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THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY Part 2 Final Victory

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 brings the global motion picture phenomenon to its thrilling and emotionally powerful last chapter as the stakes for Katniss Everdeen escalate from surviving the most deadly games ever devised to setting the course of the future.

Maiden Vs Giant The Final Battle

The story picks up with Katniss (Jennifer Lawrence) back in the bunkers of District 13, still unable to emotionally reach a brainwashed Peeta as she watches the nation of Panem sliding into full-scale apocalyptic war. Though Katniss has warily accepted her role as the Mockingjay symbol of the rebellion, she can see that it is going take more than symbolism to turn the tide against the Capitol. Truly on fire now, she resolves to take action. Joining with Gale(Liam Hemsworth), an unpredictable Peeta(Josh Hutcherson), Finnick (Sam Claflin), and the so-called “Squad 451,” she sets out for the once-glittering Capitol – transformed into a city of mayhem under attack by both rebels and peacekeepers – with a covert mission to assassinate President Snow. Snow still believes he’s playing an obsessive game to outwit and destroy Katniss, but Katniss is no longer anyone’s pawn, and to her, this is no contest. It is a battle for everything she has come to believe in and the people she loves. It is a battle for the final hope of a life of peace.

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 builds on the momentum of each previous chapter in the blockbuster series to reach a fever pitch of both emotion and action, bringing Katniss full circle from the dismayed girl caught in a dystopian nightmare to leading the charge to remake her nation.

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, rejoins Katniss as a victor of the Hunger Games, but one who is given zero chance to enjoy her promised rewards or to recover from the physical and mental toll of the arena. Instead, haunted by memories and craving her independence, she is compelled into a deceptive “Victor’s Tour” and a public engagement to Peeta. Then she’s told she must do the unthinkable: re-enter the Hunger Games arena in the lauded Quarter Quell games, which President Snow declares will be the ultimate battle between former victors – a move aimed directly at Katniss. The stakes grow higher as Katniss now fights as much for the lives of her friends and family as her own survival. In the jungle-themed arena, Katniss makes vital new alliances, even as she becomes the unwitting idol of a rapidly spreading rebellion against the Capitol.

Now, in the final chapter of The Hunger Games, with all the Districts united against the Capitol for the first time, tomorrow itself is on the line. For Katniss to truly be herself, she realizes she must now fully take on the indomitable Mockingjay spirit in a last stand to set things right.

Awakening of Revolutionary Goddess

In four increasingly complex film performances, Academy Award® winner Jennifer Lawrence has taken Katniss Everdeen through a pendulum’s worth of changes. She has metamorphosed from a disarmed girl trying to save herself and then her family to a deeply reluctant rebel hero and now finally, to a sharply-honed, fiercely determined leader determined to shatter a ruthless society for the good of all. Lawrence says she has enjoyed growing with the ever-evolving yet steadfastly true-to-herself character and is thrilled to bring Katniss to her apex in Mockingjay – Part 2.

Lawrence commented that this is the chapter when Katniss really starts to believe in the impact that she can have. She’s always been so reluctant and has always found herself in situations where all she can do is try to survive, but now she’s turning the tables. she excited for her to finally take her place as a leader. At the end of Mockingjay – Part 1, she was kind of numb; and genuinely unsure if she wanted to go on. In Mockingjay – Part 2 she starts seeing the bigger picture. She’s looking beyond her own personal losses and gains to focus on making a better future.

Josh Hutcherson, who as Peeta has also gone through dizzying changes from a baker’s son to Katniss’ closest ally to a tormented instrument of the Capitol, says of Katniss’s journey: “What was a story about a girl who wants to protect her family and survive has now become the story of a girl who creates what once seemed an impossible uprising. It’s the final push that culminates in a new world.”

Yet even as she turns towards the future, the past weighs on Katniss. A constant reminder of the high costs of her journey is there in Peeta’s continuing inability to see Katniss for who she really is – and still harboring the relentlessly violent thoughts implanted by the Capitol towards her. Observes Jennifer Lawrence, somebody being brainwashed to think that you’re an evil mutt is a hell of a strain to put on a relationship. They have to start over.

Nina Jacobson notes that no matter what terrifying things Peeta says or does, Katniss cannot deny her urge to protect him – nor her hope to reconnect with him. She has her moments with Gale in this film, but even he can see through her. Her heart is stuck on Peeta. She can’t let him go, even now, and that’s pretty poignant.

