The Hunger Games Trailer HD 2012

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Sneak peek: Jennifer Lawrence snaps into action as new full-length Hunger Games trailer offers fans a glimpse at troubled futuristic world


The books have won legions of fans around the world, and the forthcoming film adaptation is already being dubbed 'the new Twilight.'

Now, a brand new full length trailer for The Hunger Games promises high octane action, memorable characters and a fight to the death in the dystopian world of the best-selling Suzanne Collins novel.

Jennifer Lawrence, 20, stars as heroine Katniss Everdeen, an ordinary girl from Panem - a post-apocalyptic world set more than 700 years in the future.

Katniss lives with her mother and sister in District 12, one of the poorest districts which surround the controlling central Capitol.

As punishment for a previous rebellion against the Capitol, every year, one boy and one girl between the ages of 12 and 18 from each district are selected by lottery and forced to participate in the Hunger Games.

The Games is a televised event in which the participants, or tributes as they are known, must fight to the death in a dangerous, outdoor arena, controlled by the Capitol, until only one remains.

The new trailer brings the books to life by initially showing the grim reality of life for Katniss in District 12.

The trailer begins with Katniss showing off her impressive archery skills while hunting with her friend Gale (Liam Hemsworth).

The duo then join the rest of the district's children to attend the selection for the Hunger Games, with a overly made-up Elizabeth Banks playing Capitol employee Effie Trinket.


It is there that fans get their first glimpse of Lenny Kravitz, who plays Katniss's sympathetic stylist Cinna.

After a quick beautification session, she is interviewed before the Games by blue-haired TV personality Caesar Flickerman, played by Stanley Tucci.

The trailer also gives a quick glimpse of Woody Harrelson, who sports a shaggy wig and designer stubble as Katnis and Peta's mentor Haymitch Abernathy.



The trailer also shows the tributes assembling for their active training, and Katniss being escorted to the Games arena before being transported via a glass tube for the beginning of the contest.

Tantalisingly, the trailer then ends before the main action can begin, leaving fans having to wait until March 23 next year to catch the movie when it is released in cinemas.

The Hunger games is the first in a trilogy of books by Collins along with Catching Fire and Mockingjay.

Lawrence, who dyed her blonde hair brown to play the character of Katniss, is prepared for her public profile to increase following the film's release.

'I knew that as soon as I said "yes," my life would change,' she told Entertainment Weekly magazine last year.

'And I walked around thinking "It's not too late, I could still go back and do indies. I haven't said "yes" yet, it's not too late.'

But she added: 'I love this story and if I had said no, I would regret it every day.'

 

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Lionsgate doesn't want to make "The Hunger Games" fans wait overly long while they adapt the best-selling novels for the big screen. It's the reason they carved out a release date -- November 22, 2013 -- for the second installment of the series, "Catching Fire," well before the first glimpse of footage ever saw the light of day. Thanks to the positive response to the recently-released theatrical trailer, it looks like Lionsgate is continuing to fast-track the project to be ready for its release in two years.

Director Gary Ross co-wrote "The Hunger Games" script with "State of Play" scribe Billy Ray. According to Deadline his intention was to write the outline of the "Catching Fire" script now and then stick close to the source material and co-write the actual screenplay with the novels' writer, Suzanne Collins. But Ross is apparently knee-deep in post-production right now and doesn't have the time to pen the script that he had planned on. So now Lionsgate is courting "Slumdog Millionaire" writer Simon Beaufoy to write the script instead.

There's no word on whether or not Ross will attempt to help Beaufoy write the script, or if he'll recommend that Beaufoy and Collins write it together. Either way, Ross has had a big hand in this production from the start and will likely at least take several passes at the screenplay to shape it to his liking. "Catching Fire" will be a tricky film to adapt because it has two very different acts with extremely different tones.

There's also no guarantee that the end of the "Catching Fire" film will correlate with the end of the novel. Lionsgate has planned on making four films out of the three novels, and there isn't exactly enough source material to divide the third book, "Mockingjay," into two films.

Deadline also reports that Ross definitely plans on coming back to direct "Catching Fire." Hopefully that means he's on board for the whole series, which will be good for the films' tonality. Other franchises like "Harry Potter" and "The Twilight Saga" have jumped around between directors, and it could be argued that they suffered for it. At least those series had novels with different tones, while "The Hunger Games" is pretty dark and bleak the entire way through.

