The World Is Watching: Making the Hunger Games (2012)

Plot Summary

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.

Full Cast & Characters

Suzanne Collins

Self - Author

Jennifer Lawrence

Self - Katniss Everdeen

Josh Hutcherson

Self - Peeta Mellark

Liam Hemsworth

Self - Gale Hawthorne

Donald Sutherland

Self - President Coriolanus Snow

Elizabeth Banks

Self - Effie Trinket

Lenny Kravitz

Self - Cinna

Woody Harrelson

Self - Haymitch Abernathy

Stanley Tucci

Self - Caesar Flickerman

Wes Bentley

Self - Seneca Crane

Willow Shields

Self - Primrose Everdeen

Paula Malcomson

Self - Katniss' Mother

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