Catching Fire (2013)

[emjane18]

Catching Fire' the next movie in 'The Hunger Games' Trilogy: What are people saying?
With the great success of ‘The Hunger Games’ last weekend, audiences are teetering on the edge of their seats while they wait for the next installment in the series, ‘Catching Fire.’ People can’t stop talking about the new movie and what to expect.
One of the big appeals of the second book’s adaptation to film for fans will be the casting of the character Finnick Odair, who plays the book’s heartthrob. There are so many actors out there who could play this role and fans can’t wait to see who they pick. Darren Franich at Entertainment Weekly said, “Finnick is incredibly handsome. Really, he’s practically a joke of physical perfection.” Who could play that role?
Another thing to look forward to in ‘Catching Fire’ will be the new arena. After all this is ‘The Hunger Games’ so you can expect there to be some fighting. “It will be so much more brutal then the first one. It is just diabolical,” said Breanne Heldman from NextMovie in an interview for MTV News.
The set of the new film will be completely different and it is still undetermined where it will be shot. ‘Catching Fire’ is based in a tropical setting so we can expect some big changes. The film will come out so soon after the first one the actors will hardly get a chance to rest before jumping back on set.
Jennifer Lawrence, who plays the main character Katniss Everdeen told MTV News, "The training was never, like, tough. It was intense, but it was fun. So I'm looking forward to the next bout of training. For the second one, I will have a beard." We can expect a lot of changes visually in the second film. Even with all of these changes Lawrence is excited to start working on the next film.
There is still some speculation as to whether or not Gary Ross will be directing the next film. It looks good so far but, it isn’t set in stone. He did talk on MTV’s Rough Cut about the possibility and states that he would never do 3D for 'The Hunger Games' films because he thinks that "if we shoot the movie in 3D we become the Capitol."
Will Kristen Bell be able to snag a role in one of the films? She came out on Jimmy Kimmel Live a while back as this super fan of the books and since then has been pushing for a role, specifically as ‘Johanna Mason,’ ever since.
Mark the date because ‘Catching Fire’ will come out Nov 22, 2013. Until then re-read those books or read them if you haven't already and get excited for the next film.

[emjane18]

Who would you like to see play Johanna in "Catching Fire"?


