Elizabeth Banks’ character Effie Trinket will have more screen time in “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1” than she appeared in the novels.
During an interview with MTV News, Banks talked about the production adding more to her storyline. Fans will get to see how Effie transitions from her Capitol lifestyle to living in District 13 with the rebels.
The actress told MTV she was incredibly sad she wasn’t going to be able to play Effie anymore. Banks admitted she “cried her eyes out” when filming for the final two “Hunger Games” films has wrapped. Check out Banks’ full interview with MTV in the video below.
“Mockingjay” director Francis Lawrence recently spoke to Entertainment Weekly about the changes made to the plot in the process of adapting the novel to fulfill their onscreen format.
Lawrence explained the production’s goal wasn’t to rewrite the story in order to make sense on film. The director claimed the writers focused on the opportunities they had to show what was going on outside of Katniss Everdeen’s perspective.
“Instead of changing the plot and changing characters what we did was have the opportunity to show scenes that could have been happening at different times in the book,” Lawrence told EW.
“For us it’s world expansion instead of changing things. I think it’s exciting for the fan to see certain things. So we’ve been able to open the world up in this and see some new places. We get to see some new districts this time and the scope gets quite large.”
Though the final two films will have serious undertones, Lawrence claimed their will bits of humor and action to balance out the somberness of what is occurring in Panem.
“There’s definitely some battles. There’s some of the first glimpses of real war in this movie. And the scale gets quite big,” he reveals. “There’s an atonal shift from some of the last movies, but they’re still very emotional, very sweeping, [on a] grand scale with some levity and humor.”
“The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1” will be released to theaters on Nov. 21.
