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They are going to try and get blood from a stone on this one.
I have no doubt that they would be able to wring more angst from a new set of kids killing each other in each subsequent film if they did do prequels, but that would entirely Miss the Point of the series.
While it might be neat to see how Haymitch won his Quarter Quell, and ended up an alcoholic, would there really be an overarching point to seeing kids kill each other within this system given that Hunger Games was about the historical cycle of oppression and revolution (and what that really means)? It would turn the series into a repetitive splatterfest like Friday the 13th (which isn't a bad thing as tingly escapism goes, but I think Hunger Games is better than that, particularly as Young Adult Fiction).
If they did sequels, the point of the ambiguous ending for Mockingjay was whether or not they would repeat the same mistakes once Katniss walks away from it all. Let the viewer/reader decide for themselves whether or not they resume the Hunger Games eventually. Not make it another pointless foregone conclusion.
I really enjoyed the Battle Royale manga, novel and movie, but the attempts at sequels in the form of the Battle Royale 2 film, and Blitz Royale really didn't work.
and yes, I am in fact a 12 year old girl for liking the Hunger Games. (the drawn out melodrama of Mockingjay Part 1 notwithstanding).
I have no doubt that they would be able to wring more angst from a new set of kids killing each other in each subsequent film if they did do prequels, but that would entirely Miss the Point of the series.
While it might be neat to see how Haymitch won his Quarter Quell, and ended up an alcoholic, would there really be an overarching point to seeing kids kill each other within this system given that Hunger Games was about the historical cycle of oppression and revolution (and what that really means)? It would turn the series into a repetitive splatterfest like Friday the 13th (which isn't a bad thing as tingly escapism goes, but I think Hunger Games is better than that, particularly as Young Adult Fiction).
If they did sequels, the point of the ambiguous ending for Mockingjay was whether or not they would repeat the same mistakes once Katniss walks away from it all. Let the viewer/reader decide for themselves whether or not they resume the Hunger Games eventually. Not make it another pointless foregone conclusion.
I really enjoyed the Battle Royale manga, novel and movie, but the attempts at sequels in the form of the Battle Royale 2 film, and Blitz Royale really didn't work.
and yes, I am in fact a 12 year old girl for liking the Hunger Games. (the drawn out melodrama of Mockingjay Part 1 notwithstanding).
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