upon Greek mythology, Roman gladiatorial games, and contemporary reality television for thematic content. The novel won many awards, including the California Young Reader Medal, and was named one of Publishers Weekly's "Best Books of the Year" in 2008.
The Hunger Games was first published in hardcover on September 14, 2008, by Scholastic, featuring a cover designed by Tim O'Brien. It has since been released in paperback and also as an audiobook and ebook. After an initial print of 200,000, the book had sold 800,000 copies by February 2010. Since its release, The Hunger Games has been translated into 26 languages, and publishing rights have been sold in 38 territories. The novel is the first in The Hunger Games trilogy, followed by Catching Fire (2009) and Mockingjay (2010). A film adaptation, directed by Gary Ross and co-written and co-produced by Collins herself, was released in 2012.

Contents
  [hide] 1 Background
2 Plot
3 Themes
4 Publication history
5 Critical reception
6 Film adaptation
7 See also
8 References
9 External links
Background
Collins has said that the inspiration for The Hunger Games came from channel surfing on television. On one channel she observed people competing on a reality show and on another she saw footage of the invasion of Iraq. The two "began to blur in this very unsettling way" and the idea for the book was formed.[2] The Greek myth of Theseus served as a major basis for the story, with Collins describing Katniss as a futuristic Theseus, and Roman gladiatorial games provided the framework. The sense of loss that Collins developed through her father's service in the Vietnam War was also an influence on the story, with Katniss having lost her father at age 11, five years before the story begins.[3] Collins stated that the deaths of young characters and other "dark passages" were the most difficult parts of the book to write, but that she had accepted that passages such as these were necessary to the story.[4] She considered the moments where Katniss reflects on happier moments in her past to be more enjoyable.[4]
Plot
See also: The Hunger Games universe
The Hunger Games takes place in a nation known as Panem, established in North America after the destruction of the continent's civilization by an unknown apocalyptic event. The nation consists of the wealthy Capitol and twelve surrounding, poorer districts united under the Capitol's control. District 12, where the book begins, is located in the coal-rich region that was formerly known as Appalachia.[5]
As punishment for a past rebellion against the Capitol, in which a 13th district was destroyed, one boy and one girl between the ages of 12 and 18 from each district are selected by an annual lottery to participate in the Hunger Games, an event in which the participants (or “tributes”) must fight to the death in an outdoor arena controlled by the Capitol, until only one individual remains. The story is narrated by 16-year-old Katniss Everdeen, a girl from District 12 who volunteers for the 74th annual Hunger Games in place of her younger sister, Primrose. The male tribute chosen from District 12 is Peeta Mellark, a former schoolmate of Katniss who once gave her bread from his family's bakery when her family was starving.
Katniss and Peeta are taken to the Capitol, where their drunken mentor, Haymitch Abernathy, victor of the 50th Hunger Games, instructs them to watch and determine the strengths and weaknesses of the other tributes. “Stylists” are employed to make each tribute look his or her best; Katniss’s stylist, Cinna, is the only person at the Capitol with whom she feels a degree of understanding. The tributes are publicly displayed to the Capitol audience in an interview with television host Caesar Flickerman, and have to attempt to appeal to the television audience in order to obtain “sponsors”. During this time, Peeta reveals on-air his longtime unrequited love for Katniss. Katniss believes this to be a ploy to gain sponsors, who can be critical to survival because of their ability to send gifts such as food, medicine, and tools to favored tributes during the Games.
While nearly half the tributes are killed in the first day of the Games, Katniss relies on her well-practiced hunting and survival skills to remain unharmed and concealed from the other tributes. A few days into the Games, Katniss develops an alliance with Rue, a 12-year-old girl from the agricultural District 11 who reminds Katniss of her own sister. In the meantime, Peeta appears to have joined forces with the tributes from the richer districts. However, when he has the opportunity to kill Katniss, he instead saves her from the others. Katniss’s alliance with Rue is brought to an abrupt end when Rue is killed by another tribute, whom Katniss then kills with an arrow. Katniss sings to Rue until she dies, and spreads flowers over her body as a sign of respect for Rue and disgust towards the Capitol.
Apparently because of Katniss and Peeta’s image in the minds of the audience as “star-crossed lovers”, a rule change is announced midway through the Games, allowing two tributes from the same district to win the Hunger Games as a couple. Upon hearing this, Katniss begins searching for Peeta. She eventually finds him, wounded and in hiding. As she nurses him back to health, she acts the part of a young girl falling in love to gain more favor with the audience and, consequently, gifts from her sponsors. When the couple remains as the last two surviving tributes, the Gamemakers reverse the rule change in an attempt to force them into a dramatic finale, in which one must kill the other to win. Katniss, knowing that the Gamemakers would rather have two victors than none, retrieves highly poisonous berries known as “nightlock” from her pouch and offers some to Peeta. Realizing that Katniss and Peeta intend to commit suicide, the Gamemakers announce that both will be the victors of the 74th Hunger Games.
Although she survives the ordeal in the arena and is treated to a hero’s welcome in the Capitol, Katniss is warned by Haymitch that she has now become a political target after defying her society’s authoritarian leaders so publicly. Afterwards, Peeta is heartbroken when he learns that Katniss’s actions in the arena were part of a calculated ploy to earn sympathy from the audience. However, Katniss is unsure of her own feelings and realizes that she is dreading the moment when she and Peeta will go their separate ways.
Themes



The Hunger Games author Suzanne Collins in 2010
In an interview with Collins, it was noted that the novel "tackles issues like severe poverty, starvation, oppression, and the effects of war among others."[6] The novel deals with the struggle for self-preservation that the people of Panem face in their districts and the Hunger Games in which they must participate.[2] The citizens' starvation and their need for resources, both in and outside of the arena, create an atmosphere of helplessness that the main characters try to overcome in their fight for survival. Katniss needs to hunt to provide food for her family, resulting in the development of skills that are useful to her in the Games (such as her proficiency with the bow and arrow), and represents her rejection of the Capitol's rules in the face of life-threatening situations.[7] On the subject of the Games' parallels with popular culture, Darren Franich of Entertainment Weekly writes that the book "is an incisive satire of reality television shows", and that the character of Cinna "almost seems like a contestant on a fascist version of Project Runway, using Katniss' outfits as a vehicle to express potentially dangerous ideas."[8]
The choices the characters make and the strategies they use are often morally complex. The tributes build a personality they want the audience to see throughout the Games.[7] Library journal Voice of Youth Advocates names the major themes of The Hunger Games as "government control, 'big brother', and personal independence."[9] The trilogy's theme of power and downfall, similar to that of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, was pointed out by its publisher Scholastic.[10] Laura Miller of The New Yorker finds the author's stated premise of the Games –an exercise in propaganda and a "humiliating as well as torturous [...] punishment" for a failed uprising against the Capitol many years earlier– to be unconvincing. "You don't demoralize and dehumanize a subject people by turning them into celebrities and coaching them on how to craft an appealing persona for a mass audience." But the story works much better if the theme is vicissitudes of high school and "the adolescent social experience". Miller writes:

"The rules are arbitrary, unfathomable, and subject to sudden change. A brutal social hierarchy prevails, with the rich, the good-looking, and the athletic lording their advantages over everyone else. To survive you have to be totally fake. Adults don't seem to understand how high the stakes are; your whole life could be over, and they act like it's just some "phase"! Everyone's always watching you, scrutinizing your clothes or your friends and obsessing over whether you're having sex or taking drugs or getting good enough grades, but no one cares who you really are or how you really feel about anything."[11]
Donald Brake from The Washington Times and pastor Andy Langford state that the story has Christian themes, such as that of self-sacrifice, which is found in Katniss' substitution for her younger sister, analogous to the sacrifice of Jesus as a substitute for the atonement of sins.[12][13] Brake, as well as another reviewer, Amy Simpson, both find that the story also revolves around the theme of hope, which is exemplified in the "incorruptible goodness of Katniss' sister, Primrose."[14] Simpson also points to events similar to the Passion of Jesus; in the Games, "Christ figure" Peeta Mellark is stabbed after warning Katniss to flee for her life, and is then buried in the ground and placed in a cave for three days before emerging with a new lease on life.[14] Further, she finds that the Christian image of the Bread of Life is used throughout The Hunger Games; in the story, Peeta gives Katniss a loaf of bread, saving the girl and her family from starvation.[14]
Publication history
After writing the novel, Collins signed a six-figure deal for three books with Scholastic in 2006. First published as a hardcover in the United States on September 14, 2008, The Hunger Games had a first printing of 50,000 copies, which was bumped up twice to 200,000 copies.[2] By February 2010, the book had sold 800,000 copies,[15] and rights to the novel had been sold in 38 territories worldwide.[15] A few months later, in July, the book was released in paperback.[16] The Hunger Games entered the New York Times Best Seller list in November 2008,[17] where it would feature for over 100 consecutive weeks.[18] By the time the film adaptation of The Hunger Games was released in March 2012, the book had been on USA Today's best-sellers list for 135 consecutive weeks.[19]
The novel is the first in The Hunger Games trilogy; it is followed by sequels Catching Fire (2009) and Mockingjay (2010). In March 2012, during the time of The Hunger Games film's release, Scholastic reported 26 million Hunger Games trilogy books in print, including movie tie-in books.[20] The Hunger Games (and also its sequels) have sold exceptionally well in ebook format. Suzanne Collins is the first children's or young adult author to sell over one million Amazon Kindle ebooks, making her the sixth author to join the "Kindle Million Club".[21] In March 2012, Amazon announced that Collins had become the best-selling Kindle ebook author of all time.[22]
An audiobook version of The Hunger Games was released in December 2008. Read by the actress Carolyn McCormick, it has a total running time of eleven hours and fourteen minutes.[23] The magazine AudioFile said: "Carolyn McCormick gives a detailed and attentive narration. However, she may rely too much on the strength of the prose without providing the drama young adult listeners often enjoy."[24] School Library Journal also praised the audiobook, stating that "McCormick ably voices the action-packed sequences and Katniss's every fear and strength shines through, along with her doomed growing attraction to one of her fellow Tributes."[25]
The Tim O'Brien-designed cover features a gold "mockingjay" – a fictional bird in The Hunger Games born by crossbreeding female mockingbirds and genetically engineered male "jabberjays" – with an arrow engraved in a circle. This is a depiction of the pin worn by Katniss into the arena, given to her by the District 12 mayor's daughter, Madge Undersee.[26] The image matches the description of the pin that is given in the novel, except for the arrow: "It's as if someone fashioned a small golden bird and then attached a ring around it. The bird is connected to the ring only by its wing tips."[27]
Critical reception
The Hunger Games has received critical acclaim. In a review for The New York Times, John Green wrote that the novel was "brilliantly plotted and perfectly paced", and that "the considerable strength of the novel comes in Collins's convincingly detailed world-building and her memorably complex and fascinating heroine." However, he also noted that, while allegorically rich, the book sometimes does not realize the allegorical potential that the plot has to offer and that the writing "described the action and little else."[28] Time magazine's review was also positive, stating that it "is a chilling, bloody and thoroughly horrifying book" and praising what it called the "hypnotic" quality of the violence.[29] In Stephen King's review for Entertainment Weekly, he compared it to "shoot-it-if-it-moves videogames in the lobby of the local eightplex; you know it's not real, but you keep plugging in quarters anyway." However, he stated that there were "displays of authorial laziness that kids will accept more readily than adults" and that the love triangle was standard for the genre. He gave the book an overall B grade.[30] Elizabeth Bird of School Library Journal praised the novel, saying it is "exciting, poignant, thoughtful, and breathtaking by turns", and called it one of the best books of 2008.[31] Booklist also gave a positive review, praising the character violence and romance involved in the book.[32] Kirkus Reviews gave a positive review, praising the action and world-building, but pointed out that "poor copyediting in the first printing will distract careful readers–a crying shame".[33] Rick Riordan, author of the Percy Jackson & the Olympians series, claims it is the "closest thing to a perfect adventure novel" he has ever read.[34] Stephenie Meyer (author of the Twilight series) endorsed the book on her website, saying, "I was so obsessed with this book … The Hunger Games is amazing."[35]
The novel has been criticized for its similarities to the 1999 novel Battle Royale, by Koushun Takami. Collins has stated, "I had never heard of that book or that author until my book was turned in. At that point, it was mentioned to me, and I asked my editor if I should read it. He said: 'No, I don't want that world in your head. Just continue with what you're doing'." Susan Dominus of The New York Times reports that "the parallels are striking enough that Collins's work has been savaged on the blogosphere as a baldfaced ripoff," but argued that "there are enough possible sources for the plot line that the two authors might well have hit on the same basic setup independently."[36] King noted that the reality TV "badlands" were similar to Battle Royale, as well as his own The Running Man and The Long Walk.[30] Eric Eisenberg wrote that The Hunger Games was "not a rip off [of Battle Royale], but simply a different usage of a similar idea", pointing out various differences in both story and themes.[37] Robert Nishimura wrote that "The Hunger Games has an entirely different set of cultural baggage ... Collins just happened to tap in to the creative collective consciousness, drawing on ideas that have played out many times before, in addition to her intentional reference to Greek mythology."[38] The novel has also been controversial with parents;[39] it ranked in fifth place on the American Library Association's list of frequently challenged books for 2010, with "unsuited to age group" and "violence" being among the reasons cited.[40]
The Hunger Games received many awards and honors. It was named one of Publishers Weekly's "Best Books of the Year" in 2008[41] and a The New York Times "Notable Children's Book of 2008".[42] It was the 2009 winner of the Golden Duck Award in the Young Adult Fiction Category.[43] The Hunger Games was also a "2008 Cybil Winner" for fantasy and science-fiction books along with The Graveyard Book.[44] It is also one of School Library Journal's "Best Books 2008"[45] and a "Booklist Editors' Choice" in 2008.[46] In 2011, the book won the California Young Reader Medal.[47] In the 2012 edition of Scholastic's Parent and Child magazine, The Hunger Games was listed as the 33rd-best book for children, with the award for "Most Exciting Ending".[48][49] The novel is one of the top 5 best selling Kindle books of all time.[50]
Film adaptation
Main article: The Hunger Games (film)
In March 2009, Lions Gate Entertainment entered into a co-production agreement for The Hunger Games with Nina Jacobson's production company Color Force, which had acquired worldwide distribution rights to the novel a few weeks earlier.[51][52] The studio, which had not made a profit for five years, raided the budgets of other productions and sold assets to secure a budget of $88,000,000 – one of its largest ever[53] – for the film.[54][55] Collins' agent Jason Dravis remarked that "they [Lionsgate] had everyone but the valet call us" to help secure the franchise.[55] Intending the film to have a PG-13 rating,[56] Collins adapted the novel for film herself,[51] in collaboration with screenwriter Billy Ray and director Gary Ross.[57][58] The screenplay remains extremely faithful to the original novel,[59] with Ross saying he "felt the only way to make the film really successful was to be totally subjective" in its presentation of events, echoing Collins' use of first person present in the novel.[60]
Twenty-year-old actress Jennifer Lawrence was chosen to play Katniss Everdeen.[61] Though Lawrence was four years older than the character when filming began,[62] Collins felt the role demanded "a certain maturity and power" and said she would rather the actress be older than younger.[63] She added that Lawrence was the "only one who truly captured the character I wrote in the book" and that she had "every essential quality necessary to play Katniss."[64] Lawrence, a fan of the books, took three days to accept the role, initially intimidated by the size of the production.[65][66] Josh Hutcherson and Liam Hemsworth were later added to the cast, in the roles of Peeta and Gale, respectively.[67][68] Production began in late spring 2011[69] and the film was released on March 23, 2012.[70] The film's opening weekend brought in a non-sequel record $152.5 million (USD) in North America.[71] The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, based on the second novel in the series, is due to be released in 2013.[72]
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"The Hunger Games 2" redirects here. For the upcoming film, see The Hunger Games: Catching Fire. For other uses, see Catching Fire (disambiguation).

