Background on ‘The Hunger Games,’ big motion picture reportedly to be shot around Asheville

Time to get up to speed on The Hunger Games, the big Hollywood movie reportedly to be shot in/around Asheville. Here are the basics: the movie is based on a young adult trilogy of novels by author Suzanne Collins, who has also written the screenplay. (The first book is called The Hunger Games.) Collins is an experienced writer who also penned the New York Times bestselling series The Underland Chronicles.

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The movie rights were acquired by Lionsgate in March of 2009. The second installment in the trilogy is titled Catching Fire, and the third novel, which was released on August 24, 2010, is titled Mockingjay.

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The story is set is the area known as Panem, which occupies what used to be known as North America. In post apocalyptic times, the area is divided into 12 districts controlled by dictatorship, in a city known as Capital. Every year, twenty-four teenagers (one boy and one girl from each of the 12 districts) are drawn by lottery to play in the “Hunger Games”, a gladiator style survival game. The games have only one rule: players may not eat the players who have died, or otherwise commit cannibalism. The twenty four teens must fight each other; the last player standing is the winner and is rewarded with a life of comfort. The other twenty three players perish in the game.