I could absolutely see that. I had a slightly younger Randy Quaid in mind when I was reading the books.

To me, Effie is a little older than Kristen Chenoweth... I pictured someone more like Caroline Rhea.

Of course, nobody pays me to cast these things.

It's official (according to the official facebook site) that Elizabeth Banks is Effie

According to another website (http://www.hungergamestrilogy.net/movies/)

Glimmer is Levan Rambin
Marval is Jack Quaid (Meg and Dennis' son)

Someone remind me, who are Glimmer and Marval?

They're both of District 1's tributes.

I don't remember if Marvel was named in the books, but I double checked the hunger games wiki to be sure.

Thanks

District 3 Tributes

http://insidemovies.ew.com/2011/04/2...tributes-cast/

http://img2.timeinc.net/ew/dynamic/i...escott_320.jpg

Ian Nelson & Kalia Prescott

District 4 tributes

http://insidemovies.ew.com/2011/04/2...n-tara-macken/

http://img2.timeinc.net/ew/dynamic/i...macken_320.jpg

According to http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/the_...ger_games.html "And let's all give a warm welcome to District 5 newbies: Chris Mark as Tribute Boy and Jacqueline Emerson as FoxFace"

Woody Harrelson is Haymitch
http://www.firstshowing.net/2011/woo...-hunger-games/

Stanley Tucci has been cast as Ceasar Flickerman
http://www.monstersandcritics.com/mo...s-Hunger-Games

District 10 tributes
http://img2.timeinc.net/ew/i/2011/05...s-hood_320.jpg
http://insidemovies.ew.com/2011/05/1...t-10-tributes/

I think Woody Harrelson is a good choice...

I'm still waiting to see who will play Cinna....I think I'm the only one who see him as Asian.

No I can see that. I don't remember the physical description of him but I see him as small and slim.

I am currently reading the 3rd and final book. I LOVED the first 2 and read them quickly. I am 3/4 the way through the last. Have they cast Gale or Prim? I also think Woody Harrelson will be a good choice. Cinna, I don't really have a picture in my minds eye of him.

Gale is Liam Hemsworth and Prim is Willow Shields

Wes Bentley has been cast as Seneca Crane. I'm blanking who is this character?
Paula Malcomson has been cast as Mrs. Everdeen.

Seneca is the head gameskeeper....

Also, I really see Jeff Bridges at President Snow....pipedream, I know...and he doesn't fit the description....properly someone closer to a Malcolm McDowell is closer to the description.

God, why am I totally blanking on this character. Is Seneca the one who does all the interviews with the tributes prior to the games?

A friend is borrowing the books, what is the name of Katniss's designer? I wonder who that will be.

No he's the one who designs the game and takes the blame for the end result of the 74th games.

Cinna is the designer :D

I am starting to be more of a believer in Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss.


http://marquee.blogs.cnn.com/2011/05...role/?hpt=Sbin

I agree... make-up and hair dye can do wonderful things. I think the cover photo definitely says, "Katniss," so hopefully the actress can do the same in the entire movie.

Lenny Kravitz has been cast as Cinna! I can see it :)

I can so see Lenny as Cinna....that will be kinda cool

Has President Snow been cast? I'd love to see Tim Robbins in that role. But maybe that's because I've been harboring a crush on him since Bull Durham...

Lenny should rock the role of Cinna.

This thread has sucked me into those books, read the first two, the first in 48 hours and the second in under 24. I doubt I'll pick up the third because I read there isn't an actual hunger games in it, and to be honest that was the best part of both books by far to me. The first two were fascinating though.

One of those scenarios (like many horror movies) where you're reading it and going "Holy shit I would not last a day." I would have been sprinting right towards that cornucopia and some career would have finished me off.

And frankly, it's good to see a book with a very strong female character that would appeal equally to young (and 20 something, hah) boys and girls. Although I did read that many feel Katniss's character was still manipulated too much in the third book to really come full circle.

The third is worth reading though. Katniss has to face that manipulation and everything just as she did in the Hunger Games themselves, but does have agency.

Did anyone else read last weeks Entertainment Weekly? Peeta and Gale on the cover.

The trailer for the first movie.

I love the trailer. I can't wait for it to come out in theaters!
It'd make an excellent sisterhood event haha :)

Former professor who is a scenic artist worked on the movie - I'm just happy he got some work! Hope the movie does land office business.

I have watched the trailer already 3 times. I am not sick of it, each time I get more excited for the movie. I really hope the movie lives up to the trailer and the book.