Catching Fire
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North American first edition cover

Author
Suzanne Collins
Cover artist
Tim O'Brien
Country
United States
Language
English
Series
The Hunger Games trilogy
Genre
Adventure
Dystopian
Science fiction[1]
Action
Publisher
Scholastic
Publication date
September 1, 2009
Media type
Print (Hardcover, Paperback)
Pages
391
ISBN
978-0-439-02349-8
OCLC Number
288932790
Dewey Decimal
[Fic] 22
LC Classification
PZ7.C6837 Cat 2009
Preceded by
The Hunger Games
Followed by
Mockingjay
Catching Fire is a 2009 science fiction novel by American novelist Suzanne Collins, the second book in The Hunger Games trilogy. As the sequel to the 2008 bestseller The Hunger Games, it continues the story of Katniss Everdeen and the post-apocalyptic nation of Panem. Following the events of the previous novel, a rebellion against the oppressive Capitol has begun, and Katniss and fellow tribute Peeta Mellark are forced to return to the arena in a special edition of the Hunger Games.
The book was first published on September 1, 2009, by Scholastic, in hardcover, and was later released in ebook and audiobook format. A film adaptation of the novel is set to be released on November 22, 2013. Catching Fire has received mostly positive reviews, with reviewers praising Collins' prose, the book's ending, and the development of Katniss's character. According to critics, major themes of the novel include survival, government control, rebellion, and interdependence vs. independence.

Contents
  [hide] 1 Synopsis
2 Themes
3 Publication history
4 Critical reception
5 Film adaptation
6 References
7 External links
Synopsis[edit]
Further information: The Hunger Games
After winning the 74th Hunger Games in the previous novel, Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark return home to District 12, the poorest sector in the country of Panem. On the day that Katniss and Peeta are to start a "Victory Tour" of the country, she is visited by President Snow, who explains that he is angry with her for breaking the rules at the end of the last Hunger Games, which permitted both Peeta and Katniss to win. Snow tells Katniss that when she defied the Capitol, she inspired rebellion in the districts.
The first stop on the Victory Tour is District 11, the home of Katniss's deceased friend and ally in the Hunger Games, Rue. During the ceremony, Katniss delivers a brief speech to the people of District 11, thanking them for their participants in the Games. When she is done, an old man whistles the tune that Katniss used in the arena to tell Rue that she was safe. The song acts as a signal and everyone salutes Katniss, using the same gesture that she used to say farewell to Rue. Leaving District 11, Katniss and Peeta proceed to travel to all of the twelve districts and the Capitol. During an interview, Peeta proposes to Katniss publicly, hoping to settle the dispute between Katniss and President Snow and placate the growing rebellion. Despite this, Katniss learns that their attempts of subduing revolt in the districts have failed.
Shortly after returning to District 12, Katniss encounters two runaways from District 8. They explain their theory that District 13 was not wiped out by the Capitol, contrary to what the other districts have been led to believe, and that many of its residents survive in underground shelters. Later, it is announced that, for the 75th Hunger Games, 24 victors from previous years will be forced to compete once again. This is the third occurrence of the "Quarter Quell": an event that occurs every 25th year of the Games and allows the Capitol to introduce a twist. Knowing that she and Peeta will both be competing in the Games a second time, Katniss decides that she will devote herself to ensuring that Peeta becomes the Quarter Quell's victor. However, Peeta is devoted to protecting her.
During the Games, set in a jungle with a saltwater lake, Katniss and Peeta join up with two other previous victors: Finnick Odair, a 24-year-old man who survived the Games at the age of 14, and Mags, Finnick's 80-year-old mentor, both from District 4. After Mags's death, Katniss, Peeta and Finnick join forces with Johanna Mason, a sarcastic and often cruel victor from District 7, and Beetee and Wiress, an older couple from District 3 who are said to be "exceptionally smart". Wiress soon proves her genius by revealing to Katniss that the arena is arranged like a clock, with all of the arena's disasters occurring on a timed chart. After Wiress is killed, Katniss learns of Beetee's plan to harness lightning in order to electrocute two other contenders. In the final chapters, Katniss directs the lightning at the force field that contains the arena, thereby destroying the arena and resulting in her temporary paralysis.
When Katniss wakes up, she is being transported to District 13, joined by Finnick, Beetee, and her mentor, Haymitch Abernathy. She learns that Peeta and Johanna have been captured by the Capitol, and is informed that there had been a plan among most of the contestants to break out of the arena—Beetee had been attempting to destroy the force field in the same way that she did. The book ends when Katniss's best friend, Gale, comes to visit her and informs her that, though he got her family out in time, District 12 has been bombed and destroyed.
Themes[edit]
The main themes of Catching Fire include survival,[2] and the conflict between interdependence and independence. As reviewer Margo Dill noted, "In [Catching Fire], Katniss and Peeta are definitely interdependent. They are both helping each other to survive. As a matter of fact, they want the other one to survive more than they do themselves." Dill goes on to explain how this likely increases the chances of each character dying.[3]
Government control is another important theme, both within the book and throughout the entire trilogy. After suppressing the first rebellion, the Capitol establishes rules in order to restrict and control the citizens' lives. Examples noted by Dill include that, "the 75th annual Hunger Games have 'new' rules that cause Katniss and Peeta to be in danger once again. More 'Peacekeepers' are placed in districts to diminish any hope that the citizens started to have after the last Hunger Games."[3] Another major theme throughout the trilogy is the media and the influence or power that popular culture has over the emotions, wishes and views of society. Other themes in the book include morality, obedience, sacrifice, redemption, love, and law.[2]
Publication history[edit]
Catching Fire had a preliminary hardcover release date of September 8, 2009, which was moved up to September 1 in response to requests by retailers to move the release to before Labor Day and the start of school for many readers.[4] It was also published as an audiobook on the same day.[5] Advance reading copies were available at BookExpo America in New York City,[6] and were sent out to some booksellers, and offered as prizes in Scholastic's "How Would You Survive" writing contest in May 2009. An eBook version was also published on June 3, 2010.[5] Catching Fire had an initial print of 350,000 copies,[4] a number which had grown to over 750,000 by February 2010.[7] The release of Mockingjay, the third novel of the series, followed on August 24, 2010.[8][9]
Critical reception[edit]
Catching Fire received mainly positive reviews from critics. Publishers Weekly wrote, "If this second installment spends too much time recapping events from book one, it doesn't disappoint when it segues into the pulse-pounding action readers have come to expect."[10] Booklist commented on how the "unadorned prose provides an open window to perfect pacing and electrifying world building".[2] The New York Times also gave a positive review, writing, "Collins has done that rare thing. She has written a sequel that improves upon the first book. As a reader, I felt excited and even hopeful: could it be that this series and its characters were actually going somewhere?" The review also praised Collins' development of the character of Katniss.[11] The Plain Dealer wrote, "The very last sentence of Catching Fire will leave readers gasping. Not to mention primed for part three."[12]
However, not all reviews were positive. The same review from The Plain Dealer expressed displeasure at how, "after 150 pages of romantic dithering, I was tapping my foot to move on."[12] A review from Entertainment Weekly opined that the book was weaker than the first and wrote, "Katniss pretends to be in love with her sweet-natured Games teammate Peeta Mellark, but she secretly pines for brooding Gale, a childhood friend. Except — why? There's little distinction between the two thinly imagined guys, other than the fact that Peeta has a dopier name. Collins conjures none of the erotic energy that makes Twilight, for instance, so creepily alluring."[13]
In addition, Time magazine placed Catching Fire at number four on its list of the top 100 fiction books of 2009,[14] while People magazine rated it the eighth Best Book of 2009.[15] It also won the Publishers Weekly's 2009 award for Best Book of the Year.[16]
Film adaptation[edit]
Main article: The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Lionsgate has announced that The Hunger Games: Catching Fire will be released on November 22, 2013,[17] as a sequel to the film adaptation of The Hunger Games. In April 2012, it was announced that Gary Ross, director of The Hunger Games, would not return due to a "tight" and "fitted" schedule.[18] Francis Lawrence was officially announced as the director for Catching Fire on May 3, 2012.[19] The film's cast is slated to include Jena Malone as Johanna Mason,[20] Philip Seymour Hoffman as Plutarch Heavensbee,[21] Lynn Cohen as Mags,[22] Alan Ritchson as Gloss,[23] Sam Claflin as Finnick,[24] and Jeffrey Wright as Beetee.[25] Production officially began on September 10, 2012 and concluded on December 21, 2012.[26] Shooting first took place in and around metropolitan Atlanta. Several District 11 scenes were also filmed in the rural areas of Macon County, Georgia, and the rest of production took place in Hawaii. Some of the wooded scenes were taken in Oakland, New Jersey.[27]
References[edit]
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2.^ Jump up to: a b c Chipman, Ian. "Booklist Catching Fire Review". Booklist. Retrieved 21 July 2010.
3.^ Jump up to: a b Dill, Margo (July 15, 1234). "Novel Study Guides: Themes in Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins". Retrieved 22 July 2010.
4.^ Jump up to: a b "The On-Sale Calendar: September 2009 Children's Books". Publishers Weekly. 1 July 2009. Retrieved 3 April 2011.
5.^ Jump up to: a b "Amazon Catching Fire". Amazon. Retrieved 22 July 2010.
6.Jump up ^ Roback, Diane (2009-01-22). "'Hunger Games 2': A First Look". Publishers Weekly. Archived from the original on January 25, 2009. Retrieved 2009-01-26.
7.Jump up ^ Roback, Diane (February 11, 2010). "'Mockingjay' to Conclude the Hunger Games Trilogy". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 16 July 2010.
8.Jump up ^ Staskiewicz, Keith (2010-02-11). "Final 'Hunger Games' novel has been given a title and a cover". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 2010-02-11.
9.Jump up ^ "Suzanne Collins's Third Book in the Hunger Games Trilogy to Be Published by Scholastic on August 24, 2010" (Press release). Scholastic. 2009-12-03. Retrieved 2009-12-03.
10.Jump up ^ "Children's Book Reviews: 6/22/2009". Publishers Weekly. 2009-06-22. Retrieved 2009-06-29.
11.Jump up ^ Zevin, Gabrielle (October 9, 2009). "Constant Craving". The New York Times. Retrieved 21 July 2010.
12.^ Jump up to: a b Welch, Rollie (September 6, 2009). "'Catching Fire' brings back Suzanne Collins' kindhearted killer: Young Readers". The Plain Dealer. Retrieved 21 July 2010.
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14.Jump up ^ "The Top 10 Everything of 2009". Time. 2009-12-08. Retrieved 2010-01-10.
15.Jump up ^ "People Magazine's Top Ten Books of 2009". BookGuide. January 2010. Retrieved November 7, 2010.
16.Jump up ^ Grossman, Lev (8 December 2009). "Scholastic Catching Fire page". Retrieved 22 July 2010.
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18.Jump up ^ Hertzfeld, Laura (April 10, 2012). "Gary Ross will not direct second 'Hunger Games' installment 'Catching Fire'". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved October 18, 2012.
19.Jump up ^ Staskiewicz, Keith (May 3, 2012). "Francis Lawrence confirmed as 'Catching Fire' director". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved May 3, 2012.
20.Jump up ^ Kit, Borys. "Jena Malone Chosen as Tribute for 'Catching Fire' (Exclusive)". The Hollywood Reporter. The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 10 July 2012.
21.Jump up ^ Cornet, Roth (July 9, 2012). "Philip Seymour Hoffman Cast As Plutarch Heavensbee in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire". AMC Entertainment. Retrieved October 18, 2012.
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24.Jump up ^ Wigler, Josh. "'Catching Fire' Casts Sam Claflin As Finnick". Retrieved 27 August 2012.
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27.Jump up ^ McAllister, Cameron. "'The Hunger Games: Catching Fire' officially begins production in Georgia". Retrieved 10 September 2012.
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Mockingjay
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North American first edition cover

Author
Suzanne Collins
Cover artist
Tim O'Brien
Country
United States
Language
English
Series
The Hunger Games trilogy
Genre
Adventure·
 Dystopian·
 Science fiction[1]·
 Thriller
 
Publisher
Scholastic
Publication date
August 24, 2010
Media type
Print (Hardcover)
Pages
390
ISBN
978-0-439-02351-1
OCLC Number
522512199
Dewey Decimal
[Fic] 22
LC Classification
PZ7.C6837 Moc 2010
Preceded by
Catching Fire
Mockingjay is a 2010 novel by American author Suzanne Collins. It is the last installment of The Hunger Games, following 2008's The Hunger Games and 2009's Catching Fire. The book continues the story of Katniss Everdeen, who agrees to lead the districts of Panem in a rebellion against the tyrannical Capitol. The hardcover and audiobook editions of Mockingjay were published by Scholastic on August 24, 2010, six days after the ebook edition went on sale. The book sold 450,000 copies in the first week of release, exceeding the publisher's expectations. It received a generally positive reaction from critics.

