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The Hunger Games coming to the Big Screen
It seems that after the successes of Harry Potter and then Twilight, that the young adult bookshelf might just be the new barrel to which we have yet to see the bottom. Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games book will bring to life the post apocalyptic story of children fighting for entertainment. The second book of the trilogy isn’t out until fall.
The Hunger Games is the first in a trilogy about a near future world where a dictatorship called the Capitol has taken over the world in the wake of a series of disasters. They organize an annual televised event where a boy and girl from each of the twelve districts are forced to participate in a game of survival, killing each other until only one remains.
This really sounds like a bit of the Running Man combined with Lord of the Flies.
The book got some attention in the demographic when Stephanie Meyers (Twilight) took a break from swimming in her sea of money to give it a positive review. But bringing it to the big screen had nothing to do with her approving nods.
I wonder how a Fight Club for Teens would work out considering the violent concept and yet aiming it at the young adult crowd. Certainly a movie doesn’t have to be rated R to convey violence and mortal fear, but it will be a delicate balance.
I look forward to seeing how this plays out.
I’ve heard many good things about the book though it reminds me of Battle Royale when I think of kids being pitted against each other. The book is on my kid’s to-read-list once she is done with the four books we bought a couple of months ago…of course, I gotta get her to put down those Death Note comics first. LoL
definitely sounds very battle royal, but with cheese.
hey im 16 years old. i LOVED this book and am excited for it to hit the big screens it is 100 % my favoret book even more then the twilight saga
This is my fav aswell. If youve read thye next book give me an email my friends don’t read much so id like to chat. Have youy heard much about the next? Plz reply thnx :)
dont know if thats sounds good, i loved battle royale (book and movie) would it be worth me checking out the books
it was an aboustly amazing book, defintly my favourite
I thought Battle Royale as well…
LoL, I’m not the only one who thought of Battle Royale. This should be interesting, but I’ll hold my opinions until I actually see something.
they should freaking make a movie!!!!
they are
this movie if it is to be as good as the book it must be R to see all of what the book explained it must be R unless it will be cut short for what it was and not to it’s full value.
See, for a minute there I thought you had written “THEY Hunger” as in the old Half Life mod. I was totally all excitedory momentarily until I realised my grand slydexic error.
Then I got sad.
kids beating up each other for candy?? that sounds morbid lol
lol, for candy? you mean.. for their lives??
They kill each other, not for candy.
How is this related to harry potter?
Neat thing about the post is that I already spelled it out in the very first line. Guess you didn’t read it.
“It seems that after the successes of Harry Potter and then Twilight, that the young adult bookshelf might just be the new barrel to which we have yet to see the bottom.”
Please let it be made into a movie! It’s a very awesome book. I just finished it today and I already can’t wait for the next one. :D I was thinking about three-quarters of the way through how awesome it would be as a movie. If they can make other movies with fighting P-13 then they can do this one. After all, I think Harry Potter 6 is only PG and it’s probably the freakiest one.
i loved this book too. and can’t wait for the second book!
The Hunger Games is an awesome book! Suzanne Collins is a great writer. This book shows what actually could happin in the future if u think about it… our goverment is taking us over more more each day.
I think ‘The Hunger Games’ is going to be an awesome movie!
It should absolutely NOT be made into a movie!!! Every single movie that has come from a really good heart stopping book has sucked so badly it brings me to tears. I almost didn’t go and see Harry Potter 6, but in the end I had to and was so severely dissapointed. If they make the Hunger Games a movie, I swear I will lead a full scale rebellion!!!
Well you know that a movie will never be as great as a book because its in you mind. The thing that is great when they make a book into a movie you actually get to see what was really going on besides your imagination. Of course A movie will be better then a book its just common sense!
I really wish they won’t make this movie. I love Battle Royale and I heard they’re making an American movie out of that book. If they make a movie of the Hunger Games it may just sound like a copy of Battle Royale.
I hope they do, but it better damn right NOT be butchered just to make it “age-appropriate”. Eragon and the sequel books were amazing, the movie Eragon just stunk. Same with “Alex Rider: Operation Stormbreaker”. Great book, butchered movie. If a movie for the hunger games IS made, it better be damn good. There are endless ways to replicate the book’s violence well within “PG-13″ boundaries.
