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Lenny Kravitz To Join 'The Hunger Games'
Source: THR
Rock musician Lenny Kravitz is the latest to sign on to the enormous cast of Lionsgate's adaptation of 'The Hunger Games'. The film - adapted from the best-selling series of young adult sci-fi novels by Suzanne Collins - takes place in a future world where America has succumbed to drought, fire, famine, and war and has re-emerged as a 12-district country called Panem. Each year, Panem hosts "The Hunger Games" - a vicious Olympic-like competition where two young members of each district are pitted against each other in deadly battle while the nation watches. When her younger sister is selected, 16-year-old Katniss Everdeen (played by Jennifer Lawrence) instead volunteers to take her place.
Kravitz has signed on to play the role of Cinna, the stylist assigned to Katniss upon entering the Games. Much like the Olympics, each Hunger Games involves it's fair share of spectacle and celebration, and Cinna's unusual designs (including one that literally ignites the wearer in synthetic flames) help Katniss gain the audience's favor. Kravitz actually gained director Gary Ross's favor with his work in 2009's 'Precious' - "It was quiet and strong and understated and open-hearted: all qualities which define this character", Ross said.
With 12 districts, 24 competitors, a legion of support characters, politicians, and workers, the cast list for 'Hunger Games' grows larger every day. Currently, the film is set to star (big inhale): Jennifer Lawrence, Liam Hemsworth, Elizabeth Banks, Stanley Tucci, Josh Hutcherson, Woody Harrelson, Willow Shields, Wes Bentley... and that's not even naming the majority of tween-to-teen age actors who have been cast as the actual competitors. 'The Hunger Games' began shooting last week in North Carolina, and the film is expected to arrive in theaters on March 23rd, 2012.
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Comment by Gift of the Magi on May 25, 2011 at 12:17am -
@TheLizardHead: Maybe no one has mentioned it because the connection is a bit obvious? Even my wife, the one that introduced me to the book, admitted it's a LOT like Battle Royale. Not completely mind you. In Battle Royale, whole classes are taken at random and forced to fight to the death or be killed themselves. The Hunger Games is a lottery system of one boy and one girl from these districts, and no exploding neck-collar things either. Plus, they add the district gets rewards if they win bit.
...In a way, Battle Royale rips off much older films and books: Death Race 2000 and The Running Man come to mind. So if you're looking for a lot of people claiming this is just Battle Royale...well, move on. The only reason it IS mentioned at all is because they have not seen what that book is based on yet.
@BadAss Knives: You make an excellent point, my friend. While I might disagree that EVERY sci-fi film is about a 'fucked up' future, it does seem to be the basic background to FAR too many stories of late. I cannot be sure if this is a cheap way to build drama for their story or because in general the public thinks the future is going to be a horrible thing to look forward to and expects it in such tales. Personally though, I'm leaning toward the former.
With rare exception, the most successful sci-fi action films involve some awful event or dystopian world where the heroes most battle their way out of it toward a promised tomorrow, where the sins of today can be washed away. WAY too often, such films also try to preach at us about some social issue that the writer or director thinks is relevant.
Avatar is a PRIME example of this. Here we have a standard Cameron tale about HUMANS messing up Earth to the point it's almost completely unlivable, and then going to an alien paradise to do the same thing all over again. The only way to change things is for the HUMANS to stop being HUMAN and become alien themselves, because this paradise is deadly and poisonous to HUMANS. At the end, paradise is saved by the Human/Alien hybrid and his reward is to become completely alien, rejecting humanity forever. Add in a military and corporation without a name, whose only purpose is to 'be evil and kill things for money/pride', and you have a very pretty film that preaches that HUMANS are basically evil and WILL destroy everything they touch unless they stop being human.
...and now you might see why I found that film a bit boring...
A lot of people loved Avatar and bought into this storyline, some because they could buy into the idea that we are such a destructive species that we could be that 'evil'. Sorry, but I don't. A positive theme however about us developing into a better society unfortunately is almost always a war story. Some alien invader comes to fuck things up and we have to fight for our lives just to survive.
It would be nice to see a positive future every once in a while, but I don't expect to see it any time soon. Hollywood loves crappy futures WAY too much.
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Comment by Majin B-mag on May 24, 2011 at 5:53pm -
I don't know about this, I always imagined Cinna looked like someone like Nathan Fillion,
but I'll hold my judgement until I see his acting in this film
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Comment by Michael on May 24, 2011 at 5:15pm -
Someone, please hire Miley Cyrus so I can see her die.
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Comment by Nikoniko9 on May 24, 2011 at 5:15pm -
Awesome. I love The Hunger Games.
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Comment by Yesteryear on May 24, 2011 at 2:16pm -
BadAss: because...hmm good point. I think half of time the writers feel like its a requirement, and the rest want to make some society statement where has been stated before. If you think about most of stories that show a better humanity take place in space(star trek for example yes TV show but books and tv shows are guilty of this too.) I also want one progressed society in a book/movie/show with a interesting story.
on the topic of the hunger games and this guy-Meh just meh he looks okay but I feel very,very neutral towards this movie because a-I only really liked the first hunger games books and b-this movie is just a bandwagon jumper if you ask me.
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Comment by mjtfreeze on May 24, 2011 at 2:03pm -
Loved this the trilogy, I even liked how it ended ( won't spoil it for anyone). But I have some reservations about Kravitz playing Cinna, but then again I haven't seen him act in anything. For some reason, I was expecting someone like James Frain ( Jarvis from Tron Legacy) to play Cinna, even though the character maybe younger ( haven't read the book in months so I may have forgotten his age). That said, hope Kravitz does a good job.
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Comment by tarantinolover12 on May 24, 2011 at 1:43pm -
I really wasn't expecting Cinna to be black. I don't know about Lenny Kravitz, he was good in Precious, but I know him more for his music rather than his acting.
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Comment by Amia on May 24, 2011 at 1:39pm -
i've read the series and he is seriously, the LAST person i would pick to be Cinna. but he's Lenny Kravitz. i'll give it a chance
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Comment by BadAss Knives on May 24, 2011 at 12:44pm -
OK Spillios, one question. Why does every story that takes place in the future has to have a fucked up society? I mean really can anyone make a damn sci/fi movie where society has progressed instead of regressed?.... but still have an interesting story? Can anyone answer that? And I don't count bicentennial man because it was not a good movie.
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Comment by FilmKiller on May 24, 2011 at 12:05pm
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In other exciting news, rocks are rocky. =)
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