Let's rush to judgment: 'catching fire'

[embedded content] After the huge success of _The Hunger Games_, both movie and book, it seems like a foregone conclusion that there's enormous pent-up demand for the next chapter of

the film adaptation, _Catching Fire_. This is the book where Katniss' story becomes much more explicitly political, and her status as a revolutionary and a warrior is more fully

realized. It's also, however, where it begins to become clearer that this is a dark story that will have its devastating moments. But even aside from the now Oscar-blessed Jennifer

Lawrence, who can't get into a movie where Philip Seymour Hoffman and Donald Sutherland sit around scheming? _Catching Fire_ opens November 22. [via Jezebel] Copyright 2020 NPR. To see

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