Russ Bowen of WLOS: Unconfirmed report is that movie to be filmed in Asheville is ‘The Hunger Games’

Jason Sandford

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Russ Bowen of WLOS knows more about the movie to be filmed in Asheville. He’s tweeted it, and he comments:

I tweeted about it yesterday. Unconfirmed officially but source tells me director Gary Ross is in town with team scouting for The Hunger Games starring Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson and Liam Hemsworth. It’s a Lionsgate film with a budget of 60 million. Keep your fingers crossed.

Entertainment Weekly’s PopWatch says of the film:

With Josh Hutcherson and Liam Hemsworth joining Jennifer Lawrence in The Hunger Games movie adaptation, all three vertices are now in place. To those who haven’t yet read Hunger Games (what are you waiting for, the movie?), Katniss, Peeta, and Gale are the series’ equivalent of Andie, Blane, and Duckie, except, you know, fighting other teenagers to the death instead of going to prom. But just because they are at the center of the story doesn’t mean they’re the only characters fans are interested in casting. (Actually, one of the best aspects of Suzanne Collins’ books is that there is so much going on beyond the Team This and Team That mooning and fawning.)

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