Hey Everyone!
Here's some interesting HG news: The director of the HG movie has finally been announced. also THERE IS HG MOVIE CASTING NEWS. I know a LOT of you have been interested...
Here is the article from SpeakEasy:
It’s already one of the most heated games in Hollywood and on the
Web: speculating who will be cast in the coming film adaptation of “The
Hunger Games.” Today, the Lionsgate film studio signaled an official
start to this contest, confirming to Speakeasy that casting director
Debra Zane has been hired to flesh out the novel’s dystopian world for
the screen. In author Suzanne Collins’s best-selling trilogy of
futuristic youth fiction, the studio hopes it has the makings of a
“Twilight”-size franchise.
In summing up Zane’s strengths, the studio also laid out the
challenge the casting director faces with “Hunger Games.” That is,
casting “the people you imagined [as the characters] but not the ones
you expected,” says Alli Shearmur, president of motion picture
production for Lionsgate.
Zane is a Hollywood veteran whose resume includes “Twilight: Breaking
Dawn,” the coming two-part finale to the vampire juggernaut. Having
worked with “Hunger Games” director Gary Ross previously on films such
as “Seabiscuit” and “Pleasantville,” she was widely expected to get the
job.
For “Hunger Games,” Zane’s task is to people a post-apocalyptic
America where an authoritarian government runs a contest that’s part
reality TV, part gladiatorial death match. The twist: the contestants
picked by lottery are children. The most closely watched role is that of
16-year-old heroine Katniss Everdeen, a gray-eyed archer who volunteers
for the bloodsport to spare her sister.
The filmmakers, including Ross and producer Nina Jacobson, have said
they’re open to casting actors who are unknown (a relative term) in the
lead roles. Shearmur says, “The movie-star elements of the franchise are
the books and the characters Suzanne Collins created.” But don’t expect
Zane to conduct an “American Idol” style cattle call. Instead, she’ll
likely use professional channels to cast a wide net. The stated goal:
creating a level playing field for candidates ranging from, say, a
promising young theater actor to an emerging screen star, such as
14-year-old Hailee Steinfeld, whose “Hunger Games” stock has shot up
since she anchored the hit “True Grit.”
Shearmur emphasizes that no actors have auditioned yet, but fans and
bloggers have been speculating on the casting process for months. And
many have launched online campaigns on behalf of the actors they think
embody the characters as they imagine them. For instance, the site Reelz
Channel recently launched a poll encompassing not just the handful of
lead roles, but also a dozen other characters in the book.
“There is this fan ardor and frankly good ideas that you don’t want
to discount. We’re definitely paying attention to it,” Shearmur says.
Whoo hoo! YESSS! Come on people, dance, rejoice! The HG Movie production is FINALLY underway! AND their open to UNKNOWN TALENT!!! :D
I'm so glad to see the HG Movie taking off! Aren't you? Let me know in the comments below. Keep your emails coming, I love hearing from all of you!
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May the odds EVER be in your favor!
-R!
