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If Gary Ross Didn’t Direct Hunger Games It Might Look Like This

9 Comments September 6, 2012 by Will Filed Under: Hunger Games Trailer

Director Kevin Tancharoen submitted this proposal for his vision of Panem in the leadup to the choice of director Gary Ross. I’m glad they went with Gary Ross, but it’s an interesting look at another way to portray the book on-screen.

Peter: It seems like a lot of upcoming directors are now putting together these video reels for their studio pitches. When did this start, and when did you discover this practice?

Kevin: The idea of a “pitch reel” has been around for awhile and is very common practice for any director. Trying to pitch a vision to a room full of people is always very difficult verbally. In the past two years, the pitch reel has significantly become more demanding since technology allows for people to make mini movies in their own homes. It’s almost expected for a director to show some visual materials, but the need to impress has become elevated. At first, it was just some concept art, some storyboards and possibly a treatment. Then the rip-o-matic (a visual reel using clips from other movies to portray a visual style) became really popular. I even know some directors who do a full animatic at their expense just to take into a meeting.

[Slashfilm]

Category: Hunger Games Trailer

purple_tiger_13

i see harry potter…. #^__^# hehehehe
Lily Rose

I guess I’m the wrong person to comment on this as how I’m not a fan of certain decisions made by Gary Ross, but one of my complaints was that the feel wasn’t dark and gritty enough. The in depth understanding of their everyday lives would be hard to transfer into a movie, so the environment has to do it and it just didn’t do it for me.

I have to say I prefer this gritty feel vs the movie. Although what the heck was Kevin Tancharoen thinking with Haymitch, Cinna, and Peeta? Katniss, Primrose, Gale, and Effie, however, were great ideas. And I had to laugh at the rue pick. Is she the go-to girl?
jean logan

i read the books years ago so i kinda had high expectations for the movie, but i didn’t really enjoy the movie much i think they changed too many things around and spent to much of the time on the capital i know in the book the capitals meant to be big and flashy but i don’t know i don’t think their was enough dark feel and like tension in the arena scenes. i like this trailer more than gary’s to be honest its more dark and gritty
thependragons<3

I quite like this one. It’s more darker and to me I would of perfered to hear Katniss narate the movie, like in this trailer. But I do like the Gary Ross version
Katniss

I must say I am glad they deiceded to use Gary’s version because:
1) the actors look way better
2) it is not to bloody and gorey making it appropriet for teens and preteens
3) I think it matches the book way better than kevin’s
So may the odds be ever in Gary’s favor!!

http://twitter.com/smnhgfan Samara

I agree!
Silence’s Voice

I agree with you. I totally loved the way in which the movie was done in a realistic way, noy trying to make it any darker or “cooler” than it would actually be. It shows it as it is, and you have to see by yourself that that world is not good enough. No stupid special effects are needed, in my opinion. I hate movies that go “over the top”. The Hunger Games didn’t, and that’s why it’s definetly one of my favourite films, and I wasn’t decieved by the adaptation from the book. Nothing can ever be perfect, but it had a really good focus, in my opinion, just as I wished it to have.

:D

gary ross stayed true to the book.
;zidog;zd

this is so much better than gary ross’s version. in my opinion the movie really sucked ;p it wasn’t as dark as the books and it just destroyed everything

If Gary Ross Didn’t Direct Hunger Games It Might Look Like This

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