Synopsis
A feature length, eight part documentary that covers everything from pre-production to adapting the source novel to casting to shooting to post and marketing. This is an amazing in-depth piece and it's notable how many women were involved in this production, from several Lionsgate executives to novelist Suzanne Collins herself. Jennifer Lawrence talks about her "hypocrisy" in not wanting to do a big budget blockbuster after having devoted herself to indies (despite X-Men, which she seems to discount somewhat). There's also a nice sequence on the strength and weight training the actors went through and the stunts that are so notable in the film, as well as having to dance around the violence implicit in the story due to the planned PG-13 rating the filmmakers were aiming for.
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Cast
- Suzanne CollinsSelf - Author
- Jennifer LawrenceSelf (Katniss Everdeen)
- Josh HutchersonSelf (Peeta Mellark)
- Liam HemsworthSelf (Gale Hawthorne)
- Donald SutherlandSelf (President Coriolanus Snow)
- Elizabeth BanksSelf (Effie Trinket)
- Lenny KravitzSelf (Cinna)
- Woody HarrelsonSelf (Haymitch Abernathy)
- Stanley TucciSelf (Caesar Flickerman)
- Wes BentleySelf (Seneca Crane)
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