{"id":19890,"date":"2012-04-20T07:02:54","date_gmt":"2012-04-20T12:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=19890"},"modified":"2012-04-20T07:02:54","modified_gmt":"2012-04-20T12:02:54","slug":"francis-lawrence-chosen-for-hunger-games-sequel-catching-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2012\/04\/20\/francis-lawrence-chosen-for-hunger-games-sequel-catching-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Francis Lawrence Chosen For HUNGER GAMES Sequel CATCHING FIRE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/FrancisLawrence.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19892\" title=\"FrancisLawrence\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/FrancisLawrence.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"275\" \/><\/a>Lionsgate has wasted no time in lining up a replacement director for their <strong>Hunger Games<\/strong> sequel <strong>Catching Fire<\/strong> following the resignation of franchise-launcher Gary Ross <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2012\/04\/11\/ross-officially-off-hunger-games-sequel\/\" target=\"_blank\">last week<\/a>. The studio has chosen <strong>Water For Elephants<\/strong> helmer Francis Lawrence to take the reins of their hit series of teen-lit adaptions.<\/p>\n<p>Reportedly Lawrence beat out Moneyball director Bennett Miller who wanted to push back the studio&#8217;s desired production start date in August in order to have more prep time. The studio is loathed to do that as <strong>Hunger Games<\/strong> star Jennifer Lawrence is committed to Twentieth Century Fox&#8217;s <strong>X-Men: First Class<\/strong> sequel that is scheduled to begin production in January. The studio is anxious to capitalize on the box office success of <strong>Hunger Games<\/strong> by getting the sequel into theaters as quickly as possible and have already announced a November 22, 2013 release date.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to<strong> Water For Elephants<\/strong>, Lawrence has experience with genre films having helmed the Will Smith action-flick <strong>I Am Legend<\/strong> and the comic book adaption <strong>Constantine<\/strong>. I don&#8217;t think there is anything particularly special about any of those films that I could attribute to Lawrence&#8217;s direction, but he seems like a safe, journeyman choice for a studio looking to crank out product.<\/p>\n<p>Although no deal has been finalized I would expect it to come together fairly quickly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">The studio has found their director for the next installment in the popular franchise.<\/div>\n<p> <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2012\/04\/20\/francis-lawrence-chosen-for-hunger-games-sequel-catching-fire\/\" title=\"Francis Lawrence Chosen For HUNGER GAMES Sequel CATCHING FIRE\">[click for more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[5023,5117,4731],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19890","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-catching-fire","8":"tag-frances-lawrence","9":"tag-the-hunger-games"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19890\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19890"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=19890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}