NEW (DISTRICT) CHARACTER POSTERS FOR HUNGER GAMES

The districts are the regions which must submit a boy and girl contestant for the games. They are identified by their primary export. 

Kate, as our resident PC thug you should find the Hunger Games interesting. It's chocked full of socio-political context for you to get all reactionary about.

I grasp what I'm seeing there, and it's still a shits awful way to market this film.

The most interesting thing about the first novel is what finally will not be present in the movie: the difficulty of the survival in the arena. Sixteen year old Katniss goes all out First Blood / The Edge in the novel and fights starvation, poisoning, avoids being killed by others, avoids others to be killed by others and also regularly needs to escape deadly traps.

There's no way they'll show her suffering in any intense way. She'll always be quite pretty and never really roughed up, and her focus will be who to kiss when the games will be over, instead of how to survive the games at first place.

And it's completely understandable, because we as Cliffhanger fans wouldn't touch The Hunger Games even if it was praised as a great survival flick, and the main target group doesn't give a fuck about the novel's main points. They want this to be about the pretty girl having a light adventure in which she needs to decide wether to take Taylor Lautner carbon copy 1 or 2. And from a marketing point of view it'd be nuts not do go that route, even if it creates a less interesting movie.

The most interesting thing about the first novel is what finally will not be present in the movie: the difficulty of the survival in the arena. Sixteen year old Katniss goes all out First Blood / The Edge in the novel and fights starvation, poisoning, avoids being killed by others, avoids others to be killed by others and also regularly needs to escape deadly traps.There's no way they'll show her suffering in any intense way. She'll always be quite pretty and never really roughed up, and her focus will be who to kiss when the games will be over, instead of how to survive the games at first place.

And it's completely understandable, because we as Cliffhanger fans wouldn't touch The Hunger Games even if it was praised as a great survival flick, and the main target group doesn't give a fuck about the novel's main points. They want this to be about the pretty girl having a light adventure in which she needs to decide wether to take Taylor Lautner carbon copy 1 or 2. And from a marketing point of view it'd be nuts not do go that route, even if it creates a less interesting movie.