Director Francis Laurence & Producer Nina Jacobson On “Grittier” New ‘Hunger Games’ – CinemaCon
deadline.comThe latest Hunger Games, set decades before the original, is grittier and “more authentic” in some ways but doesn’t waver from existential questions, as relevant now as they were when the first films came out, said the director and producer of Ballads of Songbirds And Snakes. “Are we worthy of freedom?
Are we unable to handle freedom? What is the allure of authoritarianism? Why are people drawn to surrendering control to the government?
And what makes a person want to have that kind of control?” asked producer Nina Jacobson at a Q&A along with director Francis Laurence on sidelines of CinemaCon in Las Vegas.
Lionsgate debuted the first trailer at its presentation today. The films are based on the novels by Suzanne Collins. “The first books were really like during the Forever Wars, you know, the endless struggles in Iraq and Afghanistan and the consequences of those wars. [And] the ascendance of American Idol and reality television,” she said.
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