"The Hunger Games" tells the story of Katniss Everdeen, a 16-year-old girl from the poor District 12 section of the futuristic country Panem who volunteers herself into the annual Hunger Games to take the place of her sister. In the Hunger Games, she must fight to the death against 23 of her peers on national television to win fame and fortune to her District. But Katniss only thinks about her survival and returning to her family, and that's what gives her the edge. "The Hunger Games" hits theaters on March 23, 2012.

 

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It's the pink hair that did it.

For Elizabeth Banks, playing Effie Trinket in the upcoming screen version of The Hunger Games first clicked into place thanks to the character's signature cotton-candy coif.

"I would be in the hair and makeup trailer and I was Elizabeth, and then the wig went on and very suddenly I was Effie," says Banks, 37. "Every day I would have that aha moment, like, 'We did it! We found Effie!' "

In the best-selling The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins, Effie serves as a publicity agent of sorts for the Games, a cruel arena battle that pits youths, called "tributes," against each other in a televised fight to the death. The movie opens March 23.

"Effie is a very complicated woman," says Banks, who previously worked with director Gary Ross on 2003's Seabiscuit. "She's a spinner. She spins everything into something positive. These kids have been pulled from their loved ones to compete on television in this horrible event in which they will likely lose their lives."

Effie, she says, is "charged with making their last days before they're in the Games as positive as possible, so that they go into the Games with a great attitude. And, of course, that seems crazy."

At the center of the action is the heroine Katniss Everdeen (played by Jennifer Lawrence), whose skills with a bow and arrow aid her survival.

"Katniss is so strong, so courageous, and when faced with this overly positive, super-enthusiastic Effie, [Jennifer] and I definitely had some great moments of conflict," says Banks – who admits to one major drawback in playing the outrageously dressed character.

"For sure the biggest challenge of playing Effie was the shoes!" says Banks. "All of my shoes in the movie are completely amazing but highly uncomfortable. I said to Gary, 'You better be shooting these shoes, because they're killing me.' "

 

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The Lionsgate trailer, which premieres on Monday, was quickly compared and contrasted with the beloved book trilogy by Suzanne Collins.

The first full-length trailer for The Hunger Games premiered on Good Morning America yesterday. Once the video hit the internet, fans of the Suzanne Collins novels rushed to view the first real look at the highly anticipated Lionsgate film, starring Jennifer Lawrence.


Overall, movie buffs had favorable reactions to the first trailer, which shows Katniss (Lawrence) volunteering for the deadly Hunger Games in order to save her younger sister. Viewers got to watch Katniss prepare for the games, and the final moments of the trailer show the 24 Tributes entering the arena.



Viewers had plenty to say about the first trailer. Fans of the book trilogy spoke out about the casting choices in the Gary Ross-helmed film, and also discussed how closely the picture mirrors the books.

“Has everyone seen the Hunger Games trailer? I have. Thrice. I plan on preordering my midnight showing tkt and dressing in full Gale costume,” wrote actress and model Brooklyn Decker.

Amy Louise Urwin: “Just watched the Hunger Games trailer for the second time today. Gives me chills everytime."



Hannah R: ”I've watched the Hunger Games trailer at least 10 times. Things that reduce me to nothing every single time: ‘I volunteer as Tribute.’"

Jennifer Stevenson: “Can't stop watching The Hunger Games trailer. I'm just a few views away from making a shrieking & crying youtube reaction video.”

alex zander: “holy crap the new hunger games trailer is AWESOME. seems so much like the real book.”



Ang: “Anyone seen The Running Man? Did the trailer for The Hunger Games remind you of that concept at all? Just me?”

Sean C. Luther: “little surprised at how good the Hunger Games trailer looks. Did not enjoy the books as much as I thought, but the movie looks captivating”

Jazzy Jess: “After watching the new trailer for the Hunger Games film..my fear that Peeta was miscast is confirmed.”

STORY: 'Hunger Games' Trailer: What the Movie Buffs Are Saying

C.J. Darlington: "Who saw the new Hunger Games trailer? What did you think? I was amazed. Seemed so close to the book. Epic."

Ally: "Just watched The Hunger Games trailer. I can't even. It's amazing. Everything I pictured in the book is correctly shown in the movie"

Shannon May Jusman: "The new 'hunger games' trailer portrays the book even better."

