See the Subsequent ‘Hunger Games’ in This Journey Down Reminiscence Lane

Have you been feeling nostalgic for the Hunger Games films? Lionsgate hopes so, as a result of it gave followers a protracted look again on the first 5 movies and a tease for the subsequent one, Sunrise on the Reaping.

Running at 16 minutes lengthy, the video goes via main moments of every film, like Lucy Gray profitable in Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes and Mockingjay Part I’s Katniss taking pictures down Capitol plane. Love them or hate them, the recap reminds you ways for a time, that preliminary trilogy with Jennifer Lawrence and Josh Hutcherson was an enormous second again within the day, and one of the crucial profitable book-to-TV variations of that period.

During the swap between films, the phrases “remember” flash on display screen like a hijacked TV broadcast, which pays off with the Reaping preview. There, footage of actors from the unique movies transitions to their youthful counterparts: Philip Seymour Hoffman’s Plutarch is Jesse Plemmons, Elizabeth Banks’ Effie turns into Elle Fanning, and Woody Harrelson’s Haymitch morphs to Joseph Zada. Having them say “remember” mid-shift is heavy-handed, however these films have by no means been refined.

With how a lot this leans on the previous, possibly Lionsgate will put the unique films again in theaters, since that’s all the fashion today. (If not, there’s at all times streaming: the primary 5 films are on Prime Video, and solely Songbirds is on Peacock.) the others Either approach, “remember” that Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping hits theaters on November 20.

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