Last Updated on April 13, 2017 by Marie Bautista
On Friday, Amazon released a report that the Hunger Games Trilogy have knocked out the Harry Potter series as Amazon’s top-selling books of all time. What is stupefying (I still love you more, Harry Potter, I swear)is that it only took Hunger Games four years to topple the Harry Potter series. The Hunger Games books are consistently in the top ten list in print and Kindle sales.
Anyway, call it a Hunger Games weekend. With the DVD coming out on August 18, 2012 and with the book toppling my much more loved Harry Potter (come and relive the magical experience at Pottermore), the following are interesting facts about the book, the movie and its stars!!!
1. Who gave Katniss her Mockingjay pin?
In the novel, Madge, the District 12 mayor’s daughter, gave Katniss the pin. In the movie, it was Prim, Katniss’ younger sister, who gave her the pin.
(My daughters wanted to have this pin badly. I got them here).
2. I didn’t know Gale is Miley Cyrus’ fiance!!!
Miley and Liam Hemsworth (Gale in the Hunger Games) met on the set of Nicholas’ Spark’s “The Last Song.”
3.Background Story.
The Hunger Games was inspired in part by Suzanne Collins’ childhood experience of watching on tv and being greatly affected with the Vietnam war and the Greek myth of Theseus. However, Katniss’ story came to be when the author was doing some late night channel surfing and was switching between reality tv shows and the Iraq war coverage. 
4. Jennifer Lawrence took three days to say yes, she will be Katniss.
5. Peeta loves Katniss?
Peeta must have loved Katniss way before they were together as tributes of District 12. Peeta, who was the District 12 baker’s son, burned a loaf of bread intentionally, and threw it at Katniss, who was at her wit’s ends on what to feed her hungry family.
6. Who did not covet the Katniss role???
Around 30 actresses aged 14 to 24 have auditioned for Hunger Games’ Katniss Everdeen (and nope, thank God, Kristen Stewart is not among them), including Chloe Grace Moretz,Abigail Breslin and Emma Roberts. Winter Bone Oscar nominee Jennifer Lawrence won the part and was described to be “an amazing Katniss. Katniss requires a young actress with strength, depth, complexity, tenderness and power.”
7. President Snow smells like…
I barely remember seeing President Snow in the movie, except maybe that part where he was tending on his roses. In the book, this vile creature would be described as reeking of rose scent and blood. (that blood part, you would really like to know).
8. District 1 & 2 trains blood-thirsty tributes!!!
District 1 and 2 train career tributes who are skilled warriors whose whole lives were dedicated to training and becoming the winning tributes.
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You know how I found THG? I was in the library & I picked it up on a whim and read the blurb inside the cover.
I was immediately intrigued by it & brought it home. I swear I stayed up all night reading, then I got online and got the e book for book 2 and began reading it on the spot at my computer!
This was a few years ago. Back in 2006 or 2007.
I got this big bag of THG books from Scholastic around the time the movie came out and it was so cool to read all about the movie, characters, etc.
Did you like the movie, read any of the books? How about your kids?
I read all the Hunger Games books. I love Katniss in the three books. Some commented that Katniss was too spaced out in the last book, but I guess that is a natural reaction of somebody who has been in a war! Others say that they preferred Gale! Who did you like for Katniss? Peeta was ok for me…
Omg I could talk about the hunger games all day lol. I went to see the movie and then immediate went to get the first book. The first one was a bit hard to get through after seeing the movie. I already knew what to expect. But the other to I read in a week. I think we will see (or smell) more of snow in the next three movies! I'm so happy they are splitting mockingjay into two movies. I'm so excited.
Oh, I didn't know they will be splitting it into two!Who is playing Finnick, btw? And oh, did you like Gale or Peeta for Katniss?
Sam Claflin (http://insidemovies.ew.com/2012/08/22/hunger-games-catching-fire-finnick-sam-claflin/)
I love Katniss and Peeta in the book. But I liked idea Gale and Katniss in the movie.
I finished reading the entire trilogy in less than a week. Haha. I got so hungry with it. And I must say, I'm as much thankful as you are that Kristen Stewart didn't audition for the role (although, it's not like she's going to get the part if she did). Haha.
And for the record: I LOVE PEETA MELLARK! It's hard not to love him.