Once the Mockingjay movies are done, there may yet be more The Hunger Games movies...
It's often forgotten that Lionsgate pretty much bet the house on making the first The Hunger Games film. It reportedly scraped the budget together in part by trimming back a whole bunch of films it had in production at the time, and was eventually rewarded with one of the bigger movie series on the planet right now. At the time of writing, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 has nearly $300m in the bank worldwide after just under a week.
Director Francis Lawrence, who has made the last two The Hunger Games films, now has the job of getting The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 ready for this time next year. But even though that's the point where Suzanne Collins' books come to an end, it doesn't mean the movies will.
Chatting to MTV, director Francis Lawrence admitted that "everybody is thinking about [expanding the franchise] and talking about it." Noting that such an expansion would need to be approached with care, he added that "to just say 'oh, we're still in the Hunger Games world' is really risky."
And yet it might just happen. "You need to make sure that you have something new to say," cautioned Lawrence. "New characters need to be created that are just as compelling as Katniss." Certainly without Jennifer Lawrence, there would be a significant part of The Hunger Games' success that would be missing.
"I'm definitely open to talking about it," Lawrence said, "and I think everybody's thinking about it."
Our guess? Once the finale of Mockingjayhas screened next year, it won't be the last we see ofThe Hunger Games films...
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