Contents
  [hide] 1 Inspiration and development
2 Plot
3 Themes
4 Publication history 4.1 Sales
5 Release 5.1 Promotion
5.2 Critical reception
6 Film adaptations
7 See also
8 References
9 External links
Inspiration and development[edit]
Collins has said that the main inspiration for The Hunger Games trilogy came from the classical account of Theseus and the Minotaur.[2] In Greek mythology, as a punishment for the killing of King Minos's son Androgeos, Athens was forced to sacrifice seven youths and seven maidens to Crete, who were then put in the Labyrinth and killed by the Minotaur.[2] After a while, Theseus, the son of the Athenian king, decided to put an end to the Minotaur and Minos's terror, so he volunteered to join the third group of victims, ultimately killing the Minotaur and leading his companions out of the monster's Labyrinth.[3]
Collins has said that there are also many parallels between the Roman Empire and the fictional nation of Panem. She describes the Hunger Games as "an updated version of the Roman gladiator games, which entails a ruthless government forcing people to fight to the death as popular entertainment." Collins also explains that the name "Panem" came from the Latin phrase "Panem et Circenses", which means "Bread and Circuses"[4] and refers to the strategy used by Roman emperors to appease the masses by providing them with food and entertainment.[5]
As with the previous books in the trilogy, Mockingjay contains 27 chapters, with nine chapters in each of the three parts. This structure, which Collins had previously used in her series The Underland Chronicles, came from Collins's playwriting background.[6] This "three-act" structure is also apparent in the trilogy as a whole; Collins stated that she "knew from the beginning" that she was going to write a trilogy.[7]
The cover and title information was revealed by Scholastic on February 11, 2010. The cover continues the previous books' theme on the symbol of peace. The novel's title comes from the hybrid birds of the same name that feature in the novels' storyline.[8] As Publishers Weekly has stated, "the hybrid birds that are an important symbol—of hope and rebellion—throughout the books".[9] Collins likens Katniss to a Mockingjay because both "should never have existed".[10]
Plot[edit]
Further information: The Hunger Games and Catching Fire
After being rescued by the rebels of District 13, Katniss is convinced to become "the Mockingjay": a symbol of the rebellion against the tyrannical Capitol. As part of the agreement, she demands that the leader of District 13, President Coin, grant immunity to all of the Quarter Quell participants, including Peeta, and that Katniss reserves the right to kill President Snow, the dictator of Panem. Much to her displeasure, she is kept away from the battles, and is instead tasked with starring in rebel propaganda films. Katniss is unable to cope with the guilt as she watches a mentally ill Peeta on television, as he is forced to speak out against her and the rebels on behalf of the Capitol. Finally, District 13 leaders decide to rescue Peeta, realizing that Katniss's guilt is impeding her role as "the Mockingjay." After the rescue, it is discovered that Peeta has been brainwashed into believing Katniss is the enemy, and he attempts to strangle her during their reunion. Peeta's brainwashing deeply disturbs Katniss, but he gradually improves after much treatment and therapy. His childhood friend Delly Cartwright helps with his recovery by recounting happy events from their past. Soon, Peeta recovers fully enough to train. Katniss and her propaganda unit are sent off on a mission to the Capitol, and President Coin later sends Peeta with them in replacement of another soldier, although his many scarred memories fuel his rage.
The rebels, including Katniss, gain control of the districts and begin an assault on the Capitol. A propaganda shoot in a purportedly safe Capitol neighborhood goes wrong, and Katniss and her team flee further into the city with the intent of finding and killing President Snow. Many members of Katniss's team are killed during intense urban warfare, including Hunger Games victor Finnick Odair. Eventually, Katniss presses on alone towards Snow's mansion, which has supposedly been opened to shelter Capitol children, but is actually intended to trap them and use them as human shields for President Snow. As she reaches the mansion, a hover plane with Capitol markings drops supply parachutes to the children which then explode, killing many of them. When medical teams move in to help the children, second round of the supply parachutes explode to kill the medical team, including Katniss' sister, Prim. The death of her sister traumatizes the already mentally exhausted Katniss, and she falls into a deep depression.
After the rebels' victory, President Coin and her inner circle decide to punish the Capitol just as the Capitol once punished the Districts, by holding a final edition of the Hunger Games with children from the Capitol as tributes. While recovering from the same explosion that killed her sister, Katniss happens to run across President Snow, who is under house arrest and awaiting execution. Snow tells her that he did not order the assault that killed Prim, and that he would have escaped if he had had access to a hover plane. Instead, he accuses Coin of being behind the bombing. When Katniss expresses her doubts about his innocence, Snow reminds her that they had agreed not to lie to each other following the 74th Hunger Games. He also explains that the bombing of the children would have served no purpose for him, as it turned the remaining Capitol citizens against him.
Shortly thereafter, Katniss recalls that the bombing resembled a trap originally developed by Gale Hawthorne. Gale denies being involved, but Katniss cannot repress her suspicions. At Snow's execution, Katniss thinks back to her conversation with him, and realizes that someone high up would have to had given permission for Prim to be on the front lines despite her young age. Making it look like the Capitol killed Prim would push Katniss's loyalty to Coin and would also drive a wedge between the Capitol and President Snow. When she is given the opportunity to execute Snow, Katniss makes her decision, raises her bow and shoots Coin instead, killing her. A riot ensues and Snow is found dead. Katniss attempts to consume the suicide pill on her uniform, but Peeta stops her. Katniss is acquitted of Coin's murder due to her apparent insanity and sent home to the ruins of District 12, along with others who are attempting to rebuild. Peeta returns months later, having largely recovered from his brainwashing. Katniss again falls in love with Peeta, recognizing she needs his hope and strength, in contrast to Gale who has the same fire she already finds in herself. Together with Haymitch, they write a book filled with the stories of previous tributes of the Hunger Games and those who died in the war to preserve their memory.
Fifteen years later, in the epilogue, Katniss and Peeta are together and have two children. The Hunger Games are over, but Katniss dreads the day her children learn about their parents' involvement in both the Games and the war. When she feels distressed, Katniss plays a comforting but repetitive "game," reminding herself of every good thing she has ever seen someone do. The series ends with Katniss' somber reflection that "there are much worse games to play."
Themes[edit]
Reviews have noted many themes in the previous books that are also explored in "Mockingjay". A review from The Baltimore Sun noted that "the themes of the series, including physical hardships, loyalty in extreme circumstances and traversing morally ambiguous terrain, are continued at an even larger scale." In the book, Katniss must deal with betrayal and violence against people. At the same time, while she was symbolically touching thousands of lives, she must also lead those people into war. Finally, Katniss realizes she cannot even trust President Coin, leader of District 13.[11]
In an interview with Collins, it was noted that the series "tackles issues like severe poverty, starvation, oppression, and the effects of war." Collins replied that this inspiration was from her father, who, when going to war in Vietnam, made sure that his children understood the consequences and effects of war.[4] Yvonne Zipp of The Christian Science Monitor noted that it was "the most brutal of the trilogy" and that "Collins doesn't take war lightly – her characters debate the morality involved in tactics used to try to overthrow the rotting, immoral government, and they pay a high cost for those tactics."[12] Katie Roiphe of The New York Times wrote that "it is the perfect teenage story with its exquisitely refined rage against the cruel and arbitrary power of the adult world."[13] In a review for USA Today, Bob Minzesheimer pointed out that the novel contained optimism: "Hope emerges from despair. Even in a dystopian future, there's a better future."[14]
Minzesheimer also noted a central question of "Real or not real?" which was asked throughout the novel by Peeta.[14] Susan Carpenter of the Los Angeles Times also pointed this out, writing, "Mockingjay takes readers into new territories and an even more brutal and confusing world: one where it's unclear what sides the characters are on, one where presumed loyalties are repeatedly stood on their head".[15]
Publication history[edit]
Mockingjay was first released in the US and Canada on August 24, 2010. The UK, New Zealand and Australia received the book one day later, on August 25, 2010. The audiobook was released simultaneously on August 24, 2010 by Scholastic Audio.[9]
Sales[edit]
The book had a 1.2 million-copy first printing that was bumped up from 750,000.[16] In its first week of release, the book sold over 450,000 copies. Following this, Scholastic printed an additional 400,000 copies, bringing the initial print run up to 1.6 million. Scholastic Trade president Ellie Berger said that sales "have exceeded all expectations".[17] The book has also been released in e-book format and topped sales in the week ending with August 29, 2010, beating out The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, which had held the top spot since April.[18] The other Hunger Games books have also made it in the top ten, with the first book at fifth and the second book taking eighth.[18]
Release[edit]
Promotion[edit]
To promote the release of Mockingjay, many bookstores held midnight release parties. The official event in New York City was attended by Collins, and included many activities such as a tarot card reader, a magician, jugglers and face-painters. Prizes such as signed copies of Catching Fire and Hunger Games-themed cups were raffled. Once Collins arrived, she read the first chapter of the novel, explaining that she would read with an accent since Katniss, the narrator, is from Appalachia. By midnight, copies were being sold with a signature stamp since Collins had a hand injury and was unable to sign.[19]
Before the release, Scholastic also released a trailer for the book, launched a Facebook page that gained over 22,000 fans in 10 days, and held a contest for booksellers to win a visit from Collins and an online countdown clock to the release date. There were also advertisements for the book on websites such as Entertainment Weekly and Romantic Times. National Entertainment Collectibles Association also sold other goods such as t-shirts, posters, games and bracelets.[20] Collins also held a "13-District Blog Tour" where 13 winners received a free copy of Mockingjay on August 24, 2010.[21] A tour was also scheduled, starting at Books of Wonder in New York where the official party took place. The tour ended on November 6, 2010, in the Third Place Books store in Lake Forest Park, Washington.[22]
Critical reception[edit]
Mockingjay has received generally positive reviews from critics. Some noted that there was a suspense drop between Catching Fire and the start of Mockingjay. Nicole Sperling of Entertainment Weekly gave the book a B+ and said, "Collins has kicked the brutal violence up a notch in an edge-of-your-seat plot".[23] Publishers Weekly gave the book a starred review, calling it "the best yet, a beautifully orchestrated and intelligent novel that succeeds on every level". The review went on to praise the "sharp social commentary and the nifty world building".[24] Kirkus Reviews gave Mockingjay a starred review, saying that the book is exactly what its fans are looking for and that "it will grab them and not let go".[25] Susan Carpenter of the Los Angeles Times compared the battlefield to Iraq and said that the book is every bit as original as the first in the series, ending the review with "Wow".[15]
The Baltimore Sun's Nancy Knight commented that the book "ends on an ostensibly happy note, but the heartbreaking effects of war and loss aren't sugar-coated" and that it will have readers thinking about the effects of war on society.[11] Katie Roiphe of The New York Times said it is "the perfect teenage story with its exquisitely refined rage against the cruel and arbitrary power of the adult world". However, she criticized that it was not as "impeccably plotted" as The Hunger Games.[13] Bob Minzesheimer of USA Today gave the book three out of four stars.[14] The Christian Science Monitor reviewer Yvonne Zipp described it as "an entirely gripping read".[12]
While a review from The Sacramento Bee praised the action scenes and the battle in the Capitol, the reviewer also criticized Collins for not giving enough time to finish all the loose ends, writing that "the disappointment with Mockingjay hits primarily as Collins starts her home stretch. It's almost as if she didn't allocate enough time or chapters to handle all her threads".[26]
Film adaptations[edit]
Main article: The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1
The Hunger Games trilogy is being adapted into a series of films, with the stars of the 2012 film The Hunger Games having signed on for a total of four movies.[27] On July 10, 2012, it was announced that Mockingjay will be split into two parts, with Part 1 set to be released on November 21, 2014, and Part 2 on November 20, 2015.[28] On November 1, 2012, it was confirmed that Francis Lawrence, director of The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, will return to direct the two final movies in the series.[29] On August 26, 2013, it was announced that Australian actress Stef Dawson would portray Annie Cresta.[30] On September 13, 2013, it was announced that Julianne Moore will play President Coin.[31] On September 23, 2013, it was announced that Wes Chatham will play Castor in Mockingjay 1 & 2. [32]
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References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ "Mockingjay proves the Hunger Games is must-read literature". io9. 26 August 26. Retrieved 12 February 2013.
2.^ Jump up to: a b Margolis, Rick (September 1, 2008). "A Killer Story: An Interview with Suzanne Collins, Author of 'The Hunger Games'". School Library Journal. Retrieved March 25, 2012.
3.Jump up ^ Plutarch, Life of Theseus, 15. 1 - 2
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5.Jump up ^ Margolis, Rick (September 1, 2008). "A Killer Story: An Interview with Suzanne Collins, Author of 'The Hunger Games'". School Library Journal. Retrieved March 13, 2012.
6.Jump up ^ Collins, Suzanne (Video). Similarities To Underland. (Interview). Scholastic Canada. Retrieved March 8, 2012.
7.Jump up ^ Hopkinson, Deborah (September 2009). "A riveting return to the world of 'The Hunger Games'". Book Page. Retrieved March 13, 2012.
8.Jump up ^ Staskiewicz, Keith (February 11, 2010). "Final 'Hunger Games' novel has been given a title and a cover". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved February 11, 2010.
9.^ Jump up to: a b Roback, Diane (February 11, 2010). "'Mockingjay' to Conclude the Hunger Games Trilogy". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 2 September 2010.
10.Jump up ^ Margolis, Rick (August 1, 2010). "The Last Battle: With 'Mockingjay' on its way, Suzanne Collins weighs in on Katniss and the Capitol". School Library Journal. Retrieved 2 September 2010.
11.^ Jump up to: a b Knight, Nancy (August 30, 2010). "Read Street: 90-second review: 'Mockingjay' by Suzanne Collins". The Baltimore Sun. Retrieved August 31, 2010.
12.^ Jump up to: a b Zipp, Yvonne (August 26, 2010). "Mockingjay". The Christian Science Monitor. Retrieved April 1, 2012.
13.^ Jump up to: a b Roiphe, Katie (September 8, 2010). "Survivor". The New York Times. Retrieved 14 September 2010.
14.^ Jump up to: a b c Minzesheimer, Bob (March 1, 2011). "Suzanne Collins' 'Mockingjay' is the real deal as the trilogy finale". USA Today. Retrieved February 25, 2012.
15.^ Jump up to: a b Carpenter, Susan (August 23, 2010). ""Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins: Book review". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 29 August 2010.
16.Jump up ^ "Scholastic Increases First Printing of Mockingjay, the Final Book of The Hunger Games Trilogy, to 1.2 Million Copies" (Press release). Scholastic. July 1, 2010. Retrieved 2 September 2010.
17.Jump up ^ "'Mockingjay' Sells More Than 450,000 Copies in First Week". Publishers Weekly. September 2, 2010. Retrieved September 3, 2010.
18.^ Jump up to: a b "Kindle best-sellers: 'Mockingjay' flies to the top". The Independent (London). September 2, 2010. Retrieved 2 September 2010.
19.Jump up ^ Wilkinson, Amy (August 24, 2010). "'Mockingjay' Official Midnight Release Party: We Were There! » Hollywood Crush". MTV. MTV Networks. Retrieved 5 September 2010.
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21.Jump up ^ "Hungry for Mockingjay giveaways?". Scholastic. July 30, 2010. Retrieved 5 September 2010.
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23.Jump up ^ Sperling, Nicole (August 24, 2010). "'Mockingjay' review: Spoiler alert!". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved August 29, 2010.
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27.Jump up ^ Robert, David (November 18, 2011). "Woody Harrelson Talks 'Hunger Games'". MTV. Retrieved May 21, 2012.
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29.Jump up ^ "Exclusive: Francis Lawrence to Direct Remainder of The Hunger Games Franchise with Two-Part Adaptation of Mockingjay". Collider.com. November 1, 2012.
30.Jump up ^ Ford, Rebecca (26 August 2013). "Australian Actress Stef Dawson Joins 'The Hunger Games‬: Mockingjay'". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 26 August 2013.
31.Jump up ^ Labrecque, Jeff (13 September 2013). "Julianne Moore cast as 'Hunger Games' President Coin". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 14 September 2013.
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External links[edit]
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The Hunger Games trilogy on Scholastic
Mockingjay at the Hunger Games Wiki.

