

The World Is Watching: Making the Hunger Games
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.
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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

Elizabeth Banks
Self - Effie Trinket

Lenny Kravitz
Self - Cinna

Woody Harrelson
Self - Haymitch Abernathy

Stanley Tucci
Self - Caesar Flickerman

Wes Bentley
Self - Seneca Crane

Willow Shields
Self - Primrose Everdeen

Paula Malcomson
Self - Katniss' Mother
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