by Darren Franich
Tags: Casting couch, Catching Fire, The Hunger Games, Movies
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Now that we’re finished waiting for The Hunger Games to arrive in theaters, we can begin the important work: waiting for Catching Fire to arrive in theaters. The sequel is slated for a Thanksgiving 2013 release — although there remains the outside possibility that Lionsgate will split the book into two movies for artistic reasons, and let’s theoretically call those movies Catching Fire Part 1: Love Takes a Victory Tour and Catching Fire Part 2: Back 2 the Arena. You can bet that casting updates for the sequel aren’t too far away, since the book introduces a few fan-fave characters. Yesterday, we asked you who should play tortured golden boy Finnick, and you responded with a resounding cry of “Ryan Kwanten!” along with a slightly-less-resounding-but-nevertheless-impressive-for-his-weight-class cry of “Grant Gustin!” Today, though, we’re going to ask the really tricky question: Who should play Johanna Mason, the cunning, nihilistic victor from District 7? (Warning: A few SPOILERS from Catching Fire follow.)
Johanna is a tricky character to pin down. She won her own Hunger Games using a bit of guile — “by very convincingly portraying herself as weak and helpless so that she would be ignored.” But Johanna isn’t just a stealth assassin. She’s also an axe-murdering warrior from Lumberjackland, possessed of what Suzanne Collins describes as “a wicked ability to murder.” Subterfuge or not, there are elements of free-spiritedness to Johanna: The first time Katniss and Peeta meet her, Johanna strips down to nothing but her green slippers. (That might just be how you say hello in District 7. District 7 is so weird, you guys.) Collins doesn’t offer much in the way of physical description of Johanna. She’s got spiky hair and wide-set brown eyes. She’s roughly in her early 20s, and since she’s supposed to be a bit older than Katniss, let’s say that the actress playing Johanna can be anywhere from 1 to 10 years older than Jennifer Lawrence, giving us a rough age range of 22 to 32.
When I read the books, I was visualizing a Michelle Rodriguez-ish character — think Rodriguez circa S.W.A.T. – which unfortunately describes absolutely no other actress, since the finest engineers in Hollywood have struggled for over a decade to invent anyone else who can play the Michelle Rodriguez character. (Rodriguez is probably a bit old for the part. Additionally, if she’s cast, she may accidentally tear off Josh Hutcherson’s head.) Kristen Bell has reportedly campaigned for the role, an idea which would have seemed much cooler before her curve-ball career turn into rom-coms. Still, Bell’s not a bad choice — there’s something of Johanna Mason in Uda Bengt, the half-fascist captain of the Valhalla Catering team that Bell played on Party Down. Likewise, Naya Rivera has been playing a very Johanna-like character on Glee. (It’s not hard to imagine Santana wielding an axe.)
While we’re talking cheap up-and-coming TV actresses who wouldn’t mind taking a showy supporting role in a big franchise, Emilia Clarke‘s dragon queen on Game of Thrones has the wide-set eyes, the ability to balance internal struggle with external badassery, and a pro-nudity policy. Margarita Levieva had a recurring role on Revenge as a bananagrams-crazy homicidal maniac. Nikita star Lyndsy Fonseca came up frequently in initial conversations about casting Katniss, but Fonseca was always a little too old (and maybe too glam) to play the girl from District 12 — it’s worth throwing her into the mix, if only because mentioning Lyndsy Fonseca in a post about The Hunger Games makes me feel like it’s 2010 all over again. And speaking of 2010, that’s the year that Friday Night Lights star Jurnee Smollett became Jurnee Smollett-Bell, and besides a supporting role in the gone and forgotten The Defenders, she’s been mostly absent from the screen. Maybe that should change.
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Then again, maybe focusing on TV actresses is too limiting. After all, Johanna is one of the showiest roles, and she’s a presence in both Catching Fire and Mockingjay — which means the actress playing Johanna will be in two or three or four or even five of the biggest movies of the next few years. (No doubt in 2016, we’ll all be saying, “Man, Mockingjay Part 3 is so depressing, it makes Mockingjay Part 2 look like Mockingjay Part 1!”) So maybe the better comparison here is to a role like Black Widow in Iron Man 2 — so we should be looking at an established movie actress who could use some franchise credentials. Mary Elizabeth Winstead has done a few action movies, although she doesn’t quite have the Johanna thousand-yard stare. That’s not a problem for Rooney Mara, whose Lisbeth Salander in The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo would fit right into the post-apocalypse of The Hunger Games. As a left-field choice, I’d like to throw in Gemma Arterton, who managed to seem evil in two movies where she was nominally playing the heroine love interest (Clash of the Titans and Prince of Persia. Wow, 2010 again!)
Still, my personal choice might seem even a bit more left field, at least in the sense that it’s as far away from Michelle Rodriguez as humanly possible. What about Mia Wasikowska? The young Australian actress has mostly avoided big Hollywood productions ever since Tim Burton forced her to make faces at green screens in the absurdly popular Alice in Wonderland, and she’s never once done a movie that seems to indicate she could handle carrying an axe. But Wasikowska has a peculiar quality that strikes me as perfect for Johanna — she can seem simultaneously tortured, headstrong, and self-loathing. (Just go back and watch her incredible performance in season 1 of In Treatment.) True, Wasikowska also has a slightly demure Paltrowvian quality, but that could just play into the double nature of Johanna: She looks unthreatening right up until she buries an axe in your stomach.
But don’t take my word for it! Readers, who’s your Johanna? Vote in the poll below, and be sure to tell us the actress who we didn’t mention who is clearly perfect for the role in the comment boards.



Who should play Johanna in 'Catching Fire'?
Kristen Bell
Naya Rivera
Emilia Clarke
Margarita Levieva
Lyndsy Fonseca
Jurnee Smollett-Bell
Gemma Arterton
Rooney Mara
Mary Elizabeth Winstead
Mia Wasikowska
or Somebody else!
http://popwatch.ew.com/2012/03/27/jo...-fire-actress/

[emjane18]