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The Hunger Games (film)

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The Hunger Games
HungerGamesPoster.jpg
Theatrical release poster

Directed by
Gary Ross
Produced by
Nina Jacobson
 Jon Kilik
Screenplay by
Gary Ross
Suzanne Collins
Billy Ray
Based on
The Hunger Games
 by Suzanne Collins
Starring
Jennifer Lawrence
Josh Hutcherson
Liam Hemsworth
Woody Harrelson
Elizabeth Banks
Lenny Kravitz
Stanley Tucci
Donald Sutherland
Music by
James Newton Howard
Cinematography
Tom Stern
Editing by
Stephen Mirrione
Juliette Welfling
Studio
Color Force
Distributed by
Lionsgate
Release date(s)
March 12, 2012 (Los Angeles premiere)
March 23, 2012 (United States)

Running time
142 minutes[1][2]
Country
United States
Language
English
Budget
$78 million[3]
Box office
$691,247,768[4]
The Hunger Games is a 2012 American science fiction adventure film directed by Gary Ross and based on the novel of the same name by Suzanne Collins. The picture is the first installment in The Hunger Games film series and was produced by Nina Jacobson and Jon Kilik, with a screenplay by Ross, Collins and Billy Ray. The film stars Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Woody Harrelson, Elizabeth Banks, Lenny Kravitz, Stanley Tucci and Donald Sutherland.[5] The story takes place in a dystopian post-apocalyptic future in the nation of Panem, where certain boys and girls between the ages of 12 and 18 must take part in the Hunger Games, a televised annual event in which the "tributes" are required to fight to the death until there is one remaining victor. Katniss Everdeen (Lawrence) volunteers to take her younger sister's place in the games. Joined by her district's male tribute Peeta Mellark (Hutcherson), Katniss travels to the Capitol to train for the Hunger Games under the guidance of former victor Haymitch Abernathy (Harrelson).
Development of The Hunger Games began in March 2009 when Lions Gate Entertainment entered into a co-production agreement with Color Force, which had acquired the rights a few weeks earlier. Collins collaborated with Ray and Ross to write the screenplay. The screenplay expanded the character of Seneca Crane to allow several developments to be shown directly to the audience and Ross added several scenes between Crane and Coriolanus Snow. The main characters were cast between March and May 2011. Principal photography began in May 2011 and ended in September 2011, and filming took place in North Carolina. The Hunger Games was shot entirely on film as opposed to digital.
The film was released on March 21, 2012, in France[6] and in the US on March 23, 2012,[7] in both conventional theaters and digital IMAX theaters.[8] Japan received it last, on September 28. When the film released, it set records for opening day ($67.3 million) and opening weekend for a non-sequel.[9] At the time of its release, the film's opening weekend gross ($152.5 million) was the third-largest of any movie in North America.[10] It is the first film since Avatar to remain in first place at the North American box office for four consecutive weekends.[11] The movie was a massive box-office success by grossing over $691 million worldwide against its budget of $78 million, making it the third-highest-grossing film in the United States and ninth-highest-grossing worldwide of 2012.[4] It was released on DVD and Blu-ray on August 18, 2012.[12] With 7,434,058 units sold, the DVD was the best-selling DVD of 2012.[13]
The Hunger Games received positive reviews, with praise for its themes and messages, as well as Jennifer Lawrence's portrayal of Katniss. Like the novel, the film has attracted criticism for its similarities to other works, such as the Japanese novel Battle Royale, its film adaptation, and the Shirley Jackson short story "The Lottery". Collins' novel and screenplay drew on sources of inspiration such as the myth of Theseus, Roman gladiatorial games, reality television, and the desensitization of viewers to media coverage of real-life tragedy and war, not to think as just an audience member, "Because those are real people on the screen, and they’re not going away when the commercials start to roll."[14] The song "Safe & Sound" won a Grammy Award and was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song. For her performance, Lawrence won the Saturn Award for Best Actress, the Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress in an Action Movie, the Empire Award for Best Actress and was also nominated for the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress.

Contents
  [hide] 1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Production 3.1 Casting
3.2 Filming
3.3 Music 3.3.1 Soundtrack
3.3.2 Score

4 Reception 4.1 Critical response
4.2 Box office
4.3 Home media
4.4 Precedents in film and literature
4.5 Controversies
4.6 Accolades
5 Themes 5.1 Feminism
5.2 Politics
5.3 Religion
6 Sequels
7 See also
8 References
9 External links
Plot[edit]
Decades after a civil war known as "the rebellion", North America lies in a post-apocalyptic state. The nation of Panem consists of a wealthy Capitol and twelve poorer districts, each of which produces something that sustains the Capitol. As punishment for a past rebellion by the destroyed 13th district, each district must provide a boy and a girl ("Tributes") between the ages of 12 and 18 selected by lottery (the "Reaping") for the annual Hunger Games. The tributes must fight to the death in an arena, with the sole survivor (the Victor) rewarded with fame and wealth. This year, the arena is a large forest.
In the coal-mining District 12, when Primrose Everdeen is chosen in her first Reaping, her older sister Katniss, an exceptional archer, volunteers to take her place. Peeta Mellark, a baker's son who once helped Katniss, is the other District 12 tribute. Katniss says farewell to Prim and her best friend Gale Hawthorne, who promises to look after her sister.
Katniss and Peeta are taken to the Capitol, accompanied by their mentor, Haymitch Abernathy, a past District 12 Victor and heavy drinker. He warns them about the "Career" tributes from Districts 1 and 2 who train intensively at special academies and almost always win. Despite this, Katniss scores the highest of all the tributes during assessment by the Gamemakers - 11 of 12- for her marksmanship and nerve. Haymitch increasingly focuses on Katniss in training, which Peeta supports, as he believes she deserves to win and is much more skilled than him; Katniss insists that he receive the same priority as her. Her only comfort at this time is her stylist, Cinna, who gives her constant encouragement.
During a TV interview with Caesar Flickerman, the host of the Games, Peeta reveals his love for Katniss. She is outraged, believing it to be a ploy to gain popularity, as "sponsors" provide in-Games survival gifts if they like particular tributes. She discovers Peeta is sincere when talking to him the night before the Games.
As the televised Games begin, half the tributes are killed in the first few minutes trying to gain supplies and weapons strewn in front of a structure called the Cornucopia. Katniss barely survives, ignoring Haymitch's advice to avoid this stockpile; she fails to gain a bow and arrows but does acquire a dagger and supply pack. Using her experience as a hunter and wilderness survivor, she heads deep into the forest. The four Careers form an uneasy alliance with Peeta, using him to lead them to Katniss, who they view as their biggest threat because of her score.
When Katniss gets close to the edge of the arena, Seneca Crane, the Gamemaker, orders a forest fire ignited to drive her back. She escapes, but suffers a severe burn on her leg. While cleaning it at the river, she is spotted by the Careers, who go after her. They corner Katniss up a tree; unable to follow or shoot her down, they decide to starve her out. Haymitch convinces a sponsor to send medicine for her burns. The next morning Rue, (District 11, female) hiding in a nearby tree, draws Katniss' attention to a deadly tracker jacker nest. Katniss drops the nest onto the alliance. They scatter, but Glimmer (District 1, female) is stung to death. Katniss, disoriented by her own stings, takes a bow and arrows from Glimmer's body and is told to run away by Peeta. She eventually collapses. She wakes up to find that Rue has tended to her stings for two days; the pair quickly become friends and allies. They decide to use the calls of mockingjays in the arena as a signal.
Meanwhile, the Career alliance has gathered up all the Cornucopia supplies. Katniss has Rue draw them off, then destroys the stockpile by setting off mines planted around it. A furious Cato (District 2, male) the leader of the Careers, kills the boy assigned to guard it. Katniss frees Rue from a trap, then dodges a spear thrown by Marvel (District 1, male), which impales Rue. Katniss shoots Marvel in the heart, then tearfully comforts the dying Rue. Afterward, she arranges flowers around Rue's body and salutes the cameras. When this is televised, it sparks a riot in Rue's district which is put down by armed police. At the Capitol, Panem's President, Coriolanus Snow, angrily summons Crane. He is considering eliminating Katniss for the disruption she causes to the order, but Crane argues that this will give the Districts a martyr; they need someone to root for or the uprisings will spread.
Haymitch convinces Crane to make a rule change to appease them. It is announced that tributes from the same district can win as a team. Katniss then searches for Peeta and finds him camouflaged, with a badly infected wound from Cato's sword. They hide in a cave, where she tries to treat his leg and capitalize on the theme that they are lovers in order to get sponsors. An announcer proclaims a 'feast' at the Cornucopia, where the thing each survivor needs most will be provided. Peeta begs her not to risk getting him medicine. Katniss promises not to go, but after he falls asleep, she heads to the feast. Clove (District 2, female) ambushes Katniss, cutting her forehead and pinning her down. As she prepares to torture Katniss with her daggers, Clove gloats about the Careers killing Rue; however, she is suddenly killed by an enraged Thresh (District 11, male). Thresh spares Katniss once for the kindness that she showed Rue and departs with his item. Now, Katniss and Peeta are the only team intact, of the five remaining tributes. By morning, the medicine has restored Peeta's mobility and healed Katniss's cut.
While looking for food, they find Foxface (District 5, female) dead from eating poisonous Nightlock berries which Peeta was unknowingly collecting. Without warning, Crane has the arena darkened and unleashes a pack of hound-like creatures (muttations) to speed things up, resulting in Thresh's death. Katniss and Peeta flee to the roof of the Cornucopia, where they are ambushed by Cato. After a struggle, Katniss wounds Cato with an arrow and Peeta hurls him to the muttations below. Katniss shoots Cato to end his suffering.
With Peeta and Katniss apparently victorious, the rule change is suddenly revoked. Peeta tells Katniss to shoot him so she can win. She instead gives him half the Nightlock. Before they can commit suicide, the couple are hastily proclaimed the victors of the 74th Hunger Games.
Haymitch warns Katniss that she has made powerful enemies with her display of defiance; she must convince them she did so out of love for Peeta. Crane is locked in a room with a bowl of Nightlock for allowing the Capitol to be shown up. As Peeta and Katniss return to District 12, Peeta wonders aloud what will happen next, since Katniss does not truly return his feelings. Viewing the victors' triumphant return home on a monitor, President Snow ponders the situation.
Cast[edit]



