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Written by April Yorke   
Thursday, 12 April 2012 08:23

Catching FireReally? Do we need to go through this again? Seems Lionsgate is going all Twilight on The Hunger Games, bringing in a new director for the second installment.

Okay, this was probably always going to piss me off, given my stated preference for Gary Ross (btw, I rewatched Seabiscuit the other day, and it was as great as I remembered it. Plus now I feel like I understand Luck a little better). And, if we're being honest, we all know the reason why: $$$.

So while some are content to speculate about who might assume the chair, I prefer to sit and mourn the squandering of a great director, shake my head at Lionsgate's decision to value money over quality, and question the validity of the argument that another director could have made a movie that hewed closer to the book's violence and gore and still brought it in at PG-13. Think it through.

Mourning over! Here's 3 director suggestions:

  1. Alfonso Cuarón, for all the reasons stated in that Breaking Dawn post linked above.
  2. Danny Boyle. 28 Days Later proved he's a deft touch for the thrills, violence, and gore of the Quarter Quell, but it's really the equally joyous and terrifying Slumdog Millionaire that suggests he can bring the entirety of Panem into focus the way Suzanne Collins does in Catching Fire. 
  3. Edgar Wright. True, we've never seen him handle anything this serious or heavy, but we have seen the amazing kinetic wonderland that was his Scott Pilgrim adaptation, and you know what that confirmed? That man is a genius. He gets it better than anyone. Imagine what he could do with a sizable budget!

Also, allow me to preemptively suggest Alex Proyas for The Mockingjay. Knowing was a bust, but I'd love to see what the man behind The Crow and Dark City would do if he got his hands on -- spoiler alert -- District 13. And now that I've typed that, it really makes me wonder what District 9 director Neill Blomkamp is up to these days. Neill, where ya been? You could totally rock The Mockingjay!

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April Yorke is a (Cult)ure Magazine contributor since Wednesday, 07 January 2009.

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