Have you felt nostalgic for him? Hunger Games cinema? Lionsgate hopes so, because it gave fans a look back at the first five films and a sneak peek at the next one. Dawn at the harvest.
The video lasts 16 minutes and covers the most important moments of each film, such as Lucy Gray winning in Ballad of songbirds and snakes and Mockingjay Part I Katniss shooting down a Capitol plane. Love them or hate them, the summary reminds you how, for a time, that initial trilogy with Jennifer Lawrence and Josh Hutcherson was a big moment in its day and one of the most successful book-to-TV adaptations of that era.
During the change between movies, the words “remember” flash on the screen like a hijacked television broadcast, which pays off with the Harvest advance. There, the images of the actors from the original films transition to their younger counterparts: Philip Seymour Hoffman’s Plutarch is Jesse Plemmons, Elizabeth Banks’ Effie becomes Elle Fanningand Woody Harrelson’s Haymitch transforms into Joseph Zada. Making them say “remember” mid-shift is heavy-handed, but these movies have never been subtle.
With how much this leans on the past, maybe Lionsgate will put the original films back in theaters since that’s all the rage these days. (If not, there’s always streaming: the first five movies are on main videoand only songbirds it’s on Peacock.) the others In any case, “remember” that The Hunger Games: Dawn of the Harvest hits theaters on November 20.
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