 Jennifer Lawrence was ultimately cast as Katniss, and dyed her hair dark for the part.[15]
See also: List of The Hunger Games characters
Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss Everdeen[16]
Josh Hutcherson as Peeta Mellark[17]
Liam Hemsworth as Gale Hawthorne[17]
Woody Harrelson as Haymitch Abernathy[18]
Elizabeth Banks as Effie Trinket[19]
Lenny Kravitz as Cinna[20]
Stanley Tucci as Caesar Flickerman[21]
Donald Sutherland as President Coriolanus Snow[22]
Wes Bentley as Seneca Crane[23]
Toby Jones as Claudius Templesmith
Alexander Ludwig as Cato[24]
Isabelle Fuhrman as Clove[24]
Amandla Stenberg as Rue[25]
Dayo Okeniyi as Thresh[25]
Jack Quaid as Marvel
Leven Rambin as Glimmer
Jacqueline Emerson as Foxface
Paula Malcomson as Mrs. Everdeen
Willow Shields as Primrose Everdeen
Production[edit]
In March 2009, Lions Gate Entertainment entered into a co-production agreement for The Hunger Games with Nina Jacobson's production company Color Force, which had acquired worldwide distribution rights to the novel a few weeks earlier,[26][27] reportedly for $200,000.[28] Alli Shearmur and Jim Miller, President and Senior Vice President of Motion Picture Production at Lionsgate, took charge of overseeing the production of the film, which they described as "an incredible property... a thrill to bring home to Lionsgate".[29] The studio, which had not made a profit for five years, raided the budgets of other productions and sold assets to secure a budget of $88,000,000—one of its largest ever[30]—for the film.[28][31] Collins' agent Jason Dravis remarked that "they [Lionsgate] had everyone but the valet call us" to help secure the franchise.[31] Lionsgate subsequently acquired tax breaks of $8 million for shooting the film in North Carolina.[31] The production was eventually brought in under-budget at $78 million.[32]
Collins adapted the novel for film herself,[26] in collaboration with screenwriter Billy Ray and director Gary Ross.[33][34] The screenplay remains extremely faithful to the original novel,[35] with Ross saying he "felt the only way to make the film really successful was to be totally subjective", echoing Collins' presentation of the novel in the first person present.[36] Instead of Katniss' internal monologue about the Capitol's machinations, the screenplay expanded the character of Seneca Crane, the Head Gamemaker, to allow several developments to be shown directly to the audience. Ross explained, "In the book, Katniss speculates about the game-makers manipulations... in the film, we can't get inside Katniss’s head, but we do have the ability to cut away and actually show the machinations of the Capitol behind the scenes. I created the game center and also expanded the role of Seneca Crane for those reasons. I thought it was tonally important."[36] Ross also added several scenes between Crane and Coriolanus Snow, the elderly President of Panem, noting that "I thought that it was very interesting that there would be one generation [of Panem citizens] who knew that [the Games] were actually an instrument of political control, and there would be a successive generation who was so enamoured with the ratings and the showbiz and the sensations and the spectacle that was subsuming the actual political intention, and that's really where the tension is".[37]
The Gamemakers' control center, about which Katniss can only speculate in the novel, was also developed as a location, helping to remind the audience of the artificial nature of the arena. Ross commented that, "so much of the film happens in the woods that it's easy to forget this is a futuristic society, manipulating these events for the sake of an audience. The look of the control center, the antiseptic feeling of it and the use of holograms were all intended to make the arena feel 'constructed' even when you weren't seeing the control room."[36] Ross and visual effects supervisor Sheena Duggan were keen to use the omniscient view that the setting provided to justify the literal dei ex machina Katniss experiences in the arena; Duggan explained that "we really didn't want to have to explain things... how do you get compelled by these [animals] that just appear at the end of the movie? We wanted to find a way to introduce them without having to explain specifically and exactly what they were and the game room was a really great opportunity for us to be able to do that."[38]
Casting[edit]
Lionsgate confirmed in March 2011 that about 30 actresses auditioned or read for the role of Katniss Everdeen, including Hailee Steinfeld, Abigail Breslin, Emma Roberts, Saoirse Ronan, Chloë Grace Moretz, Jodelle Ferland, Lyndsy Fonseca, Emily Browning, Shailene Woodley, and Kaya Scodelario.[3][39] On March 16, 2011 it was announced that Jennifer Lawrence had landed the coveted role.[40] Ross described Lawrence as having "an incredible amount of self-assuredness, you got the sense that this girl knew exactly who she was. And then she came in and read for me and just knocked me out; I'd never seen an audition like that before in my life. It was one of those things where you just glimpse your whole movie in front of you."[38]
Though Lawrence was 20 when filming began, four years older than the character,[41] Collins said that the role demanded "a certain maturity and power" and said she would rather the actress be older than younger.[42] She added that Lawrence was the "only one who truly captured the character I wrote in the book" and that she had "every essential quality necessary to play Katniss".[43] Lawrence, a fan of the books, took three days to accept the role, initially intimidated by the size of the production.[3][44]
Jeremy Irvine was originally offered the role of Peeta Mellark but he turned it down for Now Is Good.[45][46] Contenders for the role of Peeta other than Hutcherson included Alexander Ludwig (who was later cast as Cato), Hunter Parrish, Lucas Till, and Evan Peters.[47] Other actors considered for the role of Gale included David Henrie, Drew Roy, and Robbie Amell.[47] In April 2011, John C. Reilly was in talks with Lions Gate Entertainment to portray Haymitch Abernathy, former victor of a Hunger Games held years before and mentor to Katniss and Peeta.[48] The following month Lionsgate announced that the role had gone to Oscar nominee Woody Harrelson.[18] The casting of Lenny Kravitz as Cinna, Stanley Tucci as Caesar Flickerman, and Toby Jones as Claudius Templesmith, soon followed. Multiple-Golden Globe award winner Donald Sutherland completed the major characters, cast as President Coriolanus Snow in late May 2011.[49]
Filming[edit]
Gary Ross became director in November 2010.[50][51] Fireman's Fund Insurance Company insured the production, but as part of the underwriting process insisted on a thorough risk analysis of hazards as diverse as wayward arrows, poison ivy, bears, bugs, and a chase across fast-running water.[52]
Lawrence dyed her blonde hair dark for the part of Katniss.[53] She also underwent extensive training to get in shape for the role, including archery, rock and tree climbing, combat, running, parkour, and yoga,[54] and experienced an accident on the last day of her six week training phase, in which she hit a wall while running at full speed, but was not seriously injured. Other stars who dyed their hair for the movie include Josh Hutcherson as Peeta, and Liam Hemsworth as Gale.[3] Lionsgate hired archer (and Olympic bronze medalist) Khatuna Lorig to teach Lawrence how to shoot.[52]
With an initial budget of $75 million,[55] principal photography began near Brevard in Transylvania County in Western North Carolina in May 2011[56] and concluded on September 15, 2011, with a final budget reported as between $90 and $100 million, reduced to $78 million after subsidies.[1][3] Steven Soderbergh served as a second unit director,[57] and filmed much of the District 11 riot scene.[58] The movie was shot on film as opposed to digital due (in part) to the tightness of the schedule; as Ross said in an interview with The New York Times, "I didn't want to run the risk of the technical issues that often come with shooting digitally—we simply couldn't afford any delays."[59]



 The scene where Katniss tracks down Peeta was filmed at Bridal Veil Falls in DuPont State Forest.
Virtually all production photography took place in North Carolina, with Lionsgate receiving tax credits of around $8 million from the state government to do so. Forbes magazine estimated that the state economy gained up to $60 million from the production, with over 5,000 people employed as extras, crew and support staff.[60] Most outdoor scenes, both from the arena and from the outskirts of District 12, were filmed in DuPont State Forest; the Little River, with its multiple waterfalls, provided several locations for shooting the river running through the arena.[61] The production team built a walkway across the top of Triple Falls for Lawrence to run over the rapids during Katniss' pursuit by the Career tributes.[62]
Many of the urban and interior locations, in the Capitol and elsewhere, were filmed in Shelby and Charlotte. Ross and production designer Phil Messina drew on the buildings of the 1939 New York World's Fair and symbols of political power including Tiananmen Square and Red Square, when designing the Capitol architecture, which they wanted "to be set in the future but have a sense of its own past... it's festive and alluring and indulgent and decadent but it also has to have the kind of might and power behind it".[63][64] For Katniss' neighborhood in District 12, the production team found Henry River Mill Village, an abandoned mill town which Ross said "just worked perfectly for the movie to evoke the scene"; Messina explained that "originally we talked about maybe building one house and the facade of the house next door and redressing it, and maybe doing some CG extensions... we ended up finding a whole abandoned mill town... it was absolutely perfect".[64]
Music[edit]
Soundtrack[edit]
Main article: The Hunger Games: Songs from District 12 and Beyond
The soundtrack album for the The Hunger Games contains songs inspired by the film; only three of them ("Abraham's Daughter", "Safe & Sound", and "Kingdom Come", respectively) appear in the film itself, during the closing credits.[65] The first single from the film's companion album, "Safe & Sound" by Taylor Swift featuring The Civil Wars, was released on December 23, 2011.[66] It reached number one on the iTunes overall charts in 12 hours.[citation needed] The music video for "Safe & Sound" was released on February 13, 2012. Along with separate songs from Swift and The Civil Wars, the soundtrack also features songs by The Decemberists, Arcade Fire, The Secret Sisters, Miranda Lambert featuring The Pistol Annies,[67] Neko Case, Kid Cudi[67] Academy Award winner Glen Hansard,[67] The Low Anthem,[67] Punch Brothers,[67] Birdy,[67] Maroon 5, Jayme Dee,[67] and Carolina Chocolate Drops.[67] The soundtrack was released on March 20, 2012.[68] The soundtrack track list was revealed on iTunes on February 13, 2012, and on the 14th "One Engine" was released as the second single. Jennifer Lawrence singing "Rue's Lullaby" was not included on the soundtrack. The album debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Top 200 chart, having sold 175,000 copies in its first week. It was the first since Michael Jackson's This Is It to debut at #1. It is one of just 16 soundtracks to grace the top slot in the history of the Top 200.
Score[edit]

 It has been suggested that this section be split into a new article titled The Hunger Games: Original Motion Picture Score. (Discuss) Proposed since May 2013.

The Hunger Games: Original Motion Picture Score

Film score by James Newton Howard

Released
March 26, 2012
Genre
Soundtrack
Label
Universal Republic
Producer
T-Bone Burnett
James Newton Howard chronology

The Hunger Games: Songs from District 12 and Beyond The Hunger Games: Original Motion Picture Score 


Professional ratings

Review scores

Source
Rating
Allmusic 4/5 stars[69]
Film Score Reviews 3/5 stars[70]
Lionsgate originally announced that Danny Elfman and T-Bone Burnett would score The Hunger Games, with Burnett also acting as the film's executive music producer to produce songs for the soundtrack.[71] Due to scheduling conflicts, Elfman was replaced by James Newton Howard.[72] The score album was released on March 26, 2012.[73]
Arcade Fire also contributed to the movie's original score. The group composed the grand, fascistic-inspired, ominous Panem national anthem, entitled "Horn of Plenty", an important and signature leitmotif appearing throughout the film.[74][75] "We were interested in making music that would be more integral in the movie, just as a mental exercise," Butler, who co-wrote the song with Chassagne, explained. "And there's an anthem that runs throughout the books, the national anthem of the fascist Capitol. So as a thought experiment, we tried to write what that might sound like. It's like the Capitol's idea of itself, basically."[74][75] He further added that "it's not a pop song or anything. More of an anthem that could be playing at a big sporting event like the [Hunger] Games. So we did a structure for that, and then James Newton Howard made a movie-score version of it that happens in several places in the film."[74][75] Arcade Fire's Panem national anthem has received strong reviews. According to Spin Mobile, ""Horn of Plenty" pulls off the neat feat of sounding both exactly like Arcade Fire and exactly like a futuristic anthem. It still has one foot in the band's uncorrupted neighborhoods, but another is up on the podium at the end of Star Wars accepting an Olympic gold medal or something. Horns blare, a choir booms, strings swell, the martial percussion steals the show, and we just realized how much we love Big Brother."[76]
The film also featured a rather obscure analog track from the 1970s composed by Laurie Spiegel for its "cornucopia scene", as well as music by Steve Reich, Olafur Arnalds, and the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble.[77] These do not appear on the soundtrack or score releases.

