How The "Hunger Games" Team Brought "Mockingjay ? Part 1" From The Page To The Screen

BuzzFeed - Director Francis Lawrence, screenwriter Peter Craig, and producer Nina Jacobson spoke to BuzzFeed News about adapting the final installment of Suzanne Collins’ best-selling franchise. MAJOR SPOILERS! Warning: The following story contains MAJOR SPOILERS for The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1. Jennifer Lawrence in The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1. Murray Close / Lionsgate When screenwriter and author Peter Craig (The Town) first got the call about adapting Suzanne Collins' best-selling novel Mockingjay — the culmination of the wildly popular Hunger Games series about reluctant revolutionary Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) — into two feature films, he dropped the phone. His shock could have been due to the daunting task of transforming Collins' darkest and most psychological novel into a global commercial blockbuster, or having to artificially split the book's narrative into two franchise-extending movies. Instead, the reason was muc