The Hunger Games
There have been so young adult movies based on popular literature in recent years that some audiences might think the so-called “YA” genre is new. Ha! Hollywood history is actually littered with classy (and sometimes crass) adaptation of novels that were either intended for young readers, or gradually became accepted into the “Young Adult” genre as it became codified and popularized in the 1950s. Many of these young adult movies are great, but most can’t hold a candle to the classic young adult movies that have already found a permanent place in the pop culture consciousness.
With the latest of these young adult movies, Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials, hitting theaters on September 18,
we thought now would be a great time to look back on the best films in the genre… many are very recent,
but some are outright timeless.
Initial release: November 19, 2014 (Switzerland)
Director: Francis Lawrence
Featured song: The Hanging Tree
Film series: The Hunger Games
Initial DVD release: March 6, 2015 (USA)
The last movie of the "The Hunger Games" franchise
is to be released this fall and is considered to be one of the most anticipated films of the last quarter of the year."The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2" will be shown in theaters on Nov. 20 this year.
It is the last movie based on the book trilogy penned by Suzanne Collins. According to a survey conducted by Fandango, Variety reports that the finale movie garnered the top spot of being the most anticipated fall movie with 36 percent votes.
This is followed by "Spectre," a James Bond film starring Daniel Craig and "The Martian" starring Matt Damon.
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The Inquisitr reports that the "The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2" is receving the same level of anticipation as
the final "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2" in 2011. The last Potter film raked in $1.3 billion dollars
but according to Venture Capital Post, "Mockingjay Part 2" will be earning at
least $3 billion dollars as the total earnings for the entire four-part movie franchise.
The reason why the last Mockingjay film is anticipated, Movie News Guide states, is because it will show the final scenes
of Philipp Seymour Hoffman as Plutarch Heavensbee before he died in 2014.
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The Mockingjay finale also involves a star-studded cast. In addition to Lawrence and Sutherland,
we will see Josh Hutcherson as Peeta Mellark, Liam Hemsworth as Gale Hawthorne, Elizabeth Banks as Effie Trinket, Woody Harrelson as Haymitch Abernathy, Julianne Moore as District 13's President Alma Coin and Stanley Tucci as Caesar Flickerman, among many others in the epic conclusion.
Director Francis Lawrence said that the final "Hunger Games" movie will be action-packed
and will be full of violence and destruction. Majority of the films will also be filmed inside the Capitol.
"This is the most amount of time we've spent in the Capitol. So we had to focus a lot on
how to accomplish that, especially when we spend most of our time out on the street," said director
Lawrence via Ecumenical News.Production designer Philip Messina also said that the Capitol will be Soviet-era inspired as it will be mostly ravaged by the war with its rebels and revolutionaries.
Witness the final confrontation of Katniss and President Snow in the finale, "Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2" on Nov. 20, 2016.
