5:23 pm - 02/15/2013
The award-winning writer behind "Game Change" has already finished "Mockingjay (Part One)" and now has the go-ahead for the follow-up.
Lionsgate has exercised its option for Danny Strong, who wrote the award-winning HBO movie Game Change, to pen the script for the second part of the company’s adaptation of Mockingjay, the finale of the Hunger Games movie series.
Strong had already written the script for Mockingjay, Part 1 and had a deal to write the script for the second part. But it was always contingent on the studio liking and approving his draft for Part One.
Now it’s all systems go for him to commence the new script.
Lionsgate is dividing the book into two parts, a la the finales for Harry Potter and Twilight.
It’s unclear how the book is being split. The story kicks off after heroine Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) escapes the fight-to-the-death games and reluctantly agrees to lead the districts of Panem in a rebellion against the Capitol. She teams with close friend Gale (Liam Hemsworth) to bring down the brutal rulers.
Francis Lawrence, currently shooting Hunger Games: Catching Fire, is expected to direct the movie while Nina Jacobson produces via her Color Force banner.
Strong is repped by CAA, Gotham Group, Sweeney Managent and Jackoway Tyerman.
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'Hunger Games: Mockingjay' Screenwriter Danny Strong to Begin Work on Part 2 aka Part 1 is finished
The award-winning writer behind "Game Change" has already finished "Mockingjay (Part One)" and now has the go-ahead for the follow-up.
Lionsgate has exercised its option for Danny Strong, who wrote the award-winning HBO movie Game Change, to pen the script for the second part of the company’s adaptation of Mockingjay, the finale of the Hunger Games movie series.
Strong had already written the script for Mockingjay, Part 1 and had a deal to write the script for the second part. But it was always contingent on the studio liking and approving his draft for Part One.
Now it’s all systems go for him to commence the new script.
Lionsgate is dividing the book into two parts, a la the finales for Harry Potter and Twilight.
It’s unclear how the book is being split. The story kicks off after heroine Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) escapes the fight-to-the-death games and reluctantly agrees to lead the districts of Panem in a rebellion against the Capitol. She teams with close friend Gale (Liam Hemsworth) to bring down the brutal rulers.
Francis Lawrence, currently shooting Hunger Games: Catching Fire, is expected to direct the movie while Nina Jacobson produces via her Color Force banner.
Strong is repped by CAA, Gotham Group, Sweeney Managent and Jackoway Tyerman.
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esp since mockingjay katniss was a M E S S, esp for the latter half. i dont want a whole movie of that nonsense, ugh.
But really, Catching Fire should be the book split into two parts. Mockingjay wasn't all that long or exciting enough to warrant two movies.
I mean, how do you have a scene like the Cornucopia and manage to sanitize it to the point that it's barely shocking or even interesting that 13 year olds are getting their throats slit? It really lacked.
Yes, I realize the irony in saying this with my u/n.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/M
I appreciate how they make things pan out in the books, showing why Gale would've been a bad choice, but, in the movies? Josh Hutcherson is a shit Peeta and the movies make me root for Gale.
i just think as the screenwriter he should have seen the previous movie and try to work off that as well as the original book, otherwise there will be plot/story/character inconsistencies to the max