I totally agree, and this is wayy different from battle royale for those people who are already judging it without actually reading it. And about making it a PG-13 movie, I don’t think it’ll be hard. The Lord of the Rings trilogy had tons of blood and gore and violence, and they were still PG-13.
I love the book!!! I really hope they turn it into a movie.. and if they don’t well, the book is amazing!
I really am excited for this movie! But I sincerely hope it will be Rated-R or else it would probably be very lame.
..gosh all everyone can say is that this sounds like a copy of Battle Royale. Can there not be two of a somewhat similar idea? Not giving The Hunger Games a chance is like not giving Watchmen a chance just because you didn’t like The Dark Knight or something. Sure, they’re both superhero movies, but they are definitely both worth seeing. Different plots, one is way more graphic, etc. I think that’s how The Hunger Games/Battle Royale are.. somewhat same idea, but incomparable.
Because a book aimed at young adults and teens should be rated R?
I think it’s lame to assume everything needs to be R.
I completely agree. The book is geared toward young adults. Why make it into a movie that the target audience won’t be able to see?
People just need to learn to separate books from their movies. You can’t expect a movie to be EXACTLY like the book or they’d all be like 13 hours long.
I also agree that people who have not read this book need to stop judging it until they do. That is a pet peave of mine.
Actually I suppose PG-13 would work, I guess it’s more of a matter on how well they make the movie. It would be disappointing if they took away from the intensity of the novel by keeping it in the PG-13 limits.
I think either PG 13 or 14A
I think the book was absolutly amazing. I’m excited for the movie and book two.
Its like a normal teen book, its a love story. just like twilight or those other movies/books.
its cute. you should read it
The book is fantastic, I believe it will make a great film. As for the second book, I have read it and it too is a phenomonal read.
you’ve read catching fire?!?!?! OMG that doesn’t come out till september! sooooo jealous right now!
Hunger Games is NOT like Twilight! The love story is a sideline, and it’s not a typical love story anyway, cause they don’t actually get together. The games themselves are the main story line.
THANK YOU! The love story isn’t the central point of the story, it’s just something that happens. It’s like saying Harry’s hatred for Snape is the main point of the Harry Potter books! It’s not! It’s just something that happens IN the main plot line. Sure it’s essential for the end result and the second book, but it is most cetrtainly NOT the main plot. The Hunger Games was an action book for sure.
OMG i loved this book!
im so excited!! ahhh!!
they should totally get selena gomez to play katniss :) she would be amazing
no
Hell no….her forehead is huge and she looks like she is ten years old.
i think demi lovato would play katniss good.
are you kidding? any actor from disney would kill the movie. they’re not talented or mature enough for a role like that
I suppose that you’re kinda right about that… Who do you thik would be good for the part alesana? =]
They shouldn’t go the Twilight route and get a new actor, but I also think they shouldn’t even attempt to get a mainstream actress, they’d try to mess it all up. Someone D-list or something. With ACTUAL talent.
That is exactly what I thought when I first read the book!
no way, she’s too disney for the hunger games, if you know what i mean. Katniss is too mature to be played by selena gomez
This was a great book i finished a day ago. I would love a movie I just wish LionGates would give use more details and trailers about it. Its hard to believe that I’m ready to read the next book and it doesn’t come out until Sept. 9, 2009 :(
I know right! I cant wait that long:(
I know Im just as disapointed as you. I cant wait!!! Supposed to be about the capitol thinking there tring to up stand them or something like start another won BUT I DONT CARE I JUST WANNA READ AND SEE IF PETA AND KATNISS END UP TO GATHHER OR GALE AND KATNISS ITS SOOO ……THRILLING xD
Believe me when I say the second book is well worth the wait. I devoured it and am now wishing for the third.
Same here! I just finished the second and I can’t wait to read the third. I can’t wait to see whether it will be Peeta or Gale! :)
oh my gosh I finished Catching Fire THE DAY AFTER I BOUGHT IT! It was amazing and and it’s going to be complete torture waiting for the third!