Spectacular Capitol The Real French Scene

Mockingjay – Part 2 unveils the Capitol as it has never been seen before in The Hunger Games franchise – entering the city’s once lavishly glittering streets amid the erupting chaos of wartime. The whole metropolis transforms into an arena more real than any before as Snow attacks Katniss and the Squad 451 in some of his most epic and creative ways yet. The result as Jennifer Lawrence says is “sets that are absolutely insane. The spectacle of this film is really incredible.”

In this final movie, the epic scale of Katniss’s return to the streets of the Capitol which has great power to it. Francis has brought to life the Capitol sequences in a way that is truly something, and will be incredibly exciting in the immersive experience of IMAX®. It’s everything that you hope to accomplish on a big screen – something that is emotionally and thematically powerful, but also cinematically enormous.

To fully bring the Capitol to life in a new way, they would have to look beyond Atlanta, home to much of the production. They took advantage of historic and futurist locations in France and Germany that could be found nowhere else.

They wanted to keep the idea of the Brutalist/Classical architecture that makes the Capitol so imposing but shooting at real locations allowed us to do that in a more immersive way. Phil found some amazing places in Paris and Berlin that were a phenomenal match with the story

Shooting the Capitol scenes in Europe allowed us all the size and scale that we envisioned. The team was able to create a look that is both very layered and gigantic.

Just outside Paris, near Versailles, the production set up camp at Château de Voisins, a stunningly aristocratic 1903 estate, which stands in for portions of President Snow’s mansion. The Chateau served as home to some of the film’s most vital scenes, including a major turning point involving a meeting of former Hunger Games’ victors.

One of the most remarkable sets in France was created from the wildly post-modern apartment buildings in Noisy-Le-Grand known as “L’espace Abraxas.” Built in the 50s, 60s and 70s, these massive, square, stone structures surrounded by pillars, plazas and triumphal arches hearken back to the Greek Empire but, at the same time, they also nod to a future of immaculately planned cities.

Elevation The Action To The Very End

With Squad 451 headed to the Capitol determined to stop President Snow for good, Mockingjay – Part 2 brings Katniss into epic, full-scale action on a level beyond the cleverly manufactured sieges of the Hunger Games arenas seen in the first two Hunger Games films or the early rumblings of war in Mockingjay – Part 1.

“In Mockingjay – Part 2, the action is based in reality as Katniss and her team move to the Capitol,” stunt coordinator Sam Hargrave says. “Because of the intense action, it required a lot more out of all of our actors. It’s chaos, so they had to be really ‘on it’ physically.”

Fortunately, by the time cameras rolled on Mockingjay – Part 2, Jennifer Lawrence had become highly skilled in the ancient art of the bow and arrow, Katniss’ iconic weaponry. “This character has become such a part of Jennifer that our training process was much narrower,” Hargrave comments. “She knew what was expected of her, and whatever we asked of her she was gung-ho to try it.”

Mockingjay – Part 2 also gave Liam Hemsworth more of an opportunity to show off his capabilities as an action star. “Liam is a very talented guy. He kickboxes and trains on his own so he brought in a lot of physical assets before we even began the specific training,” Hargraves observes.

Perhaps the most ambitious action sequence of the entire franchise is the film’s harrowing battle against the gnashing teeth and the talons of the supernaturally fast lizard mutts in the claustrophobic sewer tunnels.

“The whole scene was very complicated, so we had to storyboard it all and get all the fight choreography established long before we went in,” explains Francis Lawrence. “There was a lot of technical difficulty – we were dealing with real fire and real water – and it was quite honestly a miserable set for the actors and crew. But it’s a scene I’m really proud of. It’s a very cool sequence.”

SYNOPSIS

The blockbuster Hunger Games franchise has taken audiences by storm around the world, grossing more than $2.2 billion at the global box office. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 now brings the franchise to its powerful final chapter in which Katniss Everdeen [Jennifer Lawrence] realizes the stakes are no longer just for survival – they are for the future.

With the nation of Panem in a full scale war, Katniss confronts President Snow [Donald Sutherland] in the final showdown. Teamed with a group of her closest friends – including Gale [Liam Hemsworth], Finnick [Sam Claflin] and Peeta [Josh Hutcherson] – Katniss goes off on a mission with the unit from District 13 as they risk their lives to liberate the citizens of Panem, and stage an assassination attempt on President Snow who has become increasingly obsessed with destroying her. The mortal traps, enemies, and moral choices that await Katniss will challenge her more than any arena she faced in The Hunger Games.

THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY Part 2