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Real Or Not Real?

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire Producers Tell Us All To Calm Down About Non-Existent Casting

by Jill Pantozzi | 11:49 am, June 7th, 2012


The producers of The Hunger Games: Catching Fire would like us all to take a deep breathe and calm the hell down. At least when it comes to these casting “announcements” we’ve been seeing. You can still be totally out of your mind excited for the movie itself. 

First, Robert Pattinson was rumored to be taking on the role of Finnick Odair in The Hunger Games sequel. Well, that was news to him. He even had to check in with his agent to make sure it wasn’t true. Then John Carter’s Taylor Kitsch caught the rumor bug. That was also proven false.

Then there was the news that actors Armi Hammer and Garrett Hedlund were on the “short list” for the same role. And that was supposed to be official.

Yadda, yadda, yadda, you’re all wrong says producer Nina Jacobson. “So not true,” were apparently her real words.

She went on to tell 24 Frames, “That’s the thing that’s crazy — people are like way ahead of where we are. We’ve not narrowed things down by any means. It’s funny to see how things can take on a life of their own.”

So what about all those suggestions from fans, both of the actors above and others like The Cabin in the Woods/Grey’s Anatomy’s Jesse Williams and my own personal campaign for Justin Hartley from Smallville?

“It means something that people can see [an actor] in that light, so you know [the actor] will be accepted by a lot of people, on the one hand,” said Jacobson. “On the other hand, you have to kind of ignore it. You have to just sort of act like you’re sitting in a room and you want to just pick the person who gives the best audition and looks and feels most like the part.”

Seriously though, has a fan campaign to get a certain actor cast ever worked?

(via /Film)

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  • http://twitter.com/JT_Dani Jessica

    I think the closest that’s come to a fan castin actually being used is Patrick Stewart as Charles Xaiver . . .  but it’s possible it’s just more incidental.

  • JM Z

    Did anyone confirm that they’re only looking for Caucasian males between late twenties and early thirties? If they actually are doing colorblind casting that would make feel so much better.

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  • Anonymous

    “Seriously though, has a fan campaign to get a certain actor cast ever worked?”

    Peter Cullen as Optimus Prime leaps to mind.  Everything else is just great minds thinking alike.

  • Anonymous

    Anyone else think that Alex Pettyfer is pretty near to perfect for Finnick, just look at his main iMDB picture…it’s Finnick!

  • http://twitter.com/arrowe77 Alexandre Rowe

    I remember a lot of polls on fansite asking for Christian Bale for Batman.

  • http://twitter.com/regretfuljones regretfuljones

    It wasn’t necessarily a fan campaign, but a case of ‘everyone in the world thinks he was the model for the role’ was Clark Gable as Rhett Butler. He was under contract with a different studio, and also had personal reservations about not living up to the public’s expectations. He had to be convinced to take it, even after all the studio negotiating.

  • Anonymous

    I will choose to lose my mind on my own schedule, thank you.  It is my right as a fan of the series, as it is the right of those in charge to do as they see fit.  The directors and producers are not the boss of me.  CTFD for the casting and let us handle it; we’re the pros?

    I do not think so.

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