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Katniss is recruited into the Star Squad, a special group that includes Gale and Finnick. They are given orders to stay away from the front lines but are given suicide pills if captured. Peeta, though still not fully recovered, joins the team to appear in propaganda videos. Under Boggs' command, the squad reaches the Capitol, avoiding deadly ...
Casting for the roles of Peeta Mellark, Katniss' fellow tribute, and Gale Hawthorne, her best friend, began later that month. Top contenders for Peeta included Josh Hutcherson, Alexander Ludwig (later cast as Cato), Hunter Parrish, Evan Peters, and Lucas Till. [7] Contenders for Gale included Robbie Amell, Liam Hemsworth, David Henrie, and Drew ...
Review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes reported a 70% approval rating, based on 302 reviews, with an average score of 6.3/10. The site's consensus reads: " The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 sets up the franchise finale with a penultimate chapter loaded with solid performances and smart political subtext, though it comes up short on ...
Every summer, movie studios try to launch the next Harry Potter , Twilight , or The Hunger Games franchise by digging through best-selling young adult (YA) novels. The efforts have been hit and ...
The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes takes place more than 60 years before Katniss Everdeen enters the competition, but the movie still finds a way to give her a mention. (Spoilers ...
Katniss's first name comes from the edible arrowhead plant, [4] which was known as katniss in the language of the Lenape. [5] Her last name comes from Bathsheba Everdene, the central female character in the 1874 novel Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy. According to Collins, "The two are very different, but both struggle with knowing ...
Panem is a dystopian nation divided into twelve districts and ruled by its Capitol. As punishment for a failed rebellion seventy-four years before, each district must choose two tributes, a boy and a girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen, to fight to the death in the annual Hunger Games until only one is left alive and declared the “Victor.”
Cato was skilled with many weapons and proved this by scoring a 10 in his private session, earning many sponsors in the process. Cato played a strong part in the initial bloodbath, killing off many tributes, one being the District 4 male. He then took part in the hunt for Katniss during the Games, along with the other career tributes and Peeta.