Ann Howard: "Hunger Games trailer = book coming alive before my eyes. Absolutely phenomenal. Cannot wait for 3.23.12!"

 

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The 'intense' Hunger Games trailer: 5 talking points
The book became a phenomenon and now drooling critics are dissecting the first full-length preview of the ultra-buzzy film adaptation


The first full-length trailer for "The Hunger Games" renews debate about whether Jennifer Lawrence is simply too old to play 16-year-old heroine Katniss Everdeen.

The first full-length trailer for "The Hunger Games" renews debate about whether Jennifer Lawrence is simply too old to play 16-year-old heroine Katniss Everdeen. Photo: trailers.apple.com

Best Opinion: New York, Entertainment Weekly, NPR...

"May the odds be ever in your favor." A glimpse of that haunting line from The Hunger Games — Suzanne Collins' wildly popular trilogy about a dystopian future in which a brutal government forces children to murder each other on a manipulative reality TV show — concludes the new trailer for the upcoming film adaptation of the first book. (Watch it below.) The trailer, which debuted Monday morning on Good Morning America, gives fans a coveted two-and-a-half minute look at the keenly awaited movie, which is due next spring. From Jennifer Lawrence's performance as gritty heroine Katniss Everdeen to the trailer's failure to convey the story's true violence, here are five things critics are buzzing about:

1. This is a powerful trailer
This trailer is "intense," says Amanda Dobbins at New York. It induces chills when police drag a screaming Katniss away or she's launched into the arena where she'll battle other children. Really, "this looks genuinely awesome." Even those determined to hate the film adaptation must have "felt their pulse quicken in that final countdown" before the Hunger Games competition starts, says Karen Valby at Entertainment Weekly. "I can't think of a more brilliant way to end the trailer."

2. Jennifer Lawrence is still a divisive casting choice
What we see of Lawrence here, says Valby, should silence critics "who still wring their hands" over her casting as Katniss. Just consider her haunting cry of "I volunteer! I volunteer!" when Katniss' younger sister is selected to fight in the Games and Katniss steps in to take her place. Look, Lawrence is a "marvelous actress," says Linda Holmes at NPR, but she just looks too old to play a 16-year-old. A story about young teenagers becomes one about young adults, "which I think lessens the brutality."

3. The boys look too old
It's not just Lawrence who looks insufficiently childlike, says Christopher John Farley at The Wall Street Journal. Liam Hemsworth as Katniss' friend Gale and Josh Hutcherson as her ally (and rival) Peeta "seem a bit too mature and studly for their roles." Watching "kids" forced to battle to the death loses its impact when the actors playing them "look like superheroes." I disagree about Hutcherson, says Holmes. He "has exactly the quality of seeming far too young for battle that I don't see in Lawrence."

4. Elizabeth Banks makes a winning Effie Trinkett
Hearing the "off-kilter trill" of Elizabeth Banks as Effie Trinkett, the over-bubbly escort who guides Katniss and Peeta through the games, "made me giddy with anticipation," says Valby. The film has nailed Trinkett's look, too: The actress is unrecognizable in her garish makeup. Indeed, says Dobbins. Banks looks appropriately "nutso in a hot pink new-Renaissance getup."

5. The violence is strangely absent
As impressive as the trailer is, "there's still no hint of the violence and brutality of the books," says Matt Goldberg at Collider, perhaps to appeal to a more family-friendly crowd. But the decision to avoid any footage from the actual Hunger Games? How baffling. "That's the meat and potatoes" of the film, and this first preview could have benefitted from "some quick flashes of the action scenes."

 

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What's the verdict: 'Hunger Games' trailer

The trailer for "The Hunger Games" debuted on "Good Morning America" Monday, and the survey says impressed (also: Can.not.wait until March 23).

After debating about the casting - Jennifer Lawrence as 16-year-old heroine Katniss Everdeen, Josh Hutcherson as her competitor/love interest Peeta and Liam Hemsworth as her other childhood friend/other love interest Gale – and checking out a teaser trailer, we finally get to really see the casting in action.

If you haven't yet read Suzanne Collins' post-apocalyptic trilogy, this will help, and here's a brief summary: Katniss volunteers for the brutal, government-sponsored televised game that has kids 12 to 18 fight to the death in order to save her sister from having to "play," so to speak.

