Since our first official look at “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire” came out this week we’ve had several tidbits about the film cross our path, among them a pair of new pictures and confirmation from director Francis Lawrence of three characters who didn’t make the jump from page to screen.
So who got the axe? (Or spear, à la Rue… oh, sorry, too soon?) And what was that about new pictures? Read more…
“Hunger Games” fans, we have our Finnick Odair! After names like Taylor Kitsch, Chris Hemsworth, and Jesse Williams were tossed around, the producers eventually decided the token dreamboat of “Catching Fire” will be played by relative unknown Sam Claflin, So let’s find out a little more about the guy … and ogle his dreamboat status, of course…
Did you hear that? That noise? That’s the sound of racist Hunger Games fans losing their racist minds over the rumor that actor Jesse Williams (“Grey’s Anatomy”) is being considered for the role of Finnick Odair, one of the most popular characters in the second and third books in the Suzanne Collins’ trilogy. (And I was just getting used to the quiet following the Rue and Thresh ridiculous racist hullabaloo…) Williams, you see, is half-black. “Um, Finnick is supposed to be Caucasian,” wrote more than a few disgruntled fans of the series on various message boards online. A man of color can’t possibly play the dashing Finnick!
Hell. Yes. He. Can. Keep reading »
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