The World Is Watching: Making the Hunger Games

8.2 / 10

(5 votes)

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.

Country:

United States of America

Genre:

Documentary

Duration:

122 minutes

Year:

2012

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Company:

Off the Cliff Productions

Cast:
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)

Crew:
Cliff Stephenson

Writer

Cliff Stephenson

Producer

David C.P. Chan

Director of Photography

Jimmie Rhee

Additional Photography

Cliff Stephenson

Editor