Okay so I read the book and It was SOOOOOOO AWESOME!
I loved it and i couldnt put it down….. When I read that Peeta loved Katniss I gasped in awe. But he says hes lying but I knew he really loved her all along! Sorry if this ruins the book for you
same here. its so sweet. i knew all along he wasn’t lying and i think that she loves him as much as he loves her. i think she’s loved him since he gave her the bread. im absolutely dreading what will happen in catching fire. that they will get in a fight, and she’ll say the wrong thing and peeta will leave and katniss will be all depressed. ugh. i hope suzanne doesn’t go down that road. i’ve read about enough heartbreak.
I’ve read the book 3 times and i love it. In my opinion, I think they SHOULD make this into a movie and i don’t give a crap if its M or MA or R. If they can make twilight into a movie and that, they can makes this into a movie. guys its really good. You may say you dont want this to be a movie because it will be like Battle of What ever it is but it wont be the same. If they think its the smae they’ll change it a little like twilight and HP anywho Im trying to say “dont count your eggs befor ethey hatch!”
Sorry if this offends anyone :)Just saying my opinion and you all have yours
i agree. though i didnt much like twilight the movie the books were awesome. i hope that if they do make this one a movie it will be good and they find someone who can act better than kristen stewart.
Lol. i agree – wouldn’t it just kill the book if the movie had Kristen Stewart? i love twilight and i watched the movies but Kristen was the wrong choice. my point being – omg dont get kristen for katniss.
haha! thanks Amie!
i love the hunger games so much i cant wait till the movie comes out( if there is one)
I really can’t imagine this being a movie at all.I’m near the end,but this is going to be the kind of movie that totally screws up the book,which has happened multiple times in the past.
Okay, I’m definately a fan of the Hunger Games. ITs so different, yet simular. It reads like a movie, so why not make it a movie?
I must disagree that this books is sumilar to Lord Of The Flies. I can see where you might get that, but it really isnt. There are simular themes, and maybe even motifs, but it is and amazing book, and its unique!
I CANNOT WAIT!
I loved this book, and I think it would make an awesome movie if they did it right. The only reason I’m against it being a movie is because I like to imagine the characters for myself, not the actors in the movie. It always makes me so mad when people see the movie but they havn’t read the book, and they had no clue it WAS a book..most of the time the book is better.
okay, so i loved this book loads!
i did have doubts when i first heard of it though cos i read and watched battle royale and thought the hunger games sounded like a corny rip-off to be honest,
I was very wrong!
im slightly worried that it will be a crap film though and ruin the book for me comletly. – like twilight…..
Omg I love this book and those of you who are saying that it is like battle royal you’re totally wrong! this book is the best book ever and I reallllllllly want the sequal to come out! i can’t wait… as for the movie i’m kinda scared it will mess up the book! and yes i love peeta
I love this book! It is the best book I’ve ever read and those of you who think its just a copy of battle royal are totally wrong! I can’t wait for Catching fire! I’m dieing for it! As for the book I’m kinda worried that it will just dissapoint me because the book will prolly be better! And yes I love Peeta!
i just finished reading the book and it is awesome!!!!!! i can’t wait for the second book to come out in september!!!!!! I’m so excited!!! I finished the first one in two days because I couldn’t put it down. At all!!!!!! It was amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :P
the book was great
and if they do make a movie then it better be damn good movie and not ruin the book up
Kellan Lutz should be Peeta and that Kevin guy gale and Camille ? from push should be Katniss
I don’t know about Kellan Lutz isn’t quite boyish enough for Peeta, Kellanis just to brawny.
Does anyone read books anymore? For all of you who are completely off topic, go back and read the book. It is nothing like Battle Royale except that both books deal with adolescents. Seriously people…. READ!!!!
lol. in complete agreement.
it’s more of a love story if anything,
plus, i love the game. (even though its horrible)
I can’t wait for the movie, and the next book (:
it’s such a good adventure!
gosh thats such a great book im glad their gonna make a movie about just please dont mess it up dont ruin it thats all im saying cause that my favorite book n i cant wait till catching fire comes out n the third and final book too…but i cant wait till the movies thanks lionsgate n its such a great book
It would be a great movie if they don’t cut
out parts so becomes pg13. Its very intense and I love GALE!!!
