Q: The Hunger Games is an annual televised event in which one boy and one girl from each of the twelve districts is forced to participate in a fight-to-the-death on live TV. Q: Are you able to consider future projects while working on The Hunger Games, or are you immersed in the world you are currently creating so fully that it is too difficult to think about new ideas?Ī: I have a few seeds of ideas floating around in my head but-given that much of my focus is still on The Hunger Games-it will probably be awhile before one fully emerges and I can begin to develop it. But how certain moments are depicted will ultimately be in the director's hands. A lot of things are acceptable on a page that wouldn't be on a screen. Finally, there's the challenge of how to present the violence while still maintaining a PG-13 rating so that your core audience can view it. In the novel, you never leave Katniss for a second and are privy to all of her thoughts so you need a way to dramatize her inner world and to make it possible for other characters to exist outside of her company. Then there's the question of how best to take a book told in the first person and present tense and transform it into a satisfying dramatic experience. The story has to be condensed to fit the new form. When you're adapting a novel into a two-hour movie you can't take everything with you. What is the biggest difference between writing a novel and writing a screenplay?Ī: There were several significant differences. Q: We understand you worked on the initial screenplay for a film to be based on The Hunger Games. While I didn't know every detail, of course, the arc of the story from gladiator game, to revolution, to war, to the eventual outcome remained constant throughout the writing process. Did it actually end the way you planned it from the beginning?Ī: Very much so. Q: You have said from the start that The Hunger Games story was intended as a trilogy. Powerful and haunting, this thrilling final installment of Suzanne Collins's groundbreaking The Hunger Games trilogy promises to be one of the most talked about books of the year.Ī Q&A with Suzanne Collins, Author of Mockingjay (The Final Book of The Hunger Games) Not Katniss's family, not her friends, not the people of District 12. And what's worse, President Snow has made it clear that no one else is safe either. Who do they think should pay for the unrest? Katniss. But now that she's made it out of the bloody arena alive, she's still not safe. Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has survived the Hunger Games twice.
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