As The Day Today’s Chris Morris might put it, “That’s it! It’s war!” The conflict between the despotic, resource-rich and couture-obsessed Capitol and the defiant Districts is coming to a violent head in the latest trailer for The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1. Check it out below.
Here, Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) has been recruited to lead the rebel forces against those of President Snow, working alongside the likes of Gale (Liam Hemsworth), Haymitch (Woody Harrelson), Beetee (Jeffrey Wright), Plutarch Heavensbee (Philip Seymour Hoffman, in what will be one of his final performances) and President Alma Coin (Julianne Moore). Katniss has now been brought to District 13, long thought destroyed and written out of Panem history but, it emerges, a power to be reckoned with.
But even as the Districts start to make progress against the Capitol’s armies, Snow delivers a nasty propaganda surprise: Peeta (Josh Hutcherson) is alive and apparently aligned with the Capitol in asking the rebels to stop fighting. Naturally, Katniss wants to rescue her friend – but at what cost? And can she really rely on her new allies?
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With Francis Lawrence once more calling the shots from a script that has seen work by Danny Strong and Peter Craig adapting the third of Suzanne Collins’ novels, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 hits UK cinemas on November 20, with Part 2 due on November 20 next year.