Taking a page from The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Parts 1 & 2 and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Parts 1 & 2, Lionsgate Films has announced that the Hunger Games book trilogy is going to be adapted into 4 films … meaning the third book, Mockingjay, will likely be broken up [...]
Taking a page from The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Parts 1 & 2 and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Parts 1 & 2, Lionsgate Films has announced that the Hunger Games book trilogy is going to be adapted into 4 films … meaning the third book, Mockingjay, will likely be broken up into two films … Parts 1 & 2. The first film has only just gone into production but executives at Lionsgate want investors to know that they are going to do everything they can to make as much money from the franchise as possible.
Lionsgate executives told Wall Street analysts this morning to expect big things from The Hunger Games, a series of four action films that the studio will release from the trilogy written by Suzanne Collins. COO Joe Drake said it was “the highest-selling film we’ve ever had” at the Cannes Film Festival and that overseas exhibitors consider it “the movie that can change their company.” Although Lionsgate wouldn’t disclose its budget for the films, Drake says Hunger Games could become an “outsized success” for Lionsgate. The studio says it bought the rights before the books became runaway bestsellers, and it has “retained the majority of the upside” in its talent and distribution deals.
I am not quite sure how to feel about this. Clearly, it’s becoming a trend to break books into 2 films — particularly where a trilogy or book series is concerned — and I suppose it’s a good trend. If a book is turned into 2 films, more of the meat of the original source material can be featured in the films. Where Mockingjay is concerned, there is a lot of action going on that could be spread over 2 films. I guess on the downside, it kinda feels like a cheap ploy to exploit a book series for more financial gain. We’ll have to see how all of this turns out. I didn’t mind that The Deathly Hallows got broken into 2 films because, in the end, Parts 1 & 2 will fell like two totally different films. I find it gross that Breaking Dawn is being broken into 2 films because the original book is so flimsy that it doesn’t really warrant the need for 2 films. What do y’all think? Are you excited about plans for the 3 Hunger Games books to be turned into 4 films?
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