'Hunger Games Mockingjay' Movie News: Jennifer Lawrence Set For Biggest Test As Katniss In New Movie, Will Include Dealing With Loss Of Friends Like Peeta [VIDEO]
With the next Hunger Games movie being the first part in the two part finale, it would seem that there is still a lot of Katniss left to dive into and with the character dealing with the most she has ever had to deal with, this could mean a lot of work for Jennifer Lawrence.
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The Guardian wrote on Friday that the next entry, Mockingjay Part 1, would have to be some of the best work by Lawrence yet. The source material, especially early on, would require the Oscar winner to give her best performance yet within this series.
According to the site, while parts of Mockingjay do at least feature some rather shoehorned-in examples of Arena-style weaponry and traps as Everdeen mounts a last-ditch attack on the Capitol, the first few chapters are mostly about our heroine struggling to cope with the psychologically tortuous fallout from her two previous brushes with death and destruction.
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This is not exactly territory designed to get pulses racing and fingers dipping into popcorn buckets, though fortunately it is where Lawrence often does her very best work.
It seems like a similar situation to the first part of the Harry Potter finale, which had the main trio going through the countryside and searching for items rather than having a big fight, which they saved for the last movie. It worked out well for that franchise and with the star power of Lawrence, it should be ok for the Hunger Games.
Mockingjay Part 1 is directed by Francis Lawrence and hits theaters on November 21.