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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He takes a deep breath. “Look, Katniss, I’ve been wanting to talk to you about the way I acted on the train. I mean, the last train. The one that brought us home. I knew you had something with Gale. I was jealous of him before I even officially met you. And it wasn’t fair to hold you to anything that happened in the Games. I’m sorry.”
His apology takes me by surprise. It’s true that Peeta froze me out after I confessed that my love for him during the Games was something of an act. But I don’t hold that against him. In the arena, I’d played that romance angle for all it was worth. There had been times when I didn’t honestly know how I felt about him. I still don’t, really.
“I’m sorry, too,” I say. I’m not sure for what exactly. Maybe because there’s a real chance I’m about to destroy him.
“There’s nothing for you to be sorry about. You were just keeping us alive. But I don’t want us to go on like this, ignoring each other in real life and falling into the snow every time there’s a camera around. So I thought if I stopped being so, you know, wounded, we could take a shot at just being friends,” he says.
LIKE THIS IS THE OPPOSITE OF NICE GUY AND IT WAS GLORIOUS TO BEHOLD.