There are numerous upcoming ebook variations on the way in which, however the one I’m most hyped about recently is the film model of the newest Starvation Video games novel, Dawn on the Reaping. Not solely does the ebook itself have followers interested by seeing particular moments on the large display screen, however the casting updates to date have been completely on level. (Did you see who they picked to play a youthful model of Philip Seymour Hoffman’s character?) However apparently Sam Claflin, who memorably performed Finnick Odair within the unique films, is simply as excited as we’re in regards to the prequel.
Sam Claflin’s Finnick Odair received’t be in Dawn on the Reaping on account of the character not being born but throughout Haymitch’s video games. Nonetheless, the actor just lately shared that he simply met with the film’s director Francis Lawrence, and Starvation Video games in fact got here up. In his phrases:
I just lately sat down in L.A. with Francis, who’s the person who solid me. With the ability to reminisce with him and listen to in regards to the producing aspect of it, as they’re in Berlin getting ready for the movie, was so thrilling. I used to be choosing his mind. I’d heard who they’d in thoughts for casting and thought, ‘Oh my god, that is so thrilling!’ So I’m proper there with you and everybody trying ahead to it.
Whereas chatting with Selection, Claflin revealed that it wasn’t way back when he had lunch with Lawrence because the filmmaker prepares to make his fifth Starvation Video games film in Germany. The pair first met over a decade in the past when Lawrence solid Claflin as Finnick Odair, and apparently they’re nonetheless very a lot related.
Look, I do know {that a} Finnick Odair Starvation Video games prequel hasn’t been introduced, however these feedback are a stable reminder that there’s been an enormous name for it over time. When Haymitch’s story was introduced, followers have been fast to advocate for it, and prior to now, Francis Lawrence has even name-dropped Finnick earlier than when discussing which different character origins he’d wish to discover. Right here’s what else Clafin needed to say as the brand new Starvation Video games will get prepared to start out filming:
It’s been over 10 years since we shot the final movie, and it’s absurd to consider what has occurred in my life since then. It’s an enormous a part of my life.
Sam Claflin additionally stated he’s a “big lover and a fan of the world” creator Suzanne Collins created with The Starvation Video games, and “can’t assist however really feel hooked up to it.” Catching Hearth was one of many British actor’s first after beginning on different big-budget movies in his 20s, like Snow White and the Huntsman and Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides.
After all, earlier than Claflin was even solid, the character of Finnick Odair was a massively beloved fan-favorite character from The Starvation Video games books, however the actor’s casting has solely added to that. After Claflin’s phrases about his love of the movies, and his contribution to them, I solely wish to see a Finnick prequel extra.
Positive, Claflin wouldn’t essentially be the lead of it contemplating it could most likely be in regards to the character’s video games when he was 14, however the actor has spoken about how “Finnick deserved higher” prior to now. The character getting his personal film looks like one of the simplest ways to treatment this.