" What I realized in retrospect — and after hear all the reactions and feel the variety of anger of fans , critic , and people at the split — is that I actualise it was frustrating . "
DirectorFrancis Lawrencerealized the fans had every right to have mixed feelings over the finalHunger Gamesbook being divided into two different movies.
Francis directed the film adaptations of Suzanne Collins' science fiction dystopian novels,Catching FireandMockingjay, the second and third novels. Gary Ross directed the first adaptation.
The 52-year-old filmmaker returned to direct the upcoming origin story,The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes,and now he’s addressing history with the film franchise.
In a newPeopleinterview, Francis admitted he regrets splitting the final book intoMockingjay - Part 1(2014)andMockingjay - Part 2(2015),which is quite validating for the fandom.
“I totally regret it. I totally do,” Francis said. “I’m not sure everybody does, but I definitely do.” He recognized that while the trilogy’s final novel was robust enough to be two halves with their “own separate dramatic questions” and arcs, he understands why fans were angry about the delay between the films' releases.
“What I realized in retrospect — and after hearing all the reactions and feeling the kind of wrath of fans, critics, and people at the split — is that I realized it was frustrating,” he added. “And I can understand it.”
“In truth, we got more on the screen out of the book than we would’ve in any of the other movies because you’re getting close to four hours of screen time for the final book,” Francis expressed. “But, I see and understand how it frustrated people.”
And that’s true. The fans, critics, and everyone involved had mixed feelings aboutMockingjaybeing spread out into two movies. Some people definitely weren’t a fan of the split:
Always feel like they were essay to copy the Harry Potter rule at the time . Twilight and Hunger Games both did it and it feel unneeded
Yeah because Deathly Hallows was the only one that excuse that . Fuckin Twilight and Hunger Games did n’t .
the first mockingjay was boring 😭 😭
Many long standing dealership did this blunder after copying Harry Potter deathly core out part 1 and 2 rent
Yeah cus it was dread being spitted up ! Should have been 1 big move
And other folks were surprisingly cool with it:
I disagree , if they forced the whole story into 1 movie , they wo n’t be able to tell apart most of the Mockingjay . They hear their best to stay true with the Bible , even when we suffer our Plutarch ( rive Philip Seymour Hoffman ) they did n’t stray too far from the book
I really loved part one tbhpic.twitter.com/bpNKogPoan
I ’m glad they did or else they would ’ve trim out a bunch from the books . They tried their in effect to stay close
I really sense like I ’m hunky-dory with how it was split . But just opine what a masterpiece it would ’ve been if both moving picture were unite . Then again … as at the prison term it come out , 3 to 4 hr movies were n’t really a thing so some in force panorama would ’ve been cut out and that ’s a NO