Considering its aimed at young teens I guarantee you it will be PG13.
They don’t have to cut out parts to make it PG13, just be more creative in what they imply instead of directly show.
greatest book ive ever read, and selena gomez should be katniss cuz shes a babe
i think Paula Brancati should play Katniss. like seriously Selena can play a good wizard but seriously i think not. Selena just has that thing about her i don’t think she would make a good starving huntress.
love this book so much read it on the first day got it. Didnt put it down. Hope it becomes a movie
omg this book was amazing and i think i could b foxface! i really do think i could handle her act! And i’m a teen and everything! if your a movie critic, contact me! i have natural red hair and i’m about 5′3”. Thanks! Also these books are amazing i can’t wait to buy the second, is there going to b a third??? i really really hope so, also i dont think the younger audiences would react badly to people our age being killed and tourchered on TV, i mean in our time, isnt that the definition of hollywood? Also i think we could really relate, thank you!
I think the Hunger Games should be a movie. It would be action packed. I have heard good things about the book and the awaiting sequel.
i cant wait for the movie to come out!!!!!
This movie better be rated “R” if it is to be as good as the book. If this movie is converted into a childrens movie then i swear to never watch it due to a loss of about half of all content in the story. That would be terrible. CAN’T WAIT!!!
There is no way that a book aimed at teens is going to be rated R no matter what content you fabricate for the novel.
The book is published by Schoolastic and is available for my grade 7 son to order on his most recent order form.
This doesnt need to be R
I think the movie should be rated R. I mean, the action and fighting during the Hunger Games, give it the appeal. It also shows how CHILDREN can be so brutal all for the enjoyment of the “Capitol.” I’ve read the first 2 books and they’re absolutely amazing.
Hopefully The Hunger Games movies don’t ruin the book (the way Twilight did). However, how are they going to convey Katniss’s thoughts and planning while she’s in the Games, since it’s such a huge part of the book…Only time will tell.
Apparently you didnt read Twilight. The movie doesn’t “ruin” the book. The movie has no impact on the content of the book at all.
This will also NOT be rated R, as it is a book aimed at teens.
And it wont be rated R but it cant possibly be pg 13 either considering the amount of violence in it. Even though it is aimed at teens, in the book kids murder other kids is grotesque and awful horrible ways. And i do think the rating would be a little higher on the scale but not so high as to be rated R. Still we have to worry when and if this is realsed if they will lower the amount of viloence to appeal to the younger audience hence ruinging the plot or upping the rating to accmodate the book better into the movie?
I don’t think people that haven’t read the book can reasonably comment about anything about it or the movie.
Though at first it may seem Lord of the Flies and Fight Club, but the book in much more evolved than that.
Though everything that happens is revolved around the battle-royale situation, the events and characters and emotions themselves make a story all by themselves.
Ido think it will be hard to pull off alot of the undercurrents of emotions, reasoning, and decisions, but I really hope they do get it.
If pulled off, it would be AMAZING.
i think the movie would be completly amazing since this book is the best book i have ever read and i have read A Lot of books. i think that the movie would be hard to create because of the in dpeth thinkging we get from katniss in the book, and you cant possibly put all her emotion onto the screen since in the movie you cant be inside a characters head the whole time. which is one of the only flaws i see in making this movie. I think this is a terrific idea and whether they can pull it off sucsessfully or not you can count on it that iwill be counting off the days until it is realased to theaters (:
this book was great and so was catching fire they should make a movie as long as they dont rpae the series like the eragon or harry potter movies
they did not rpae the harry potter series. too much. i could have done with some of the scenes they left out but nonetheless they were good.
Cant wait till the movie!!!
Hah, Stephenie Meyer = NOT WORTHY.
Twilight had the POTENTIAL to be good…but she had to go and destroy it in the next three books, huh?