No.
Title
Length

1. "The Hunger Games"   1:10
2. "Katniss Afoot"   1:49
3. "Reaping Day"   1:35
4. "The Train"   1:27
5. "Entering the Capitol"   2:28
6. "Preparing the Chariots"   1:05
7. "Horn of Plenty"   1:59
8. "Penthouse/Training"   3:36
9. "Learning the Skills"   1:41
10. "The Countdown"   1:58
11. "Booby Trap"   2:37
12. "Healing Katniss"   3:04
13. "Rue's Farewell"   5:00
14. "We Could Go Home"   1:15
15. "Searching for Peeta"   1:27
16. "The Cave"   3:13
17. "Muttations"   4:45
18. "Tenuous Winners/Returning Home"   3:25
Total length:
 42:16 
The album reached a peak of 71st on the Canadian Albums Chart.[78]
Reception[edit]
Critical response[edit]
The Hunger Games received positive reviews from critics. Based on 274 reviews collected by Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an 84% "Certified Fresh" rating and an average score of 7.2 out of 10. The site's consensus reads "thrilling and superbly acted, The Hunger Games captures the dramatic violence, raw emotion, and ambitious scope of its source novel".[79] On Metacritic, the film has a 67 out of 100, indicating "generally favorable reviews", based on reviews from 44 critics.[80] Many critics praised Jennifer Lawrence for her portrayal as Katniss Everdeen, as well as most of the main cast. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Lawrence embodies Katniss, "just as one might imagine her from the novel".[81] Empire magazine said "Lawrence is perfect as Katniss, there's very little softness about her, more a melancholy determination that good must be done even if that requires bad things."[81] Several critics have reviewed the film favorably compared with other young-adult fiction adaptations such as Harry Potter and Twilight. Justin Craig of Fox News rated the film as "[e]xcellent" and stated: "Move over Harry Potter. A darker, more mature franchise has come to claim your throne."[82] Rafer Guzman of Newsday referred to The Hunger Games as being "darker than 'Harry Potter,' more sophisticated than 'Twilight'."[83] David Sexton of The Evening Standard stated that The Hunger Games "is well cast and pretty well acted, certainly when compared with Harry Potter's juvenile leads".[84]
Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film three stars out of four, praising the movie as "effective entertainment" and Lawrence's performance. Despite being a largely positive review, he criticized the film for being too long and noted that the film misses opportunities for social criticism.[85] Simon Reynolds of Digital Spy gave the film four stars out of five, calling it "enthralling from beginning to end, science fiction that has depth and intelligence to match its pulse-racing entertainment value". Reynolds also spoke highly of Lawrence's performance and director Gary Ross, whose "rough and ready handheld camerawork" meant that viewers were "with Katniss for every blood-flecked moment of her ordeal in the combat arena".[86] However, film critic David Thomson of the magazine The New Republic called it a "terrible movie", criticizing it for a lack of character development and unclear presentation of the violence, describing the latter as "un-American".[87]
Eric Goldman of IGN awarded the film four out of five stars, stating that director Gary Ross "gets the tone of The Hunger Games right. This is a grounded, thoughtful and sometimes quite emotional film, with its dark scenario given due weight. Ross doesn't give the film a glossy, romanticized 'Hollywood' feel, but rather plays everything very realistically and stark, as Katniss must endure these outrageous and horrible scenarios."[88] The film received some criticism for its shaky camera style, but it was said to "add to the film in certain ways".[88] The violence drew commentary as well. Time critic Mary Pols considered that the film was too violent for young children, even though the violence had been toned down compared with the novel,[89] while critic Théoden Janes of the Charlotte Observer found that "[...] the violence is so bland it dilutes the message".[90] Also writing in Time, psychologist Christopher J. Ferguson argued that parents' fears of the effect of the film's violent content on their children were unnecessary, and that children are capable of viewing violent content without being psychologically harmed.[91]
Pre-release tracking
On February 22, 2012, The Hunger Games broke the record for first-day advance ticket sales on Fandango, topping the previous record of Eclipse. The sales were reported to be 83 percent of the site's totals for the day.[92] According to first tracking, unaided awareness for The Hunger Games was 11%, definite interest was 54%, first choice was 23% and total awareness was 74%.[93] In the week leading up to its release, the film sold-out over 4,300 showings via Fandango and MovieTickets.com[94] On Fandango alone it ranks as the third-highest advance ticket seller ever behind New Moon and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2.[95] Finally, according to Fandango it broke the site's single-day sales record (March 23), the mobile sales record for a weekend (March 23–25, 2012) and the site's highest share of a film's opening weekend (Fandango sold 22% of the film's opening weekend tickets).[96]
Box office[edit]
The Hunger Games earned $408,010,692 in North America, and $278,522,598 in other countries, for a worldwide total of $686,533,290.[4] It made the largest worldwide opening weekend for a film not released during the summer or the holiday period, earning $211.8 million, which was just ahead of Alice in Wonderland's previous record ($210.1 million).[97]
In North America, The Hunger Games is the 13th-highest-grossing film, the highest-grossing film released outside the summer or holiday period,[98] and the highest-grossing film distributed by Lionsgate.[99] The film set a midnight-gross record for a non-sequel ($19.7 million), which is also the seventh-highest midnight gross overall.[100] On its opening day, it made $67.3 million (including midnight showings), setting opening-day and single-day records for a non-sequel, both of which were later surpassed by Marvel's The Avengers.[9] The film also achieved the sixth-highest opening-day and seventh-highest single-day grosses of all time.[101][102][103] On its opening weekend, the movie grossed $152.5 million, breaking Alice in Wonderland's opening-weekend records for a film released in March, for any spring release, and for a non-sequel—the latter surpassed by The Avengers.[99][104][105][106] Its opening weekend gross is also the largest for any film released outside the summer season and the fourth-largest of all time overall.[107] It remained in first place at the North American box office for four consecutive weekends, becoming the first film since Avatar to achieve this.[11][108][109] On June 10, 2012 (its 80th day in theaters), it became the 14th movie to pass the $400-million-mark.[110] On April 20, 2012, Lionsgate and IMAX Corporation announced that due to "overwhelming demand", The Hunger Games would return to North American IMAX cinemas on April 27 for a further one-week engagement.[111]
Outside North America, the film was released in most countries during March and April 2012,[112] with the exception of China, where it was released in June 2012.[113] On its first weekend (March 23–25, 2012), the film topped the box office outside North America with $59.25 million from 67 markets, finishing at first place in most of them.[114] The largest opening weekends were recorded in China ($9.6 million),[113] Australia ($9.48 million), and the UK, Ireland and Malta ($7.78 million).[112][115] In total earnings, its highest-grossing markets after North America are the UK, Ireland and Malta ($36.5 million), Australia ($31.1 million), and Germany ($20.0 million).[112]
Home media[edit]
The film was released in North America and the Netherlands on DVD and Blu-ray August 18, 2012 and in the rest of Europe on September 3, 2012. Extras include 'The World is Watching: The Making of The Hunger Games', numerous featurettes, the propaganda video in its entire form, a talk with the director Gary Ross and also Elvis Mitchell and a marketing archive.
In its first weekend on sale, Lionsgate reported that 3.8 million DVD/Blu-ray copies of the movie were sold, with more than one-third in the Blu-ray format.[116] Three weeks after the release of the movie to home media formats in the US, over 5 million DVD units and 3.7 million Blu-ray units have been sold.[117][118] With 7,434,058 units sold, the DVD became the top-selling DVD of 2012.[13]
Precedents in film and literature[edit]
Charles McGrath, writing for The New York Times, said that the film will remind viewers of the television series Survivor, a little of The Bachelorette, and of the short story "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson published in 1948 by The New Yorker.[119] David Sexton of The Evening Standard compared The Hunger Games unfavourably to Kinji Fukasaku's Japanese film Battle Royale, as did several other critics;[84][120][121][122][123] the novel had earlier faced criticism for its similarities to the novel Battle Royale by Koushun Takami.[124] Jonathan Looms of The Oxford Student argues that it is "unfair that the film is only drawing comparisons with Battle Royale" but that it "is a veritable pastiche of other movies" as well, comparing it to The Truman Show, Death Race, the Bourne films, and Zoolander, and that it is common for artists to borrow from and "improve on many sources. Quentin Tarantino has built his career on this principle."[125] It reminded an author at Salon of the 1932 film The Most Dangerous Game.[126]
Wheeler Winston Dixon, a film professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, listed several precedents: Battle Royale, Jackson's "The Lottery", William Golding's Lord of the Flies, Metropolis, Blade Runner, Death Race 2000, and George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four.[127] Manohla Dargis in The New York Times compares it to Battle Royale, Ender's Game, and Twilight, but contrasts The Hunger Games in terms of how its "exciting" female protagonist Katniss "rescues herself with resourcefulness, guts and true aim".[128] Steve Rose of The Guardian refers to the film as "think Battle Royale meets The Running Man meets Survivor".[129] Writing in The Atlantic, Govindini Murty made a list of touchstones the film alludes to, from the ancient Greek, Roman and Egyptian civilizations to modern references such as the Great Depression, the Vietnam and Iraq Wars, and reality television.[130] For her part, author Collins cites the myth of Theseus, reality television and coverage of the Iraq War as her inspiration.[131][132][133]
Controversies[edit]
During the film's opening weekend, controversial statements about various members of the cast arose, sparking open dialog about issues of racism, sexism and unrealistic body image. In a Jezebel article published March 26, 2012, Dodai Stewart reported that several users on Twitter posted racist tweets, criticizing the portrayals of Rue, Thresh and Cinna by African American actors.[134][135] In a 2011 interview with Entertainment Weekly, Collins stated that while she did not have any ethnic background in mind for lead characters Katniss and Gale because the book is written in "a time period where hundreds of years have passed" and there would be "a lot of ethnic mixing", she explains "there are some characters in the book who are more specifically described", and states that both Rue and Thresh are African American.[136] Lyneka Little of The Wall Street Journal states that although it is easy to find bigoted or offensive postings online, "the racist 'Hunger Games' tweets, because they are so shockingly ignorant even by the standards of the fringes of the internet, have kicked up a storm".[137] Fahima Haque of The Washington Post, Bim Adewunmi of The Guardian, and Christopher Rosen of The Huffington Post all reiterate the fact that Rue and Thresh are described in The Hunger Games as having dark brown skin, as well as Collins' assertion that they were intended to be depicted as African Americans.[134][138][139] Adewunmi remarked that "it comes to this: if the casting of Rue, Thresh and Cinna has left you bewildered and upset, consider two things. One: you may be a racist—congrats! Two: you definitely lack basic reading comprehension. Mazel tov!"[139] Erik Kain of Forbes saw the controversy as a way to appreciate the value of free speech. He states that while society may never be free of racism, "racist comments made on Facebook and Twitter quickly become public record. Aggregations of these comments, like the Jezebel piece, expose people for what they are. Sure, many hide under the cloak of anonymity, but many others cannot or choose not to. And as the internet becomes more civilized and its denizens more accountable, this sort of thing carries more and more weight."[135] Amandla Stenberg responded to the controversy with the following statement: "As a fan of the books, I feel fortunate to be part of The Hunger Games family... It was an amazing experience; I am proud of the film and my performance. I want to thank all of my fans and the entire Hunger Games community for their support and loyalty."[140] Dayo Okeniyi was quoted saying "I think this is a lesson for people to think before they tweet" and "It's sad... We could now see where society is today. But I try not to think about stuff like that."[141]
A number of critics expressed disappointment in Jennifer Lawrence's casting as Katniss because her weight was not representative of a character who has suffered a life of starvation. Manohla Dargis, in her review of the film for The New York Times stated "[a] few years ago Ms. Lawrence might have looked hungry enough to play Katniss, but now, at 21, her seductive, womanly figure makes a bad fit for a dystopian fantasy about a people starved into submission".[142] Todd McCarthy of The Hollywood Reporter said that in certain scenes, Lawrence displays "lingering baby fat".[143] These remarks have been rebuked by a number of journalists for pushing unrealistic body image expectations for women.[144] L.V. Anderson of Slate states that "[j]ust as living in a world with abundant calories does not automatically make everyone fat, living in a dystopian world like Panem with sporadic food access would not automatically make everyone skinny. Some bodies, I daresay, would be even bigger than Lawrence's."[145] Since none of Lawrence's male co-stars have come under the same scrutiny, Anderson concludes complaints about Lawrence's weight are inherently sexist.[145] MTV asked for responses from audiences on the controversy and reported that most found criticism of Lawrence's weight "misguided".[146] One response pointed to Collins' physical description of Katniss in The Hunger Games novel which reads "I stand straight, and while I'm thin, I'm strong. The meat and plants from the woods combined with the exertion it took to get them have given me a healthier body than most of those I see around me."[147] Los Angeles Times writer Alexandra Le Tellier commented that "[t]he sexist commentary along with the racist barbs made by so-called fans are as stomach-churning as the film's cultural commentary, which, in part, shines a light on the court of public opinion and its sometimes destructive power to determine someone else's fate".[148]
Screening of The Hunger Games has been delayed indefinitely in Vietnam.[149] The film was to be released on March 30, 2012, but, according to a member of the Vietnamese National Film Board, the Board considers the film to be too violent and unanimously voted for the indefinite delay. It is, in fact, banned.[150]
The film has been rated 12A by the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) in the UK for "intense threat, moderate violence and occasional gory moments".[2] To achieve that rating, Lionsgate had to cut or substitute seven seconds of film by "digitally removing blood splashes and the sight of blood on wounds and weapons".[151] In the United States, the movie was granted a PG-13 rating from the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA)[152] for "intense violent thematic material and disturbing images—all involving teens"; as Collins had originally anticipated.[153]
There have also been comparisons between The Hunger Games premise of children killing each other, and the child soldiers of the Lord's Resistance Army led by Joseph Kony in the midst of the Kony 2012 campaign.[154][155][156]
Accolades[edit]
List of awards and nominations