Entertainment Weekly doesn't care if you're into YA lit or not, believing that "even the most determined haters felt their pulse quicken in that final countdown, before 24 children of Panem are sent off to fight to the death in front of television cameras."

The L.A. Times points out that if fans were worried about how the dystopian world Collins' created would be manifested on film, they shouldn't be, as the trailer is appropriately stark.

i09 finds Lenny Kravitz to be "a great Cinna," with a heavily made-up Elizabeth Banks looking "pretty spot on as Effie Trinket."

The Washington Post found the trailer to be "a pretty terrific clip, one that hews faithfully to the book and bodes well for the March release."

On Twitter, Bravo's Andy Cohen got goosebumps, and Time's film critic Mary Pols weighs in that it looks like director Gary Ross "is right in tune with Suzanne Collins."

Even those who've never read the books can get into it: Says JD Harmeyer, "I know nothing about "The Hunger Games"....but from this first trailer, it looks pretty awesome."

 

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The Hunger Games: A taste of the trailer

Can this dystopian drama starring Jennifer Lawrence whet the appetites of Twilight fans and sci-fi boffins alike?


The Hunger Games has been billed as the new Twilight, a horrific prospect to those already looking forward to the end of the tween-favourite saga. And yet the first full trailer for this Gary Ross-directed movie hints at something a lot less irritating.



Chief among the reasons to be cheerful is Jennifer Lawrence in the lead. The X Men: First Class actor plays a young woman called Katniss who volunteers to enter the titular games, an annual event in which a boy and girl from each district of the dystopian nation of Panem (formerly the USA) are sent to battle to the death. Lawrence's character is from Appalachian District 12 and chooses to enter when her younger sister's name is pulled out of a lottery. So far, this could almost be a weird sci-fi sequel to her breakthrough film, Winter's Bone, in which Lawrence played a young woman struggling to look after her younger siblings in the similarly remote and mountainous Ozarks region.

Suzanne Collins, who wrote the bestselling book on which The Hunger Games is based, explains she came up with the idea while channel surfing. One minute she was watching a reality show, and the next she flicked to footage of the Iraq war: something clicked and the seed of an original idea began to form. Let's not mention Battle Royale or Running Man.

There's a line in the trailer suggesting the games are a metaphor for teenage angst, with authority figures representing evil parents who won't let their kids – sob – be themselves. "I just keep wishing I could think of a way to show them that they don't own me. If I'm gonna die, I wanna still be me," a fellow competitor tells Lawrence. One can almost imagine My Chemical Romance in the background, but at least there's no hint of Twilight's tendency to present female characters as lovelorn losers who sit around moping while the boys sort out all the important stuff. Katniss looks like she's got a little bit of grit to her. For those of us who long since left our teenage years behind, that might be the factor that makes The Hunger Games worth a look.

 

