“I was so against it!” Jennifer Lawrence received The Hunger Games to better torpedo the saga

Adapted from the successful literary saga written by Susan Collins, the Hunger Games tetralogy was a real box office machine for the Lionsgate studio. Between the first part of The Hunger Games, which was released in 2012, and the fourth chapter, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 2, which was released just three years later, the saga earned $2.97 billion at the worldwide box office.

We can better understand the studio’s interest in not letting go of its billionaire Martingay, to the point of blessing the start of construction on the prequel, called Hunger Games: The Ballad of the Serpent and Songbird, which is expected to be released on November 15. and which takes place 64 years before the events of the first film.

It’s also, of course, the saga that largely helped launch Jennifer Lawrence’s career into an orbit that she owes almost everything to. Today, it’s unthinkable to imagine a film adaptation without an actress slipping into Katniss Everdeen’s garb.

However, the actor was enthusiastic about the idea of ​​this adaptation. sample ? A big fan of the books, he was afraid of a disastrous adaptation and took part in the audition… reluctantly. Yes, yes, you read that right.

He explained this in an interview DigitalSpy website in 2012. “I had read all three books and I liked them. When I heard that they were going to make a movie out of it, I thought: “That’s great. Another great book ruined by a movie franchise. I was very against it!

In my head, I only went to the director on the first date to reprimand him. But on all the points I had prepared—all the important points that a movie adaptation of the book wouldn’t work—he agreed with me. He was fond of books; We were all… Created by fans. I was scared of this project and at the same time I didn’t want to miss out on what I love.”