The World Is Watching: Making the Hunger Games
8.2
122 minutes
8/18/2012
Overview
A feature length, eight part documentary that covers everything from pre-production to adapting the source novel to casting to shooting to post and marketing. This is an amazing in-depth piece and it's notable how many women were involved in this production, from several Lionsgate executives to novelist Suzanne Collins herself. Jennifer Lawrence talks about her "hypocrisy" in not wanting to do a big budget blockbuster after having devoted herself to indies (despite X-Men, which she seems to discount somewhat). There's also a nice sequence on the strength and weight training the actors went through and the stunts that are so notable in the film, as well as having to dance around the violence implicit in the story due to the planned PG-13 rating the filmmakers were aiming for.
Cast List
Suzanne Collins
as Self - Author
Jennifer Lawrence
as Self - Katniss Everdeen
Josh Hutcherson
as Self - Peeta Mellark
Liam Hemsworth
as Self - Gale Hawthorne
Donald Sutherland
as Self - President Coriolanus Snow
Elizabeth Banks
as Self - Effie Trinket
Lenny Kravitz
as Self - Cinna
Woody Harrelson
as Self - Haymitch Abernathy
Stanley Tucci
as Self - Caesar Flickerman
Wes Bentley
as Self - Seneca Crane
Willow Shields
as Self - Primrose Everdeen
Paula Malcomson
as Self - Katniss' Mother
Amandla Stenberg
as Self - Rue
Alexander Ludwig
as Self - Cato
Dayo Okeniyi
as Self - Thresh
Leven Rambin
as Self - Glimmer
Jack Quaid
as Self - Marvel
Isabelle Fuhrman
as Self - Clove
Jacqueline Emerson
as Self - Fox Face
Sandino Moya-Smith
as Self - Propaganda Film Tribute
Renae Moneymaker
as Self - Stunt Double
Gary Ross
as Self - Screenwriter
Billy Ray
as Self - Screenwriter
Chad Stahelski
as Self - Second Unit Director
Allison Shearmur
as Self - Executive Producer
Robin Bissell
as Self - Executive Producer
Nina Jacobson
as Self - Producer
Jon Kilik
as Self - Producer
Diana Alvarez
as Self - Co-Producer
Bryan Unkeless
as Self - Co-Producer
Debra Zane
as Self - Casting Director
Philip Messina
as Self - Production Designer
Larry Dias
as Self - Set Decorator
Judianna Makovsky
as Self - Costume Designer
Ve Neill
as Self - Makeup Department Head
Linda Flowers
as Self - Hair Department Head
Sheena Duggal
as Self - Visual Effects Supervisor
Scott Farrar
as Self - Visual Effects
James Newton Howard
as Self - Original Music Composer (archive footage)
Lon Bender
as Self - Sound Designer
Stephen Mirrione
as Self - Editor
David Levithan
as Self - Author, Nick & Noah's Infinite Playlist
Drew McWeeny
as Self - Film Critic