So I don’t see why she’s so influential.
The Hunger Games (and Catching Fire) is awesome, aside from the few grammatical errors. Very intense, unexpected, and never cuts away near the climax of the story. I LOVE IT.
seriously, when you read twilight then the other 3 books, they seem compleatly diffrent. like youre reading the sequels to some other book. she went too far with the whole love plot.
I just finally read catching fire and loved it. And a agree with some of the people about how the book reads like a movie. When I was reading I could see how everything was layed out. But I’m also torn, because I don’t want them to down play anything they can’t take out any of the fighting scenes. The book is targeting a young adult audience so a of 13 rating would be appropriate. An. Please stop saying selena homes would be good for katnisd , she won’t be.
agreed with u
OMG I CAN’T WAIT UNTIL THE MOVIE COMES OUT I FELL IN LOVE WITH THE BOOKS! IHOPE IT COMES OUT SOON IM DYING TOO SEE IT!!!!!! :D PEETA <3
P.S I COULD NOT PUT THE BOOK DOWN IT WAS WAY TOO AMAZING! I EVEN CRIED! I HOPE THERE IS A MOVIE I WOULD TOTALLY GET IT!
iv read the book but im wondering about when its going to be out in aus
Just finished catching fire!!! The ending was shocking!
just finished catching fire I was so amazed!
hey yer i think that it would be a great movie, i have read the book too and i dont think that i have ever been more glued to a book in my life.. im reading the second one now and i think it is also amazing and i agree it is better then twilight and happry potter.. it has more adventure and it a much more interesting read.. it also has all the romance that everyone likes but it shows it in a different way to all other teenage books… seriously if u havent read it i would totally recomend it its amazing :)… i cant wait till it comes out onto the big screen and yer i herd that it was gonna be animated to which is somthing that i dont want… i really dont like animated movies and i think that it would destroy the book if it where to be animated and i think no way that katniss should be played be selena gomez
i hope they dont change it alot and i also dont want it to be age appropiate if it is then wheres the whole action they should make it rated r dont yall think im right
Ohmygosh i just read the book and i cant wait till the third one.
If they turned this into a movie i would sooo go see it!!!
I loved this book! But I think if they made it into a movie it would completely ruin it.
Really?Why?
OMG!!!!!!! the movie is coming out in 2011!! ugh, soooo long!!! and i can see where the whole it mite be animated thing is coming from. its so much easier and cheaper to animate the hunger games, but it will compleatly ruin EVERYTHING.
Bayttle-Royal-esk, only better.
But, seeing as Katniss is a rather calculating character, and the majority of her actions in the book are an act, (sorry if this spoils it for you), It’ll be a bit of a challange to screenwrite for so that people who haven’t read the book, get it.
Although I heard somewhere that Collins herself will be adapting it to screen, so it should kickass.
Mind you, It’ll probably kickass anyway, because it’s a cool idea.
Can’t WAIT for it.
-Winrars
This book was fantastic and I’m 32 years old. Don’t let the “young adult” label fool you, this is a book for anyone. If they make this movie right, it should be an award winner. Can’t wait!!!!
I finished the book not even two hours ago and I ran out to get the second one I extremely hope there is a movie and if there is I’ll be there at midnight to see it I just started catching fore and I’m not
sure if I will like it more because everyone says they like catching fire more and I find the hunger games hard to top
I honestly think that it would be too hard for flim makers to make this becasue of all the blood and special effects. And as soon as the movie comes out i’m taking a day off of school and going to see the first show. :D<3
I definitely think these books should be made into movies coz they are extremely visual. I think that they are just AMAZING there are not words enough to describe the Hunger Games Trilogy!
i totakky dis agree with the selena gomez thing they should get some girl nobody
nos and same with all the other cast members and even though im 11 i read it and it was amazing!!!!!!!!
i totlely agree with the point about the actress playing katnis they should use some one new.
and i heard it was going to be animated
You r completly right
WTF it’s going to be animated that would completely ruin everything!!!!! And I agree they should get someone new and I know the perfect person!! If anyone cares and wants to see a pic let me no