{"id":90705,"date":"2023-10-16T15:43:20","date_gmt":"2023-10-16T22:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=90705"},"modified":"2023-10-16T15:43:20","modified_gmt":"2023-10-16T22:43:20","slug":"the-director-of-the-hunger-games-confesses-his-biggest-regret-in-the-saga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/the-director-of-the-hunger-games-confesses-his-biggest-regret-in-the-saga\/","title":{"rendered":"The director of &#8216;The Hunger Games&#8217; confesses his biggest regret in the saga"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent interview with <strong>People<\/strong> magazine, the director of the successful &#8216;<strong>The Hunger Games<\/strong>&#8216; mentions, &#8220;<em>I totally regret<\/em>&#8221; having made the decision to divide &#8216;Mockingjay&#8217;, the end book of the saga into two films, ensuring that he understands how frustrating that could have been for the fans.<\/p>\n<p>The director, <strong>Francis Lawrence<\/strong>, made his perception public and commented that; &#8220;<em>Making people wait a year was seen, in my opinion, as something hypocritical, although it really wasn&#8217;t<\/em>&#8220;, however this commercial strategy generated a lot of profits for the film, although it certainly wasn&#8217;t enough from a narrative point of view.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-90749\" src=\"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Although-this-project-had-a-great-reception-from-the-public-Francis-Lawrence-says-it-was-frustrating.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"680\" height=\"685\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Although-this-project-had-a-great-reception-from-the-public-Francis-Lawrence-says-it-was-frustrating.jpg 680w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Although-this-project-had-a-great-reception-from-the-public-Francis-Lawrence-says-it-was-frustrating-298x300.jpg 298w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Although-this-project-had-a-great-reception-from-the-public-Francis-Lawrence-says-it-was-frustrating-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Although-this-project-had-a-great-reception-from-the-public-Francis-Lawrence-says-it-was-frustrating-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, there are also good things about this decision, and that is that by being divided into 2 parts, the director had the opportunity to include more details from <strong>Suzanne Collins<\/strong>&#8216; dystopian novels, and in addition make the plot more interesting and lasting, even so his opinion is firm and he says; &#8220;<em>I&#8217;m not sure if others regret it, but I definitely do<\/em>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>The same filmmaker will carry out the adaptation of the <strong>prequel<\/strong> &#8216;The Hunger Games: Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes&#8217;, which raised the question of whether they would use the same strategy, to which Lawrence quickly refused and responded clearly and accurately; &#8220;<em>I would never let them divide the book in two<\/em>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NoConCulture\/status\/1714023836084211991\" class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">In a recent interview, \u2018Hunger Games: Mockingjay\u2019 director Francis Lawrence admitted he wouldn&#39;t divide the final book into two films if he had the opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I totally regret it. I totally do,&quot; he said. &quot;I&#39;m not sure everybody does, but I definitely do.&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/HungerGames?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#HungerGames<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/F7SGC27Frw\">pic.twitter.com\/F7SGC27Frw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; No Context Culture (@NoConCulture) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NoConCulture\/status\/1714023836084211991?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October 16, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Although it is true that it is a longer book, the director explains that he will not make the same mistake that he was criticized for once, so he revealed; &#8220;<em>We will make a <strong>longer<\/strong> movie<\/em>&#8221; so the prequel will be the longest installment of the saga, with a duration of 2 hours 36 minutes, and will be available on November 17th in theaters.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think of this decision by the director to divide these productions of &#8216;The Hunger Games&#8217;?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent interview with People magazine, the director of the successful &#8216;The Hunger Games&#8216; mentions, &#8220;I totally regret&#8221; having made the decision to divide &#8216;Mockingjay&#8217;, the end book of the saga into two films, ensuring that he understands how frustrating that could have been for the fans. 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