The plot of the paintings is as follows: the despotic state of the future every year arranges the demonstration games for survival, behind which the whole world is watching live. The lot participating in the game falls young Kitniss, which Lawrence plays, and secretly in love with her Pitu (Josh Hutcheron). They are familiar with childhood, but now should become enemies. After all, only one of the 24 participants can win on the irregular law of the hungry games.
The leading role is the 21-year-old Jennifer Lawrence - ready for the coming glory. Although it is somewhat afraid of it. "It's how to go to another planet, with which it is hardly to return," the actress argues. "Unknown, will you like there, whether friends will appear there." But there will be nothing to do - you have to survive. " But the fact that this glory will be, Jennifer, already familiar to the audience on the film "People of X: First Class" and brought her a nomination for Oscar "Winter Bone" tape, no doubt. Perhaps even Susann Collins - the author of the book "Hungry Games" - at one time did not expect such success. The idea was born from her during the evening watching TV. "Jumping" from the canal on the canal, the writer switched from a reality show for a report about the war in Iraq. Remembering stories that the father told her - a veteran of the Vietnamese War, and taking the ancient Greek myth about the object and Minotaur, Collins sat for a typewriter. In the fall of 2008, the novel instantly became a bestseller, was translated into 26 languages and acquired two continuations: "Flames" in 2009 and Soyuka-Peredashnitsa will be broken. Ahead clearly looked at the film.
In the center of the plot of the film - a love tre-carbonist, consisting of chitniss, her friend of childhood Gale and her loved in her. They were played by Liam Hemsworth and Josh Hutcherson, respectively. Independent roles in the picture also performed Woody Harrelson and Lenny Kravitz,
Work on the film began in March last year with casting actresses on a major role. The authors of the picture watched over 30 contenders, among which were both completely unknown girls and actresses with experience. But even more suitable for age for the role of the Chinese Hayley Stinefeld ("iron grip"), Abigail Breslin ("Little Miss Happiness"), Chloe Feretz ("Guardian of Time") and Sirsha Ronan ("Hannah. Perfect weapons") anyway gave way already "adult" Jennifer Lawrence. However, not without the help of Susann Collins, who personally approved Jennifer for the role: "I was the only one managed to convey the essence of the kityns, as I described her in the book," the writer explained. "And the fact that she is older, even better: it adds the heroine of maturity and power."
Although the Lawrence itself is still very peculiar attitude towards maturity. "Most recently, I allowed myself to take food from minibars. I previously thought: 6 dollars for a chocolate bar - it's very expensive! And recently in one hotel took and ate. And also opened all the bottles and tried their contents. I decided: I am an adult, and I can everything. And it does not matter how much it costs. For a 21-year-old girl, I'm already rich enough. "