The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Parts 1 & 2

[ComicChick]

i would really love to see these teasers with Snow and now Katniss on public tv. get people talking

 

[slumcat]

And while I really do like the Hunger Games series, there is nothing "understated" about it, including the drama. I am sure the movie will be great, but the teaser is lame imo.

I wouldn't say I am a massive fan of the Hunger Games films but I do admire them for their gravity. They are consistently restrained and I think it makes the small dramatic moments pop very impact-fully. The stakes are high and are played on Jennifer Lawrence's face.

I think this is one series that deserves my respect and money for the intelligence with which they craft their pictures.

 

[psylockolussus]

Not every trailer needs to be a stupid blow-em-up. The Hunger Games series has always gotten by on understated drama than explosions unlike other series.

Agreed!

Nice teaser. One question since I haven't been following production as close as everyone else. What is happening with Hoffman's role since he passed away? I remember hearing he didn't finish filming all his scenes.

From what I read in the internet, they will CGI him.

 

[DA_Champion]

BvS was "Stupid blow-em-up"? It is a guy turning on his expensive night light. Fury Road has one of the most well cut trailers I can remember, so while it might have plenty of explosions, it is the editing and how imagery and music play together, that makes it rock. And while I really do like the Hunger Games series, there is nothing "understated" about it, including the drama. I am sure the movie will be great, but the teaser is lame imo.

Hunger Games movies are restrained on the spectacle-based action. There's not one gratuitous action scene in HG or CF, they all have a clear meaning, for example when the guards execute the protester in district 11, or when Gale tackles that new head cop. They put that in there because it's meaningful to the story not because it looks cool.

It's totally different from Winter Soldier, Days of Future Past, Transformers 4, and Man of Steel.

 

[ComicChick]

 

[ComicChick]

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

So artistic.

 

[JP]

Effie is in 13?

 

[ComicChick]

it's been a long time since i read the book but i seem to remember her being with them?

 

[JP]

From what I remember she was [blackout]MIA most of Mockingjay and believed to be imprisoned by Snow.[/blackout]

 

[Lencho01]

Yeah, I remember reading about the make-up team more than Effie.

 

[ComicChick]

i'm thinking more of the makeup team stuff will fall to effie in the films, since they've hardly even been mentioned by name

 

[Lencho01]

I assume that's the case. Plus, they're bringing even newer characters too.

I don't remember Beetee being in a wheelchair.

 

[DA_Champion]

The visual work for this film has been A+.

 

[Hunter Rider]

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=121967

 

[Lencho01]

http://insidemovies.ew.com/2014/08/18/hunger-games-director-francis-lawrence-mockingjay-part-1/

'Mockingjay' director: Parts 1 and 2 will have 'two distinct stories'

By Nina Terrero on Aug 18, 2014 at 2:51PM

Over the course of two Hunger Games films, Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) has been unflinchingly confident. But in Mockingjay – Part 1, the teen heroine suffers a bout of age-appropriate angst as she reluctantly becomes a rebel leader.

“It’s a very confusing, conflicted, complicated time for Katniss,” says director Francis Lawrence, who also directed 2013’s Catching Fire. “Having gone through the games one more time and having lost Peeta and having been run through the wringer, she’s even more damaged. So you find her in a more agitated place. She’s distraught, confused, angry.”

Collins’ final book presents a gritty narrative about Katniss’ role in the rebellion to overthrow the Capitol, with grim scenes of wartime brutality as the teen heroine struggles with the psychological consequences wrought by violence. But, says Lawrence, the upcoming installment won’t be entirely somber.

“There’s definitely some battles. There’s some of the first glimpses of real war in this movie. And the scale gets quite big,” he reveals. “There’s an atonal shift from some of the last movies, but they’re still very emotional, very sweeping, [on a] grand scale with some levity and humor.”

And there won’t be any major changes from the novel—although Lawrence worked closely with screenwriter Peter Craig, producer Nina Jacobson, and Collins to create new elements that will “surprise even fans of the book.”

“Instead of changing the plot and changing characters what we did was have the opportunity to show scenes that could have been happening at different times in the book,” Lawrence says. “For us it’s world expansion instead of changing things. I think it’s exciting for the fan to see certain things. So we’ve been able to open the world up in this and see some new places. We get to see some new districts this time and the scope gets quite large.”

There’s also the addition of cast member Julianne Moore as rebel President Alma Coin, a character whose role has been expanded for the upcoming films.

“What’s interesting is although she’s a huge character in Mockingjay the book, there’s actually very little of her in it,” notes Lawrence. “There’s more of her in this than in the book and because of that, there’s some development.”

But one thing thing that won’t change? That’d be the love triangle between Katniss (Jennifer Lawrence), Gale (Liam Hemsworth), and Peeta (Josh Hutcherson).

“With Mockingjay – Part I it’s tricky because Peeta is out of reach for her,” notes the director. “Obviously he becomes an objective for her, but Gale is right there, so that’s always a tricky situation.”

While Lawrence won’t reveal how he divided the final book in Suzanne Collins’ trilogy (“That’s going to be one of the really good surprises,” he says), he shares that the films will have “two different, very distinct stories.”

“Those objectives became the motives for us,” Lawrence explains. “This is where the meaning of the entire series comes into play. The answer to why these books exist exists in Mockingjay, and that’s really been exciting to me. That’s been kind of what I’ve hung on to through these stories.”

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1 is slated for release on Nov. 21, 2014.

 

[ComicChick]

i'm looking forward to the world expansion. it was something i'd hope to see more of in the other films, particularly the first

 

[mclay18]

TNT acquired the network premiere rights to both Part 1 & 2, as well as second-run rights to Hunger Games and Catching Fire starting in winter 2015 and 2016. TNT will be able to air all four HG films concurrently by 2018.

http://deadline.com/2014/08/tnt-nabs-rights-to-lionsgates-hunger-games-divergent-franchises-822814/

The first HG film will premiere October 10 on ABC Family at 8 p.m. EST.

 

[Lencho01]

‘The Hunger Games: Mockingjay’ Posters Introduce the Resistance

 

[MadVillainy]

Sick posters. I liked how they placed the actors in front of the Mockingjay so it looks like they have wings.


A bit worried about this one just because of the book and splitting it into two parts. But I'll still be there opening day

 

[Rowsdower!]

Can they make a spinoff movie about Natalie Dormer's character? Something about having half her head shaved like that makes her even hotter and I need as much of that as I can get.

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

Whoever is coming up with this print campaign needs to be winning awards for it.

 

[godisawesome]

I love the way the District13 promos seem to hear ken back towards the old Soviet propaganda and look. Considering Coin's own character, it's rather fitting.

 

[Prison Mike]

TNT acquired the network premiere rights to both Part 1 & 2, as well as second-run rights to Hunger Games and Catching Fire starting in winter 2015 and 2016. TNT will be able to air all four HG films concurrently by 2018.

http://deadline.com/2014/08/tnt-nabs-rights-to-lionsgates-hunger-games-divergent-franchises-822814/

The first HG film will premiere October 10 on ABC Family at 8 p.m. EST.

ABC Family's commercial for Batman Begins was hilarious. I wonder if it will be similar for Hunger Games.

 

[Lencho01]

Can they make a spinoff movie about Natalie Dormer's character? Something about having half her head shaved like that makes her even hotter and I need as much of that as I can get.

I don't remember her character being that interesting.