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LET THE HUNGER GAMES BEGIN!
Suzanne Collins’ gripping young-adult trilogy is a crossover smash—and Hollywood is about to
launch the first movie. An exclusive interview with director Gary Ross.
It was director Gary Ross’ 15-year-old twins who turned him on to The Hunger Games, the first
installment of Suzanne Collins’ terrifically urgent futuristic trilogy. “I started reading it at 9 o’clock one
night and finished reading it at 2 in the morning,” says Ross (Pleasantville, Seabiscuit). Like the rest
of the bestselling young-adult series’ ardent fans, he fell hard for heroine Katniss Everdeen, a 16-year-old
girl who must survive the whims of a cruel government that sends children to fight to the death on reality
TV. Ross and Lionsgate aim to start production on the first film in the late spring. Collins, who wrote the
early drafts of the script, is resting easy about the choice of director. “I feel confident that Katniss is in
excellent hands,” she told EW. “His previous work illustrates his passion and talent for good
storytelling, and I look forward to seeing his vision for The Hunger Games come to life.” In this
exclusive interview— which contains a few spoilers, so don’t say we didn’t warn you—Ross describes just
what that vision entails.
EW: What do you think makes you the right director for the gig?
Gary Ross: I just loved the story so much. There is a defiant, antiauthoritarian quality to it. I guess if you
look at some of my stuff, Pleasantville probably in particular, there’s a streak that runs through all that.
And I’m so touched by the humanity of Katniss. As much as the firestorm or the final action sequences
are incredibly riveting and enormous, it’s the relationships in the book that are the most moving to me.
EW: Are you already hearing from kids who are afraid you’re going to screw up their favorite book?
Ross: [Laughs] I just received 150 letters from the Frenship Middle School near Lubbock, Texas. The
reading-program teacher got them to all write me letters. So many of them wrote, “Listen, I know this is an
action movie and I can’t wait to see the action but please don’t lose the heart of the story.” The death of
Rue is mentioned by every kid who reads the book. It’s funny because I realize the letters are from
Lubbock, Texas, which is where Buddy Holly was from. So in a way it’s the birthplace of American
teenage rebellion. Isn’t that cool?
EW: Did they give you useful advice?
Ross: A lot of them talked about “Don’t mess with the colors.” I think they didn’t want me to pump it full of
contrast or desaturate the movie or make it gratuitously edgy in a visual way. I think kids are hipper to
clichés than we are sometimes.
EW: Those Lubbock kids, to say nothing of your own son and daughter, must have strong ideas about
casting.
Ross: Can I just take this opportunity to tell you who I’m going to cast or…
EW: You may!
Ross: No, I’m just kidding. I’m just at the beginning of the process right now. I’ve talked to Suzanne so
extensively and I feel like I understand the character really, really well. I’ve read in the press that there are
front-runners, but that’s not the case.
EW: Do you want to cast an unknown?
Ross: I honestly don’t know. We’ll cast the right person for the part. Lionsgate has been great in that they
don’t feel that this needs a movie star in Katniss’ role. The greatest thing about the franchise and the
books being the star is that we can cast whoever we want.
EW: Your budget is reportedly $60 million. Are you going to have enough for the otherworldly scope of
this project? [Lionsgate denies the figure, saying the budget has yet to be locked in.]
Ross: I’m not allowed to confirm the budget number, but I will say it’s enough money to make the movie
well and not disappoint a single fan. It’s a lot less money than a lot of other franchises or tentpoles of the
same stature. But I don’t mind budget constraints. Sometimes they can produce creative solutions that
are often better than what you would’ve had if you hadn’t had to think it through so rigorously.
EW: How much CGI will be involved? I imagine you’ll need some for the Muttations, the book’s genetically
altered creatures?
Ross: It’s funny because the Lubbock kids—back to Lubbock, I’m dying to go to this school!—also
expressed how important it was for me to adequately render the Muttations. And yes, we will.
Obviously they’re one of the larger technical challenges, but they will be animated CG characters.
EW: What scene do you most look forward to shooting?
Ross: I can’t wait to shoot the firestorm from a filmmaking perspective. I can’t wait to do the relationship
with Rue— both developing the relationship between Katniss and Rue and also the poignancy of Rue’s
funeral. How Katniss decorates her body with flowers? I mean, it’s just so beautiful.
EW: Some fans think the book’s violence demands an R rating.
Ross: It’s not going to be an R-rated movie because I want the 12- and 13- and 14-year-old fans to be
able to go see it. This book means too much to too many teenagers for it not to be PG-13. It’s their story
and they deserve to be able to access it completely. And I don’t think it needs to be more extreme than
that.
EW: Do you find the violence in the book extreme?
Ross: No, I don’t. I wouldn’t rate the book R. I think Suzanne has a lot of restraint. It isn’t that she has
written an overly graphic book. Even in things like the Tracker Jacker sequence, while horrific, it’s the
ideas that Suzanne has created that are so terrifying.
EW: Do you think the demand for an R rating partly comes from grown-ups trying to justify falling for
something marketed to young adults?
Ross: Maybe that’s true. And yet some of the greatest literature is YA. If you look at the S.E. Hinton stuff
that Coppola did [The Outsiders and Rumble Fish, both in 1983]—that’s just so classically wonderful. In
between [my screenplays for] Dave and Pleasantville, I was the Los Angeles library commissioner, and
we greatly expanded teen services in that time. And that’s when I first fell in love with YA literature. It’s as
urgent as being a teenager is. And Suzanne has created something that’s just so unbelievably universal
that it doesn’t really know an age.

 

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Spoiler alert ! explanation of the trailer of hunger games



The damn trailer tease us by cutting off just after the game start, you want to know more about hunger games? Watch this video.

 

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