Award
Category
Recipients and nominees
Result
Source
Virgin Media Movie Awards 2012 Most Wanted Movie of 2012 The Hunger Games Won [157]
Next Big Thing of 2012 Josh Hutcherson Nominated
CinemaCon Awards 2012 Breakthrough Performer of the Year Won [158]
NewNowNext Awards 2012 Next Mega Star [159]
Australians in Film Awards 2012 Breakthrough Liam Hemsworth [160]
Golden Trailer Awards 2012 Best Action Trailer 2 Nominated [161]
Best Action Poster Teaser Poster Won
Best Action TV Spot Family Nominated
Best Animation/Family Poster Final Poster Won
Best Drama TV Spot Big Event Countdown Nominated
Best Motion/Titel Graphics Trailer 1
Best Standee for Feature Film Standee Won
Best Teaser Poster Teaser Poster
Best Thriller Poster Final Poster Nominated
Best Thriller TV Spot Big Event Countdown
Best Wildposts Character Posters
Most Innovative Advertising for a Brand/Product Faux Motion Ad - Smile Away Won
Most Innovative Advertising for a Feature Film Faux Motion Ad - Cutting Edge Nominated
Faux Motion Ad - Liquid Skyliner
MTV Movie Awards 2012 Best Cast Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Elizabeth Banks, Alexander Ludwig, Woody Harrelson & Lenny Kravitz [162]
Best Female Performance Jennifer Lawrence Won
Best Fight Jennifer Lawrence & Josh Hutcherson vs. Alexander Ludwig
Best Hero Jennifer Lawrence Nominated
Best Kiss Jennifer Lawrence & Josh Hutcherson
Best Male Performance Josh Hutcherson Won
Best On-Screen Transformation Elizabeth Banks
Breakthrough Performance Liam Hemsworth Nominated
Movie of the Year The Hunger Games
CMT Music Awards 2012 Collaborative Video of The Year Safe & Sound [163]
Video of the Year
Kerrang! Awards 2012 Best Film The Hunger Games Won [164]
Poptastic Awards 2012 Movie [165]
Movie Actor Josh Hutcherson
Liam Hemsworth Nominated
Movie Actress Amandla Stenberg
Jennifer Lawrence
Willow Shields
Teen Choice Awards 2012 Choice Fashion: Male Hottie Liam Hemsworth [166]
Choice Movie Actor: Sci-Fi/Fantasy Josh Hutcherson Won
Choice Movie Actress: Sci-Fi/Fantasy Jennifer Lawrence
Choice Movie: Chemistry Jennifer Lawrence & Amandla Stenberg
Choice Movie: Liplock Jennifer Lawrence & Josh Hutcherson
Choice Movie Scene Stealer: Female Elizabeth Banks Nominated
Choice Movie Scene Stealer: Male Liam Hemsworth Won
Choice Movie: Sci-Fi/Fantasy The Hunger Games
Choice Movie: Villain Alexander Ludwig
Total Film Hotlist Awards 2012 Hottest Actress Jennifer Lawrence Nominated [167]
Hottest Film The Hunger Games
Hottest Newcomer - Male Liam Hemsworth Won
Hottest Scene Farewell Rue Nominated
Do Something Awards 2012 Movie Star: Male Josh Hutcherson Won [168]
Liam Hemsworth Nominated
Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards Mexico 2012 Película favorita (Favorite Movie) The Hunger Games [169]
Artios Awards 2012 Outstanding Achievement in Casting: Big Budget Feature - Drama Debra Zane & Jackie Burch [170]
Teen Icon Awards 2012 Icon of Tomorrow Willow Shields Pending [171]
Iconic Female Star Jennifer Lawrence
Iconic Kiss Jennifer Lawrence & Josh Hutcherson Won
Iconic Male Star Josh Hutcherson Pending
Iconic Movie The Hunger Games
Iconic Movie Actor Josh Hutcherson
Liam Hemsworth
Iconic Movie Actress Jennifer Lawrence
Country Music Association Awards 2012 Musical Event of the Year Safe & Sound Nominated [172]
BAFTA Children's Awards 2012 Feature Film The Hunger Games Won [173]
EW Entertainers of the Year 2012 Best Dressed Star Jennifer Lawrence Nominated [174]
Favorite Movie Actor Liam Hemsworth
Favorite Movie Actress Jennifer Lawrence Won
Sexiest Female Entertainer
New York Film Critics Circle Awards 2012 Best Actress Nominated [175]
Capricho Awards 2012 Filme do Ano (Film of the Year) The Hunger Games [176]
Melhor Ator Internacional (Best International Actor) Josh Hutcherson
Melhor Atriz Internacional (Best International Actress) Jennifer Lawrence
Billboard.com Reader's Choice Polls 2012 Favorite No. 1 Billboard 200 Album The Hunger Games: Songs from District 12 and Beyond [177]
Village Voice Film Polls 2012 Actress Jennifer Lawrence [178]
Film The Hunger Games
EDA Awards 2013 Kick Ass Award for Best Female Action Star Jennifer Lawrence Won [179]
This Year's Outstanding Achievement by a Woman in the Film Industry Nominated
People's Choice Awards 2013 Favorite Action Movie The Hunger Games Won [180]
Favorite Face of Heroism Jennifer Lawrence
Favorite Movie The Hunger Games
Favorite Movie Actress Jennifer Lawrence
Favorite Movie Fan Following Tributes Nominated
Favorite Movie Franchise The Hunger Games Won
Favorite On-Screen Chemistry Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson & Liam Hemsworth
Critics' Choice Awards 2013 Best Actress in an Action Movie Jennifer Lawrence [181]
Golden Globe Awards 2013 Best Original Song Safe & Sound Nominated [182]
Santa Barbara International Film Festival 2013 Outstanding Performance of the Year Jennifer Lawrence Won [183]
NAACP Image Awards 2013 Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture Lenny Kravitz Nominated [184]
Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture Amandla Stenberg
Black Reel Awards 2013 Best Breakthrough Performance [185]
Grammy Awards 2013 Best Country Duo/Group Performance Safe & Sound [186]
Best Song Written for Visual Media Abraham's Daughter
Safe & Sound Won
Costume Designers Guild Awards 2013 Excellence in Costume Design for Film - Fantasy Judianna Makovsky [187]
Excellence in Fantasy Film Nominated
JIM Awards 2013 Beste Film (Best Film) The Hunger Games Won [188]
Kids' Choice Awards 2013 Favorite Female Buttkicker Jennifer Lawrence Nominated [189]
Favorite Movie The Hunger Games Won
Favorite Movie Actress Jennifer Lawrence Nominated
Empire Awards 2013 Best Actress Won [190]
Bravo Ottos 2013 Super-Kino-Star (Super Movie Star) Nominated [191]
Josh Hutcherson
Liam Hemsworth
Nebula Awards 2013 Ray Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation The Hunger Games [192]
Saturn Awards 2013 Best Actress Jennifer Lawrence Won [193]
Best Science Fiction Film The Hunger Games Nominated
Bram Stoker Awards 2013 Superior Achievement in Screenplay Gary Ross, Suzanne Collins and Billy Ray [194]
Hugo Awards 2013 Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form The Hunger Games Pending [195]
Constellation Awards 2013 Best Female Performance in a 2012 Science Fiction Film, TV Movie, or Mini-Series. Jennifer Lawrence Nominated [196]
Best Science Fiction Film, TV Movie, or Mini-Series of 2012. The Hunger Games
Themes[edit]
Interpretations of the film's themes and messages have been widely discussed among critics and other commentators. In his review for The Washington Times, Peter Suderman expressed that "[m]aybe it's a liberal story about inequality and the class divide. Maybe it's a libertarian epic about the evils of authoritarian government. Maybe it's a feminist revision on the sci-fi action blockbuster. Maybe it's a bloody satire of reality television", but concludes the film only proposes these theories and brings none of them to a reasonable conclusion.[197]
Feminism[edit]
Reviewers and critics have differing views on whether the film represents feminist issues. Historically, among the "top 200 worldwide box-office hits ever ($350 million and up), not one has been built around a female action star".[198] Manohla Dargis sees Katniss Everdeen as a female hero following in the lineage of "archetypal figures in the literature of the American West" such as Natty Bumppo, as well as characters portrayed by American actors such as John Wayne and Clint Eastwood.[199] Katniss is also seen as defying normative gender roles: she exhibits both "masculine" and "feminine" traits equally.[199] Dargis also notes that Katniss is a female character with significant agency: "Katniss is a fantasy figure, but partly what makes her powerful—and, I suspect, what makes her so important to a lot of girls and women—is that she's one of the truest feeling, most complex female characters to hit American movies in a while. She isn't passive, she isn't weak, and she isn't some random girl. She's active, she's strong and she's the girl who motivates the story."[199] Similarly, Shelley Bridgeman of The New Zealand Herald wrote that because the characteristics of "athleticism, strength, courageousness and prowess at hunting" are not given to a male protagonist, but to Katniss, her character is an abrupt departure from the stereotypical depiction of women as being innately passive or helpless.[200] Mahvesh Murad of the The Express Tribune said that the film's triumph is "a young female protagonist with agency", comparing her with Joss Whedon's Buffy Summers.[201]
Politics[edit]
The film has drawn varying interpretations for its political overtones, including arguments in favor of left-wing, right-wing, and libertarian viewpoints. Bob Burnett of The Huffington Post observed the film displays a general distrust of government, regardless of the audience's political party affiliation.[202] Steven Zeitchik and Emily Rome, in the Dallas Morning News, also stated that some viewers formed an opinion about The Hunger Games as a parable of the Occupy Wall Street activity.[203] The Huffington Post reported that Penn Badgley, a supporter of Occupy Wall Street, saw the film as a social commentary on the movement.[204] Burnett also states that "Collins doesn't use the terms 1 percent and 99 percent, but it's clear that those in the Capitol are members of the 1 percent and everyone in the Panem districts is part of the 99 percent".[202]
Religion[edit]
Steven Zeitchik and Emily Rome, in the Los Angeles Times and the Dallas Morning News reported that, among other disparate interpretations, some viewers saw The Hunger Games as a Christian allegory.[205][206] Jeffrey Weiss of Real Clear Religion, published in the Star Tribune has remarked on what he saw as the intentional absence of religion in The Hunger Games universe, and has commented that whilst the stories contain no actual religion, people are "find[ing] aspects that represent their own religious values" within it.[207] Donald Brake from The Washington Times, as well as Andy Langford, senior pastor at Central United Methodist Church in Concord, North Carolina and his daughter, Ann G. L. Duncan, a pastor at Hoyle Memorial United Methodist Church in Shelby, North Carolina, wrote that the film has Christian themes, such as that of self-sacrifice, which is found in Katniss' substitution for her younger sister, analogous to the sacrifice of Jesus as a substitute for the atonement of sins.[208][209] Brake, as well as another reviewer, Amy Simpson, both find that the film also revolves around the theme of hope, which is exemplified in the "incorruptible goodness of Katniss' sister, Primrose".[210] She also describes that Peeta Mellark is "a Christ figure" in the film.[211] Similar to the events in the passion, death, and resurrection of Jesus, in the Games, Peeta is stabbed and left for dead after saving Katniss' life—taking the wound that was initially meant for her—and is then buried in the ground and placed in a cave for three days before emerging with a new lease on life.[212] Moreover, the Christian image of the Bread of Life is used throughout The Hunger Games; in the film, Peeta shows up "bearing a warm loaf of bread", and Katniss slowly comes "back to life".[213] A news video starring Jonathan Morris aired on Fox News discussed the religious themes in the film further.[214] In addition, many pastors have written Bible studies discussing the Christian allegories in the film.[215][216]
Sequels[edit]
Main article: The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
On August 8, 2011, while still shooting the film, Lionsgate announced that a film adaptation of the second novel in The Hunger Games trilogy, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, was scheduled to be released on November 22, 2013.[217] In November 2011, Lionsgate entered negotiations with screenwriter Simon Beaufoy to adapt the novel for screen, since the post-production schedule for The Hunger Games was too crowded for Ross and Collins to adapt the next film as originally planned.[218] The Hunger Games: Catching Fire began production in the summer of 2012.[219] Gary Ross will not return for Catching Fire, and instead Francis Lawrence will direct.[220][221][222][223] On May 6, 2012, it was reported that Michael Arndt was in talks to re-write the script for Catching Fire.[224] Arndt officially signed on as the new script writer on May 24, 2012.[225]
In July 2012, release dates were confirmed for two films based on the last book Mockingjay. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1 will be released November 21, 2014 and The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 2 will be released November 20, 2015.[226] Lawrence, Hutcherson, Hemsworth, and Harrelson have all signed on to the whole franchise.[3][227] The Hunger Games: Catching Fire began filming September 10, 2012, and concluded December 21, 2012.[228]
See also[edit]

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The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

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The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Catching-Fire poster.jpg
Theatrical release poster

Directed by
Francis Lawrence
Produced by
Nina Jacobson
 Jon Kilik[1]
Screenplay by
Simon Beaufoy
Michael Arndt
Based on
Catching Fire
 by Suzanne Collins
Starring
Jennifer Lawrence
Josh Hutcherson
Liam Hemsworth
Woody Harrelson
Elizabeth Banks
Lenny Kravitz
Phillip Seymour Hoffman
Jeffrey Wright
Stanley Tucci
Donald Sutherland
Music by
James Newton Howard
Cinematography
Jo Willems[1]
Editing by
Alan Edward Bell[1]
Studio
Color Force
Distributed by
Lionsgate
Release date(s)
November 11, 2013 (Premiere)
November 22, 2013 (United States)

Running time
146 minutes
Country
United States
Language
English
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire is an upcoming American science-fiction adventure film based on Suzanne Collins' novel, Catching Fire, the second installment in The Hunger Games trilogy. The film is the sequel to The Hunger Games, and the second installment in The Hunger Games film series, produced and distributed by Lionsgate. Francis Lawrence is set to direct a screenplay from Simon Beaufoy and Michael Arndt. Academy Award winner Jennifer Lawrence returns as Katniss Everdeen along with Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Woody Harrelson, Lenny Kravitz, Elizabeth Banks, Stanley Tucci, Donald Sutherland, Toby Jones and Willow Shields also reprising their roles.
Months before the release of The Hunger Games, Lionsgate greenlit the second film and Gary Ross, director of the first film, was expected to return as director. However, on April 10, 2012, he announced his departure from the project due to the tight and fixed production and on May 3, Francis Lawrence was hired as the film's director. Throughout July and September 2012, the film's supporting cast was filled out, with Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Sam Claflin, Jena Malone, Lynn Cohen, Meta Golding, Amanda Plummer and Jeffrey Wright brought in to portray key roles. Filming began September 10, 2012 in and around metropolitan Atlanta, Georgia before moving to Hawaii. The Hunger Games: Catching Fire is scheduled to be released in IMAX on November 22, 2013 in the United States.

