The World Is Watching: Making the Hunger Games 12 years old

A feature length, eight part documentary that covers everything from pre-production to adapting the source novel to casting to shooting to post and marketing. This is an amazing in-depth piece and it's notable how many women were involved in this production, from several Lionsgate executives to novelist Suzanne Collins herself. Jennifer Lawrence talks about her "hypocrisy" in not wanting to do a big budget blockbuster after having devoted herself to indies (despite X-Men, which she seems to discount somewhat). There's also a nice sequence on the strength and weight training the actors went through and the stunts that are so notable in the film, as well as having to dance around the violence implicit in the story due to the planned PG-13 rating the filmmakers were aiming for.

Credits

Elizabeth Banks as Herself

Jennifer Lawrence as Herself

Gary Ross as Himself

Josh Hutcherson as Himself

Donald Sutherland as Himself

Woody Harrelson as Himself

The World Is Watching: Making the Hunger Games Cast

Name	Character
Elizabeth Banks She was 50, now 50 years old	as Herself
Jennifer Lawrence She was 34, now 34 years old	as Herself
Gary Ross He was 68, now 68 years old	as Himself
Josh Hutcherson He was 32, now 32 years old	as Himself
Donald Sutherland He was 89, now 89 years old	as Himself
Woody Harrelson He was 63, now 63 years old	as Himself
Stanley Tucci He was 64, now 64 years old	as Himself
Liam Hemsworth He was 34, now 34 years old	as Himself
Lenny Kravitz He was 60, now 60 years old	as Himself

The World Is Watching: Making the Hunger Games Crew

Name	Department

The World Is Watching: Making the Hunger Games poster

The World Is Watching: Making the Hunger Games (12 years)

Release day: Saturday, August 18, 2012
Runtime: 122 minutes