Who should play Finnick in 'Catching Fire'?
by Darren Franich
Tags: Casting couch, Catching Fire, The Hunger Games, Movies
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The film adaptation of The Hunger Games is currently redefining our simple human notions of success. It earned more in a single weekend than any movie not starring Harry Potter or Batman. It attracted audiences from every demographic, and based on exit polls, those audiences liked what they saw. At this point, the only question is whether there will be two sequels or three sequels. (And if they do have four films, which book do they split up? The first half of Catching Fire is basically a Panem travelogue. Mockingjay is so magnificently depressing that the notion of turning the book into two movies borders on cultural masochism.) But the most exciting aspect of Games‘ success, for me, is that some of the intriguing characters Suzanne Collins introduces in the latter books will now be brought to life on screen. Which brings me to today’s big question: Who do you think should play Finnick Odair, the glamorous trident-carrying Hunger Games victor?
Finnick is incredibly handsome. Really, he’s practically a joke of physical perfection — in Catching Fire, Collins describes him as a muscular, tan, bronze-haired dude with sea green eyes. So he’s either a merman or an Australian. But unlike Australians, Finnick’s beauty masks a bleak inner life: After winning his Hunger Games, he makes a life for himself as a high-class prostitute in the Capitol. It’s a tricky doucheboat-with-a-heart-of-gold role, requiring an actor who can be threatening, but also melancholy, but who can also pull off Finnick’s Caligula-worthy “Golden Net” outfit, which seems destined to test Catching Fire‘s PG-13 rating more than any kid-killing montage.
In Catching Fire, Finnick is about 24. But since the teenage Katniss and Peeta are played by Jennifer Lawrence (21) and Josh Hutcherson (19), it seems likely that Lionsgate would be willing to stretch the age range into the late ’20s or early ’30s. It seems to me that there’s one actor in Hollywood that’d be perfect for the role…but unfortunately, Chris Hemsworth happens to be the older brother of Liam, and it’s a well-known fact that the space-time continuum will implode if two Hemsworths appear in the same movie together. Ryan Gosling would be good, but it’s hard to see him taking a supporting role in a franchise picture. That’s also true of Channing Tatum — unfortunate, since Tatum has lately been refining a Finnick-esque mixture of handsome-man bravado and sly humor.
More likely, the makers of Catching Fire will go for lesser-known (and cheaper) potential Finnicks. Twilight costar Kellan Lutz and I Am Number Four escapee Alex Pettyfer both have the ripped underwear-model look down, although its unclear if either actor has the gravitas to pull off Finnick’s darker edges. If they wanted to play Finnick as a slightly older character, Luke Evans seems like he could play both Finnick’s caddish and sensitive sides. With a featured role in the upcoming Hobbit duology, a big role in the Hunger Games sequels could turn Evans into a megastar. EW’s Tanner Stransky suggested throwing Grant Gustin from Glee into the mix.
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All good choices, but if you ask me, the best pick for Finnick is another TV actor — Ryan Kwanten, Jason Stackhouse on True Blood. He’s a bit older than book-Finnick, but he can do the rakish-soulful thing pretty well. Anyhow, everyone in Hollywood is older than we think, so don’t hold that against him. Stop being so ageist towards old people, weirdo!
Readers, who’s your pick for Finnick? Vote in the poll below, and be sure to tell us the totally obvious choice that we completely forgot about in the comments.
Who would you like to see play Finnick in "Catching Fire"?
Ryan Kwanten
Ryan Gosling
Channing Tatum
Alex Pettyfer
Kellan Lutz
Luke Evans
Grant Gustin
Somebody else
http://popwatch.ew.com/2012/03/27/jo...-fire-actress/

[gooseberry]

Naya Rivera for flavor. It's not an all white book character.

Ryan Gosling can do Finnick. He does not look young yet he has the charisma and the body of a Victor from years past.

[emjane18]

EW Asks: Who Should Play Finnick & Johanna in ‘Catching Fire’?
Now that The Hunger Games has been released, Entertainment Weekly’s PopWatch blog is taking a look at some potential actors to take on the fan favorite roles of Finnick and Johanna.

Here are their suggestions / reasoning for Finnick:

It seems to me that there’s one actor in Hollywood that’d be perfect for the role…but unfortunately, Chris Hemsworth happens to be the older brother of Liam, and it’s a well-known fact that the space-time continuum will implode if two Hemsworths appear in the same movie together.
Ryan Gosling would be good, but it’s hard to see him taking a supporting role in a franchise picture.
That’s also true of Channing Tatum — unfortunate, since Tatum has lately been refining a Finnick-esque mixture of handsome-man bravado and sly humor.
Twilight costar Kellan Lutz and I Am Number Four escapee Alex Pettyfer both have the ripped underwear-model look down, although its unclear if either actor has the gravitas to pull off Finnick’s darker edges.
If they wanted to play Finnick as a slightly older character, Luke Evans seems like he could play both Finnick’s caddish and sensitive sides.
EW’s Tanner Stransky suggested throwing Grant Gustin from Glee into the mix.
The best pick for Finnick is another TV actor — Ryan Kwanten, Jason Stackhouse on True Blood. He’s a bit older than book-Finnick, but he can do the rakish-soulful thing pretty well.
And their suggestions / reasoning for Johanna:

