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Mockingjay Filming
Stef Dawson (our Annie Cresta) posted a lovely photo of herself with Suzanne Collins to her instagram and whosay today with the caption:
The Beautiful and Incredible Suzanne Collins and I. Forever grateful to her for Annie & touching lives with stories that matter. Love her X
We do too, Stef! We're SO happy that you're our Annie and you totally GET IT!
The bigger question here is: ARE THEY ON SET????
On Location Vacations has just posted a batch of photos from The Hunger Games: Mockingjay set being constructed at a mill site, located off of Experiment Street in Griffin, GA.
The latest photos show a “wall” of containers being built for a green screens, “smoke damage” has been added to the buildings, which are now painted gray, and a chunk of foam facade with the words “Of Justice” carved into it. The ruins of the Justice Building in District 12? Or District 13 where they find the red and pink roses and shoot the propos?
In addition to what they’ve added, they’ve torn down one of the original buildings and moved a lot of rubble around so there is now a big smoke stack exposed. The set is changing a lot day-to-day so it seems like they are gearing up to begin filming there soon and, given on all of the work they’ve done, OLV anticipates they spend at least a few days there.
Naltalie Dormer (cressida) was on VH1's Big Morning Buzz Live this morning promoting her new movie, The Counselor, and she spilled some great info - and some lies - about Mockingjay 1 & 2. Read on to hear what she has to say about Cressida's look and how they departed from the book.
“I get to wear pants and flat shoes!” she laughed. “No, it’s just fun to be, you know, she’s a serious professional whose joined the rebellion cause. Cressida is meant to be an incredibly talented documentary film director who was following Katniss around. I’m just really excited about her professional skill; she’s joined the rebellion out of a place called conviction, which is very interesting to me.”
Another interesting thing about Cressida is her appearance. When Katniss first meets the filmmaker she’s described as having “a shaved head tattooed with green vines.”
Dormer might have showed up on Big Morning Buzz Live with flowing blonde locks, but we had to ask if she was pulling a “Karen Gillan” on us. At Comic-Con, Gillan stunned everyone when she revealed that her hair was a wig and that she had actually shaved her long red hair to play Nebula in Guardians of the Galaxy.
Dormer revealed, “I haven’t shaved all my head of hair off, no.” However, before fans get in a tizzy, she did remark that her look is “definitely an interesting interpretation of the reference in the book. I would like to think that people won’t be disappointed with the choices that we made.”
Julianne Moore by Dan MacMedan/USA Today
Julianne Moore is busy promoting he new movie, Carrie and - lucky for us - that provides reporters with lots of opportunities to ask her questions about the Mockingjay films. Moore spoke with USA Today about taking on the role of Coin and how impressed she was with The Hunger Games books.
From USA Today:
Next, she's headed to the much-watched set of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay to take on the popular franchise's steely rebellion leader, President Alma Coin.
Moore says she was drawn to the part after reading the dystopian series. "My son read them when they first came out ... and then my daughter a few years ago started reading The Hunger Games. We were on vacation and I didn't bring a book to read, and she went and caught up with her brother to play ping-pong. I picked up her book and read it that afternoon, and then downloaded the other two on my iPad and tore through them."
Moore praises author Suzanne Collins' deft navigation of strong political themes. "They're books about war but with adolescent overtones," she says. "It's about, what is totalitarianism, what is revolution? How do people compromise, how do we repeat our mistakes? It's heartbreaking. I was really impressed by the books, so I'm delighted to be doing it."
The actress has completed makeup tests to play the silver-haired Coin and is heading to the Georgia set to begin filming soon. She says the Mockingjay team is trying to give fans the Coin they've imagined from the text. "I think everybody tries very hard to honor the book because there's so many people who have invested themselves in it," she says. Mockingjay, the Hunger Games trilogy's final book, will be split into two separate movies.
Read more about Moore at USA Today.
The Upson Post has some great new shots of the Mockingjay location shoot at Martha Mills in Thomaston, GA on their Facebook page. It definitely looks like a battle scene in District 8 is being filmed. The Upson Post said that "impressive, dark smoke rose above the shooting location several different times throughout the day today... See more here
We've got a few new photos from the set of Mockingjay in Atlanta. Liam Hemsworth was spotted on set yesterday. Looking pretty buff there, Gale!
Via QuarterQuell.org
Thanks to our friends at Quarter Quell, we've got a peek at the Mockingjay production filming at the Pullman Yard today in Atlanta.
Rooftop battle scene in District 8?
The Upson Post, a "soon-to-launch" local newspaper from Thomaston, GA has posted some production photos of what they say is set-up for Mockingjay Part 1 to their facebook page. The photos were snapped at Martha Mills in Thomaston, a textile mill that was once one of the world's largest. Could this be a set-up for the battle in District 8?
New set photos of Jennifer Lawrence and Liam Hemsworth have surfaced courtesy of Screen Crush. Check out Katniss and Gale on set!
The first images of Jennifer Lawrence in costume as Katniss on the Atlanta Mockingjay set have just hit the web. Thanks to our friends at QuarterQuell.org here's your peek at Katniss. Looks like the braid is long gone!
The first shot of Julianne Moore as President Alma Coin in Atlanta, courtesy of the Daily Mail:
Source: Daily Mail
Source: Daily Mail
