Sure the box office success of The Hunger Games, which has grossed nearly $370 million at the time of this article, has pretty much guaranteed the sequel Catching Fire is coming quickly.
A release date has even been set for November 22, 2013, but apparently negotiations to bring back director Gary Ross have
gotten pretty tense and could delay the film's projected release.
Word on the street from THR is that negotiations to have him helm The Hunger Games were already difficult because he had an Oscar nod in his past from Seabiscuit, and now that the franchise is a big cash cow, Ross is looking for a raise.
Apparently Fox's option to bring Jennifer Lawrence back as Mystique in an X-Men: First Class sequel would trump the hold that Lionsgate has to put Lawrence in Catching Fire.
So the race is on to see which production will be ready first, and unless negotiations with Ross quickly take a turn for the better,
there's a possibility that we might not see a sequel to this new successful franchise until 2014, perhaps in the same March slot that the first film debuted.
http://www.firstshowing.net/2012/dir...catching-fire/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz...igher-fee.html
I cannot at the thought of harassing myself by waiting to see Catching Fire that long.
Fingers crossed at Lionsgate sticking to that November 2013 release date.