Kristen Bell has reportedly campaigned for the role, an idea which would have seemed much cooler before her curve-ball career turn into rom-coms.
Naya Rivera has been playing a very Johanna-like character on Glee.
Emilia Clarke‘s dragon queen on Game of Thrones has the wide-set eyes, the ability to balance internal struggle with external badassery, and a pro-nudity policy.
Margarita Levieva had a recurring role on Revenge as a bananagrams-crazy homicidal maniac.
Nikita star Lyndsy Fonseca came up frequently in initial conversations about casting Katniss, but Fonseca was always a little too old (and maybe too glam) to play the girl from District 12 — it’s worth throwing her into the mix.
Jurnee Smollett-Bell, besides a supporting role in the gone and forgotten The Defenders, she’s been mostly absent from the screen. Maybe that should change.
Mary Elizabeth Winstead has done a few action movies, although she doesn’t quite have the Johanna thousand-yard stare.
Rooney Mara, whose Lisbeth Salander in The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo would fit right into the post-apocalypse of The Hunger Games.
Gemma Arterton, who managed to seem evil in two movies where she was nominally playing the heroine love interest (Clash of the Titans andPrince of Persia.)
What about Mia Wasikowska? The young Australian actress has mostly avoided big Hollywood productions … but Wasikowska has a peculiar quality that strikes me as perfect for Johanna — she can seem simultaneously tortured, headstrong, and self-loathing.

[emjane18]

Naya Rivera would be an amazing Johanna

I can also see Mila Kunis as Johanna although I don’t think they’d be able to get her

[bayaniVAN]

Pwedeng Gaspard Ulliel as Finnick

[#1 critic]

Jason "abs" Stackhouse everybody!

[jaypogi]

PG-13 pa rin kaya? gusto ko ng patayan! lol

[Smurfs1992]

Watch the movie again. I think it was pretty obvious who Plutarch is? I was actually waiting for him to look at his Mockingjay watch but then I figured that Katniss was yet to be hailed as the symbolic Mockingjay prior to the QQ.

Can't wait. They can split the movie into two parts. The Victory Lap District Unrest, Victor Reapings and Victor Trainings then end when the QQ is about to start or just make the movie darn 3 hours long.

CF is the best installment of the trilogy IMO.

Ditto

[chocobangbang]

Jason "abs" Stackhouse everybody!

Kaya lang ang liit ni Stackhouse diba.

Ok na ako kay Armie Hammer!

[kimchew12]

Finnick - Basta magaling umarte... at baka lamunin sya ng buo ni J. law
at basta wag sila maglalagay ng mga actors na box office failure at laman ng mga iba't ibang franchise.... alam niyo na kung sino sila... hehehe

ganun din kay johanna..

at sa nangyaring casting sa THG na halos lahat eh ayaw ng fans... pero ipinush ng producers at ni ross... pero nagustuhan ng fans in the end... ganun din for sure sa CF. I think they won't go JUST for the looks but the acting ability!

[Aya_Alexa]

I really hope they'll have the same director and writers. Worried about what I've heard re: writers.

Brian Hallisay or Michael Cassidy for Finnick!

Amen for Brian Hallisay watched him on Privileged and he's hot. anyway anybody saw the IMDB page of THG? Daniel Newman is casted as Finick. wala ba nag aayos nung IMDB page nun.

[Aya_Alexa]

@ the casting list for Finick andaming in-favor for Grant Gustin. di ko alam kung bakit.

For Johanna Naya seems to be a nice choice would love to see her rock a shorter hair or a shaved one. but i pictured her more like Gemma Artenton..



and in Mockingjay something like Natalie Portman.



pero di na ako masyadong aarte pa i will just wait haha. basta someone who can act and bring out the best performance for the portrayal of the character.

[Aya_Alexa]

He’s kinda overrated, every book to film adaptation fancasting kasali siya and I don’t think he has the acting talent

Unprofessional din daw siya super drama queen, acting like he's a big shot actor even though he has not proven anything yet.

[kimchew12]

Unprofessional din daw siya super drama queen, acting like he's a big shot actor even though he has not proven anything yet.

oo mayabang siya sa mga interviews.. in short GGSS... wala namang acting ability...

[Aya_Alexa]

oo mayabang siya sa mga interviews.. in short GGSS... wala namang acting ability...

reason rin daw yung attitude niya kung bakit sila nag break ni Diana Agron.

[crazy legs]

Lori Petty and Michael Emerson for Nuts & Volts.

[kimchew12]

Feeling ko black guy si plutarch.... kelangan nila mag lagay ng black sa mga lead para matigil ang mga racist!

[Aquaman]

I imagined Plutarch would look someone like Sinbad.