It has become a trend with recent book adaptations to split the final book in a series into two movies, but the question is always posed, where will the split occur and will it hurt the story at all?

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Entertainment Weekly sat down with Hunger Games: Mockingjay director Francis Lawrence on Monday and discussed how the movie would tie into the last one.

"There's definitely some battles. There's some of the first glimpses of real war in this movie. And the scale gets quite big," Lawrence said. "There's an atonal shift from some of the last movies, but they're still very emotional, very sweeping, [on a] grand scale with some levity and humor."

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He also talked about where Katniss would be in this movie and how she will be affected by the events of Catching Fire.

"Having gone through the games one more time and having lost Peeta and having been run through the wringer, she's even more damaged," Lawrence said. "So you find her in a more agitated place. She's distraught, confused, angry."

Lawrence also talked about the changing world that the characters are seeing and how fans will see the massive switch that happens in the movie.

"Instead of changing the plot and changing characters what we did was have the opportunity to show scenes that could have been happening at different times in the book," Lawrence said.

"For us it's world expansion instead of changing things. I think it's exciting for the fan to see certain things. So we've been able to open the world up in this and see some new places. We get to see some new districts this time and the scope gets quite large."

While Lawrence won't pinpoint the divide of the books, he did say that both pose different and unique stories.

"Those objectives became the motives for us," Lawrence explained.

"This is where the meaning of the entire series comes into play. The answer to why these books exist exists in Mockingjay, and that's really been exciting to me. That's been kind of what I've hung on to through these stories."

Hunger Games: Mockingjay is set to open in theaters on November 21.

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