I'm just curious how they are going to keep the violence in the book and get away with a PG-13 rating. Not going to mention any specific deaths for spoiler reasons, but there are definitely a couple that are going to be trouble...

Filming was going in the NC mountains about 3 miles from us this past summer. (Clearly, the first 20 seconds or so of the trailer.) Unfortunately, we never could get close enough to see anything, but still it was fun to know it was going on.

The trailer gives the impression that they might actually be faithful to the book. (Remembering Percy Jackson and the Olympians - The Lightning Thief and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2 with a shudder.) The only thing that bothered me was the way you hear the announcer say "pan-EM" instead of "PAN-em." Maybe Suzanne Collins meant for it to be "pan-EM" (though given the derivation she gives of the name, that seems unlikely), but it just sound strange to me. I keep thinking Pan Am.

Really looking forward to the movie, now.

In my mind, when I was reading it, I thought it was pan-EM, because I was not a Latin scholar, I wasn't thinking along those lines and they didn't reveal the Bread and Circuses origin until later in the 3rd book.

I assumed like "mutts" for mutations, they were referring to all-America, or Pan-America which got bastardized and truncated to Panem.

I'm actually OBSESSED with these books.

The trailer just seriously made me so happy. It was so perfectly emotional in all the right ways. I CAN'T WAIT TIL MARCH!!!!

Huh. Never thought of that, but that would make sense.

I picked up on the panem = bread right off the bat, though I didn't relate it to panem et circensis until the author made that connection in the third book; I just related it to bread and hunger (games).

Speaking of the third book, am I the only one who was really wasn't satisfied with the ending of the third book?

Thanks to this thread, I picked up a copy of The Hunger Games at the library this weekend. I returned it yesterday and finished Catching Fire this morning. I haven't started Mockingjay yet, but the first two were surprisingly quick, interesting reads. I'm glad that I read them after the trilogy was completed, because I think I would've hard a hard time waiting between the first two books.

I'm looking forward to the movies. Although, I know I'll be disappointed. Just based on the quick opening ceremonies clip in the preview, it doesn't look like Katniss will be wearing Cinna's awesome creations as described in the book.

On the one end I'm like "yeah that sucks" and then on the other I'm like "well... is it even possible to do it?" So, I think that maybe the imagery and metaphor will be similar but she won't actually be *on fire*.

I'm looking forward to the movies. From what I've seen, they've done a pretty great job at sticking as close as possible to the imagery in the book.

I know, I know. But with all the CGI capabilities, I'd think it'd be possible to do it. I'll reserve judgment for this once I actually see the movies.

I saw the trailer prior to another movie I saw over the holidays. It wasn't any different from the trailer MC linked earlier, but I guess I paid more attention. It appears to me, from just a brief glimpse of Prim at the reaping, that Madge will not be the one who gives Katniss the pin. I hope I saw that wrong, because that would kinda bum me out. Yes, it's minor (as is K's backpack being black instead of orange, and the possible change in her attire), but it stands out enough to merit commenting on.

Regarding the third book, I really liked it. Yes, it lacked a Hunger Game, but IMO the battle made up for it. It did seem to end abruptly, but considering everything that happened (and Collins' insistence that each book have exactly 27 chapters), I can see why it ended the way it did. I, too, missed the old Peeta, but the 'new' Peeta brought a (much-needed) added dimension to the plot.

All in all, an excellent series. I'm more excited about the movies now that I've finished the lot. Looking forward to watching it play out on the big screen.

I liked the third book up until about 2/3 of the way through. Then it just completely ran out of steam for me. I blame the insistance on having exactly 27 chapters divided into three nine-chapter "acts" for that. It really felt to me like "well, let's just hurry up and tie this all up." Only for me, it wasn't tied up, and it didn't fit with the rest of the trilogy. It felt to me like "Oh, another character we (and Katniss) care about dead. Oh well, too bad, move along, we have a schedule to keep."

Can you tell I was really disappointed in the end? :o

It was very abrupt and I was slightly disappointed in it. I loved the books but the third one really took more to get into especially once they got past their hiding place.

So I am late to this party... but I loved the first 2 books. Not as thrilled about the last one, don't like the fact that they were just killing people off left and right.

Although I am really excited to see the movie. I hope they do the book some justice.

Although it makes me nuts sometimes, there's definitely perks to my job: swag from media reps.

One of our magazine reps sent a note to us asking us to reply with "Team Gale" or "Team Peeta". I got my Team Peeta* shirt in the mail along with a $20 AMC gift card for the movie. WOO!

*I'm hoping I still like Peeta by the end of the series. I'm almost done with book two. I feel like I should like Gale, but I can't help but like Peeta.