Fans of The Hunger Games, get excited: the trilogy of books will be spread out into four movies in order to keep the series going for an extra year.
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire will be released November 22, 2013, and The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 November 21, 2014 and The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 November 20, 2015.
The story follows Katniss Everdeen and her fight against the Capitol, the government ruling the post-apocalyptic North American society of Panem. The Capitol randomly picks a boy and a girl ages 12 through 18 from each of the 12 districts for a yearly event called The Hunger Games. In the case of Katniss, they pick her 12-year-old sister, so she instead volunteers. They are transported to an arena to battle to the death until one child remains, and that person is the winner. Oh, and it’s broadcasted for all the districts, who are required to watch who dies.
THG follows in the footsteps of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 and The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 by breaking the final book into two films. Mostly, for two reasons: the third books are much longer, so two movies give filmmakers the opportunity to tell more of the story from the book—and also it rakes in more money for the studio.
The Hunger Games was released in March and made $404 million in the U.S. and $678 million worldwide.
The film stars Jennifer Lawrence as heroine Katniss Everdeen. Her fellow District 12 Hunger Games mate Peeta Mallark is played by Josh Hutcherson, and her life-long friend Gale Hawthorne is played by Liam Hemsworth. Oscar winner Philip Seymour Hoffman just signed on to play gamemaker Plutarch Heavensbee.
This article was originally published on AllMediaNY.com
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