Contents
  [hide] 1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Production 3.1 Pre-production
3.2 Casting
3.3 Filming
3.4 Costumes
4 Soundtrack
5 Marketing 5.1 TheHungerGamesExplorer
6 Reception 6.1 Accolades
7 Sequels
8 See also
9 References
10 External links
Plot[edit]
After winning the 74th Annual Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) returns home to District 12 along with fellow winner Peeta Mellark (Josh Hutcherson). Shortly after returning home, they must embark on a "Victory Tour" of the districts, leaving behind their close friends and family again. On the day of the Victory Tour, President Snow (Donald Sutherland) threatens Katniss' best friend and pretend cousin, Gale Hawthorne, outraged after she and Peeta broke the rules of the 74th Hunger Games that allowed them both to win. During the tour, Katniss senses that a rebellion is brewing in the districts, but the Capitol is still firmly in control as Snow prepares the 75th Annual Hunger Games, known as a Quarter Quell, an event taken place every 25 years – a competition that could change Panem forever.
In this Hunger Games, the tributes will be reaped from the existing pool of victors, making all the other Games look like child's play. As Peeta and Katniss end up in the arena again (as the only victors of District 12 with the exception of Haymitch), this time surrounded by experienced and vicious killers, President Snow is determined to eliminate them and destroy the rays of hope and the sparks of rebellions brewing up in the Districts. Now Katniss and Peeta must do whatever it takes to defeat their foes and come out on top once again and ignite the flames of rebellion in Panem.
Cast[edit]
Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss Everdeen
Josh Hutcherson as Peeta Mellark
Liam Hemsworth as Gale Hawthorne
Woody Harrelson as Haymitch Abernathy
Elizabeth Banks as Effie Trinket
Lenny Kravitz as Cinna
Philip Seymour Hoffman as Plutarch Heavensbee[2]
Jeffrey Wright as Beetee
Stanley Tucci as Caesar Flickerman
Donald Sutherland as President Snow
Toby Jones as Claudius Templesmith
Sam Claflin as Finnick Odair[3]
Jena Malone as Johanna Mason[4]
Lynn Cohen as Mags[5]
Amanda Plummer as Wiress[6]
Meta Golding as Enobaria[7]
Bruno Gunn as Brutus[8]
Alan Ritchson as Gloss[9]
E. Roger Mitchell as Chaff[10]
Maria Howell as Seeder[11]
Stephanie Leigh Schlund as Cashmere[12]
Elena Sanchez as Cecelia[13]
Bobby Jordan as Blight[14]
John Casino as Woof[13]
Willow Shields as Primrose Everdeen[13]
Paula Malcomson as Mrs. Everdeen[13]
Patrick St. Esprit as Romulus Thread
Production[edit]
Pre-production[edit]
Lionsgate announced that a film adaptation of Catching Fire will be released as The Hunger Games: Catching Fire on November 22, 2013,[15] as a sequel to the film adaptation of The Hunger Games, with principal photography to take place in September 2012. Simon Beaufoy was hired to write the script for the film and wrote two drafts[16] before leaving after Gary Ross, director of The Hunger Games decided not to direct the sequel. The shooting timeframe was co-ordinated between Lionsgate and 20th Century Fox, in order to allow time for Jennifer Lawrence to shoot X-Men: Days of Future Past, the sequel to Fox's X-Men: First Class, in January 2013.[17]
On April 10, 2012, it was announced that Gary Ross, director of The Hunger Games, would not return due to a 'tight' and 'fitted' schedule.[18] Bennett Miller, Joe Cornish, Francis Lawrence and Juan Antonio Bayona were all being considered to direct the new film.[19] On April 19, 2012, it was announced that Francis Lawrence was offered the director position for the film. According to sources, the adaptation must be done filming by December 2012 to fit Jennifer Lawrence's schedule.[20] However, after X-Men: Days of Future Past lost its original director[21] and shooting for the film was delayed till April 2013,[22] Jennifer Lawrence was no longer needed to be filming in January 2013 and the shooting timeframe for The Hunger Games: Catching Fire was extended to March (including several breaks due to the holidays and awards season).[23] Lionsgate officially announced Francis Lawrence as the director for Catching Fire on May 3, 2012.[24] Two days later, it was reported that Michael Arndt (Toy Story 3, Little Miss Sunshine) is in talks to re-write the script for Catching Fire.[25] On May 24, 2012, the film was renamed The Hunger Games: Catching Fire[26] and Arndt was confirmed as the new writer of the script.[27] The film will feature sequences filmed in the IMAX format.[28]


"Lionsgate, the cast, and filmmakers are all thrilled to have Francis Lawrence come on board as director of Catching Fire. Suzanne's brilliant book is the intense story of the birth of the rebellion and Katniss' emotionally charged journey as she takes on the mantle of the Mockingjay, and we all think Francis is the perfect director to bring the story to life who has already exhibited immense creative vision and resourcefulness in casting the film and planning its look and feel. The stakes are raised in every way in this second story, and we are thrilled to get the production underway in these perfect locations, with our excellent returning cast and some world class actors in new roles."
—Erik Feig, Lionsgate’s President Of Production, on the film and director.[1]
Casting[edit]
In July 2012, it was announced that Jena Malone would portray Johanna Mason,[29] that Amanda Plummer would portray Wiress, and that Philip Seymour Hoffman would portray Plutarch Heavensbee.[30] Following this, in August 2012, it was announced that Lynn Cohen had been cast as Mags.[31] Alan Ritchson was cast as Gloss on August 9,[32] Sam Claflin as Finnick Odair on August 22.[33] and Jeffrey Wright as Beetee on September 7.[34]
Filming[edit]
Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson and Liam Hemsworth all dyed their hair for the movie once again. Lawrence went back to training to get in shape for the role[35] while the supporting cast undertook training in preparation for the arena scenes.
Production officially began on September 10, 2012 with shooting concluding for some of the cast on December 21, 2012.[36] After the Christmas break, filming resumed for two weeks in mid January for some of the main cast[37] and was placed on hold for awards season. Principal photography resumed and concluded in March 2013.[38] Shooting first took place in and around metropolitan Atlanta, Georgia and then moved to Hawaii, to shoot the arena scenes.[39] The cast and crew were on a busy schedule, working 14-hour days and six days a week. In an interview with MTV, Josh Hutcherson confirmed scenes in the film will use IMAX cameras by stating, "They're shooting, I think, all the stuff in the arena is going to be IMAX".[40] Jennifer Lawrence and Liam Hemsworth were in New Jersey shooting District 12 scenes involving snow for the beginning of the film on January 31 and February 1.[41] Jennifer Lawrence confirmed that she would fly out to Hawaii on February 25, the day after the 85th Academy Awards to shoot for the final 9 days along with Claflin and Hutcherson.
In late March, filming occurred in the Universal Studios back lot and was kept extremely secretive. Witnesses reported of towers and fences on set. None of the main cast are believed to have been on set.[42] Reshoots were scheduled on April 13 in Atlanta. Base camp was set up at Executive Park off North Druid Hills Road. Filming also occurred at Goat Farm Art Center in Atlanta.[43]
Francis Lawrence confirmed at CinemaCon that shooting for Catching Fire has ended and editing is currently in session.[44]
Francis Lawrence estimates an hour of Arena scenes. Unlike the first movie, cameras will be mounted to avoid the shaky-cam look that was present previously.[45] In an IMAX featurette, Francis Lawrence also confirmed that scenes taking place in the Arena will be shot on IMAX cameras to distinguish them from scenes external to the Arena.[46]
Costumes[edit]
According to THR, Sarah Burton, creative director at Alexander McQueen, gave pieces of McQueen's collection to costume designer Trish Summerville.[47] An outfit worn by Elizabeth Banks as Effie Trinket in an officially released film portrait appears identical to a piece from McQueen's fall/winter 2012 collection.
Soundtrack[edit]
Main article: The Hunger Games: Catching Fire Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
In October 2012, composer James Newton Howard confirmed that he will return to score the film.[48] British singer Ed Sheeran recorded three songs especially for the soundtrack, but Lionsgate refused the proposal.[49] On May 14, 2013, Alexandra Patsavas was listed in the credits as the new music supervisor, replacing T Bone Burnett from the first film. Coldplay were announced as the first official artist to be featured on the Catching Fire soundtrack album, with their new song "Atlas", released worldwide on September 6, 2013.[50] Christina Aguilera has announced that her new song, "We Remain", will be part of the official soundtrack of the film. [51] Other artists that are featured on the global soundtrack include Of Monsters and Men with "Silhouettes," Sia (ft. The Weeknd & Diplo) with "Elastic Heart," The National with "Lean," The Weeknd with "Devil May Cry," Imagine Dragons with "Who We Are," Lorde with "Everybody Wants To Rule The World," The Lumineers with "Gale Song," Ellie Goulding with "Mirror," Patti Smith with "Capital Letter," Santigold with "Shooting Arrows At The Sky," Mikky Ekko with "Place For Us,” Phantogram with "Lights," and Antony and the Johnsons with "Angel On Fire."[52]
Marketing[edit]
On November 16, 2012, the first teaser trailer was released with The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 and revealed the official logo and tagline for the film.[53] Lionsgate announced a sweepstakes competition where 12 fans will have their name listed in the film's credits. On January 11, 2013, Entertainment Weekly released a 2013 Preview edition of their magazine, with the first look of Lawrence as Katniss and Claflin as Finnick on the cover as well as several stills showcasing scenes from the film.[54] On February 22, both Hitfix and the official Facebook page debut two viral posters of the Victory Tour featuring Jennifer Lawrence (Katniss) and Josh Hutcherson (Peeta).[55]
On January 28, CapitolCouture.PN, a promotional site for the film's fashion and culture, opened and could only be unlocked with a passcode. Once in, a picture of a blue chair appeared and told readers to check back on March 4. On March 4 the site began to release portraits of the various characters.[56][57][58][59][60][61][62]
The teaser trailer debuted at the 2013 MTV Movie Awards on April 14, presented by Liam Hemsworth, and the trailer would be posted on TheHungerGamesExplorer after the ceremony.[63] Beyond Fire by TTL was played as the trailer music.[64]
On May 14, 2013, a new poster for the film was released.
An exclusive new trailer debuted at the San Diego Comic-Con International on July 20, 2013.[65] An international trailer was released a few days later. Walmart released the first TV spot on their Facebook page on October 14, featuring Coldplay's song, Atlas.[66]
TheHungerGamesExplorer[edit]
Alongside the announcement of the teaser trailer premiering at the 2013 MTV Movie Awards, Lionsgate revealed a new website called TheHungerGamesExplorer. On April 10, the website was updated and fans had to tweet using the hashtag #HungerGamesExplorer to unlock new stills from the movie. A still could be unlocked every day leading up to April 14, 2013, the teaser trailer's release date.
Reception[edit]
Accolades[edit]
List of awards and nominations

Award
Category
Recipients and nominees
Result
Source
Golden Trailer Awards 2013 Best Action Poster The Hunger Games: Catching Fire Nominated [67]
Best Independent Poster Victory Tour Close Up
Hollywood Film Awards 2013 Best Song Atlas Won [68]
Sequels[edit]
Main article: The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1
Lionsgate announced that it will split the third installment of the series, Mockingjay, into two films, releasing Part 1 on November 21, 2014, and Part 2 on November 20, 2015;[69] this is similar to the last book of Harry Potter and Twilight series, which both split into two movies. On November 1, 2012, it was confirmed that Francis Lawrence will return to direct the final two movies, which will be filmed back to back.[70] On December 6, two-time Emmy winner Danny Strong announced that he will be writing the third and fourth films' screenplay.[71] On January 23, 2013, Francis Lawrence confirmed that he, along with producers Nina Jacobson and Jon Kilik, as well as author of the novel Suzanne Collins, have gone through the book and has provided the beat-sheet (outline) for the films and that Danny Strong is in the process of writing the script.[72] On February 15, Lionsgate confirmed that Strong had completed the script for Part 1 and the studio has approved it, giving him permission to write Part 2.[73] The film began production on September 16, 2013 and will conclude on May 20, 2014 in Boston, Atlanta and Los Angeles.[74] Liam Hemsworth confirmed that shooting for Mockingjay Part 1 and 2 will start in September.[75] It was revealed that Stef Dawson would play Annie Cresta,[76] Natalie Dormer will play Cressida,[77] Evan Ross will play Messalla, Julianne Moore will be President Alma Coin,[78] Lily Rabe will play Commander Lyme,[79] Patina Miller will play Commander Paylor,[80] and Mahershala Ali would play Boggs.[81]
See also[edit]

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