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Gary Ross on not making Catching Fire 3D

Interviewer: Is 3D something you'll even consider...
Gary Ross: No absolutely not
Interviewer: Why's that?
Gary Ross: I don't think it's appropriate for this film. Um I don't.. I think that if we shoot this movie in 3D, we become the Capitol. We start making spectacle out of something, that I don't think is really appropriate here. There needs to be an aesthetic distance here, because of the nature of the material.
She made a move for center stage, thought better of it when she saw that Ross was still talking, and then comically dived back behind the curtain. When Ross finally did call for her to come out, Lawrence tripped during the walk to center stage. “She’s good at comedy, too,” Ross laughed. As she walked off, Lawrence noticed Hutcherson was mocking her walk. She turned and, in front of the crowd of thousands, laughingly gave him a Hunger Games three-finger salute . The crowd roared with delight.
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E! Reporter: Team Peeta or Team Gale?
Gary Ross: Team Katniss.
Catching Fire won’t open until November 2013, but director Gary Ross tells Us he and author Suzanne Collins are already thinking casting. Example: For playboy Finnick Odair, “I already decided who I want!” he teases.
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cuatroquesos: When FilmInk asks the affable and enjoyably candid Ross if he’s feeling any pressure on the eve of the release of The Hunger Games, the director lets out a sly laugh. “Do you know what pressure is? Pressure is when nobody has heard of you,” he smiles broadly, “and you’ve put a year of your life into a film and you’re really hoping that it will resonate with people. Pressure was spending three years on Pleasantville and hoping that this original thing that I had done was going to find an audience or be remembered. So this is actually very nice. We’ve been very faithful to the book, but the film gives you a very rich cinematic experience that honours what the book is.” … Was she precious at all? “No, shockingly not,” Ross laughs. “I would sometimes be careful, and she’d go, ‘Gary, this is the film adaptation. Some things work and some things don’t.’ Suzanne had been a television writer, so she understood how some things worked better cinematically. While we were shooting, I added two scenes involving Donald Sutherland’s President Snow that weren’t in the book, and she loved those scenes. There was a part of her that I actually think was more turned on by the additions and the changes because they were fresh and exciting for her. It was a really great collaboration. There was nothing difficult in it.” Suzanne Collins’ books have a far grittier and more violent edge than those of her fellow literary colleagues, J.K. Rowling and Stephenie Meyer, despite being pitched at a young audience. “I read about the Roman circus,” Ross says of his preparation for the film. “It lasted for 900 years, and by the end of it, they were slaughtering hundreds of people a day, along with elephants and hippopotami. The spectacle of blood grew more and more lurid as society got more and more decadent. To Suzanne Collins, that’s what The Hunger Games really were – cler to Roman spectacle than anything else.”

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When FilmInk asks the affable and enjoyably candid Ross if he’s feeling any pressure on the eve of the release of The Hunger Games, the director lets out a sly laugh. “Do you know what pressure is? Pressure is when nobody has heard of you,” he smiles broadly, “and you’ve put a year of your life into a film and you’re really hoping that it will resonate with people. Pressure was spending three years on Pleasantville and hoping that this original thing that I had done was going to find an audience or be remembered. So this is actually very nice. We’ve been very faithful to the book, but the film gives you a very rich cinematic experience that honours what the book is.” …

Was she precious at all? “No, shockingly not,” Ross laughs. “I would sometimes be careful, and she’d go, ‘Gary, this is the film adaptation. Some things work and some things don’t.’ Suzanne had been a television writer, so she understood how some things worked better cinematically. While we were shooting, I added two scenes involving Donald Sutherland’s President Snow that weren’t in the book, and she loved those scenes. There was a part of her that I actually think was more turned on by the additions and the changes because they were fresh and exciting for her. It was a really great collaboration. There was nothing difficult in it.”

Suzanne Collins’ books have a far grittier and more violent edge than those of her fellow literary colleagues, J.K. Rowling and Stephenie Meyer, despite being pitched at a young audience. “I read about the Roman circus,” Ross says of his preparation for the film. “It lasted for 900 years, and by the end of it, they were slaughtering hundreds of people a day, along with elephants and hippopotami. The spectacle of blood grew more and more lurid as society got more and more decadent. To Suzanne Collins, that’s what The Hunger Games really were – cler to Roman spectacle than anything else.”

welcome-to-district-12: Entertainment Weekly article about Donald Sutherland and how he petitioned to play Snow, which inspired Gary Ross to write TWO new scenes in the film!

welcome-to-district-12:

Entertainment Weekly article about Donald Sutherland and how he petitioned to play Snow, which inspired Gary Ross to write TWO new scenes in the film!

From the new Hollywood Reporter article!

From the new Hollywood Reporter article!

hungergamesfanatics:

Gary Ross on the Film’s Rating;

“I don’t think it has to be violent in order to be urgent. For the majority of the movie Katniss is being pursued and it’s a violent universe she’s in. But that doesn’t mean the violence has to be depicted gruesomely or exploited in any way.”

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