FÖRSTA BILDEN PÅ KATNISS!

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EW.COM har lagt ut en officiel bild på Katniss!!! Och nu trendar Katniss WorldWide på twitter också, haha!
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RUE OCH THRESH ÄR VALDA TILL HUNGER GAMES

För bara en stund sedan bekräftade Lionsgate att de har castat spelarna från distrikt 11!!! Rue spelas av Amandla Stenberg, och Dayo Okeniy kommer att spela Thresh!

The Hunger Games adaptation has already found its District 12 tributes in Jennifer Lawrence (Katniss) and Josh Hutcherson (Peeta). Now, Lionsgate has set its sights on District 11: EW has confirmed exclusively that the studio has cast Hollywood newcomers Dayo Okeniyi and Amanda Stenberg as Thresh and Rue in the adaptation of the Suzanne Collins trilogy, directed by Gary Ross.

 Vi börjar fatta att det faktiskt händer! Hur känner ni över de skådisar som hittils är valda? We couldn't be some excited!!!

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Suzanne Collins om Jennifer Lawrence!

Många tvivlar på att Jennifer Lawrence kommer klara av att spela Katniss. Nu har Suzanne Collins gått ut och talat om för alla oss fans varför Jennifer är Katniss. Själv litar jag på att Suzanne vet vad hon gör. Det är hon som har skrivit böckerna och manuset, hon om någon vet vem Katniss är. Det handlar inte bara om utseende utan också om Jennifers talang. Jag tvivlade lite i början men efter att jag läst vad Suzanne skrivit finns det ingenting att tvivla på längre och jag hoppas att många andra fans känner lika dant!
Här är Suzannes uttalande!

Dear Readers,

We have found Katniss.

As the author, I went into the casting process with a certain degree of trepidation. Believing your heroine can make the leap from the relative safety of the page to the flesh and bones reality of the screen is something of a creative act of faith. But after watching dozens of auditions by a group of very fine young actresses, I felt there was only one who truly captured the character I wrote in the book.  And I’m thrilled to say that Jennifer Lawrence has accepted the role.

In her remarkable audition piece, I watched Jennifer embody every essential quality necessary to play Katniss. I saw a girl who has the potential rage to send an arrow into the Gamemakers and the protectiveness to make Rue her ally. Who has conquered both Peeta and Gale’s hearts even though she’s done her best to wall herself off emotionally from anything that would lead to romance. Most of all, I believed that this was a girl who could hold out that handful of berries and incite the beaten down districts of Panem to rebel. I think that was the essential question for me. Could she believably inspire a rebellion? Did she project the strength, defiance and intellect you would need to follow her into certain war? For me, she did.

Jennifer’s just an incredible actress. So powerful, vulnerable, beautiful, unforgiving and brave. I never thought we’d find somebody this amazing for the role. And I can’t wait for everyone to see her play it.

Thank you all for sharing in this journey and may the odds be ever in your favor!

Love,
Suzanne Collins

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Gary Ross pratar om sitt beslut att välja Jennifer Lawrence som Katniss

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: When did you know Jennifer Lawrence was your Katniss?
GARY ROSS: First I saw Winter’s Bone, and I just thought she was phenomenally talented and just kind of riveting and amazing and had so much power. And then we had a meeting and I found her to be just a completely compelling, intelligent person. But then she came in and read for me and it just knocked me out. I don’t want to go into too many details, but we did a scene from the movie and it was so amazingly powerful that it was sort of stunning. You glimpsed every aspect of the role and the potential of the whole movie.

There’s already quite a bit of hand-wringing that, no matter how good an actress Lawrence is, at 20 she’s simply too old for the role.
First of all I talked to Suzanne extensively about this. Suzanne saw every single audition. And not only did Suzanne not have an issue with Jen’s age, she felt you need someone of a certain maturity and power to be Katniss. This is a girl who needs to incite a revolution. We can’t have an insubstantial person play her, and we can’t have someone who’s too young to play this. Suzanne was incredibly adamant about this. Far from being too old, she was very concerned that we would cast someone who was too young. In Suzanne’s mind, and in mine, Katniss is not a young girl. It’s important for her to be a young woman. She’s a maternal figure in her family. She’s had to take care of Prim and in many ways her mother since her father’s death. She’s had to grow up pretty quick.

In the books, Katniss is described as being olive-skinned, dark-haired, possibly biracial. Did you discuss with Suzanne the implications of casting a blonde, caucasian girl?
Suzanne and I talked about that as well. There are certain things that are very clear in the book. Rue is African-American. Thresh is African-American. Suzanne had no issues with Jen playing the role. And she thought there was a tremendous amount of flexibility. It wasn’t doctrine to her. Jen will have dark hair in the role, but that’s something movies can easily achieve. [Laughs] I promise all the avid fans of The Hunger Games that we can easily deal with Jennifer’s hair color.

Have you had conversations with her about the enormity of stepping not just into a franchise like this, but a character that is already so beloved by the world? How do you prepare a young person for that?

Oh god, have you ever met her? [Laughs] Don’t worry about Jen Lawrence. She’s a very powerful person. Jennifer is from Kentucky. I think she feels such a complete connection to who Katniss is, the way many people do, but this just seems like a very good fit to her. I think she’s very confident about the role, I think it feels very organic to her. She’s ready to dive in. She goes to archery class next week. Yeah, she’s going to start shooting arrows next week! I think by the end of the week she’s going to be learning to climb trees. She’s a very strong, confident young woman. She’s very confident in her own talent and who she is as a woman, and I think that all these things make her want to dive into the role.

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Jennifer Lawrence svarar på tre frågor!

Entertainment Weekly har ställt tre frågor till Jennifer Lawrence, vår nya Katniss!

What scene from the three books made you the most excited to play Katniss?
I don’t think a particular scene made me excited to play Katniss, the entire book made me want that. That being said, I’ve never shot a bow and arrow, so that’ll be cool.

What character besides Katniss are you fondest of, and what is it about them you love?
Peeta. He’s good and nice in a world that’s harsh and unkind.

What heroines from movies past do you think have some of Katniss’ fighting spirit?
Sigourney Weaver’s “Ripley” in Alien is the first that comes to mind.

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Nytt release datum!!!

Gary Ross har nu pratat med EW (Entertainment Weekly) och sagt att The Hunger Games kommer att släppas den 23 mars 2012, alltså om drygt ett år! Han har även sagt att dom kommer börja med inspelningarna senare i vår. Visst känns det spännande med sådana här nyheter?!

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