The Hunger Games
In the previous entranceway of our ongoing series , Screen Rant ’s Ryan George reveals what ( probably ) encounter in thepitch meetingforThe Hunger Games . free-base on the Quran series of the same name by Suzanne Collins , The Hunger Gamesarrived after theHarry PotterandTwilightmovies had concluded , just in prison term to take the longing for YA adaption about teens in trouble ( and also love triangles ) .
The Hunger Gamesmovies star Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss Everdeen , a tricky huntsman living in a poverty - stricken district of Panem , a land that rose from the ashes of a post - apocalyptic North America . To keep the people of Panem both quash and entertained , the Capitol holds an yearly game where two spring chicken are chosen from each territorial dominion to fight to the death in a gargantuan stadium fill up with environmental booby ambuscade , until just one victor continue . When Katniss ' lilliputian sister is chosen for the Hunger Games , Katniss volunteer to take her situation - commence down a path that will eventually lead to all - out rotation .
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Though they may have been criticize for slip the premise of theBattle Royalemovies , parodied in movie likeThe Starving Games , and mocked in YouTube drollery videos , there ’s no deny the achiever of theHunger Gamesmovies . conjointly they gross almost$3 billion at the worldwide box officeand sparked a moving ridge of YA adaptations set in dystopian and post - apocalyptic civilization . Unfortunately , by the time those movies get along along the YA craze had full given way of life to the superhero moving picture craze , and franchises likeDivergentandThe Maze Runnernever quite reached the heights ofThe Hunger Games ' succeeder .
The Hunger Gameswasn’t just part of the YA trend - it was also part of the trend of stretching books out into more pic in gild to make more money . LikeHarry PotterandTwilight , the finalHunger Gamesbook , Mockingjay , was split into two parts for the big screen . Still , that ’s nothing compared to theHobbitmovies that come out at around the same time , which managed to spread a 310 - pageboy book over three movies and almost 9 hours of running fourth dimension .
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