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“Looking back and hearing all the reactions and feeling the anger of the fans and the critics and the people involved in the split, I realized that I realized it was upsetting to me,” Lawrence says. “And I can understand that.”
“In a TV episode, if you have a cliffhanger, you have to wait a week, or you can just binge it and then see the next episode. But making people wait a year, I think it seemed disingenuous, even though it wasn’t,” he adds. “Our intention was not to be insincere.”
Lawrence notes that, on the other hand, they were able to adapt more of the book into two films.
“In truth, we got more out of the book on screen than we could have gotten in any other film, because the final version of the book is close to four hours of screen time. But,” he says, “I can see and understand how it upsets people.”
Harry Potter started this trend by announcing in 2008 that the latest book, Deathly Hallows, would have received the treatment in two films. Following the example from there was Twilight’With Dawn duet and Divergent‘s Loyal – although this second part was never realized on the big screen.
And it has not disappeared completely: Denis Villeneuve is squeezing many Dunes films from one book, Peter Jackson made three films from one book Hobbits book and upcoming Wicked The film adaptation will consist of two films.
Coming soon The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, prequel to The Hunger Games The universe is based on a book by Collins published in 2020. It features a completely new cast, but much of the same crew is behind the camera.