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Slumdog Scribe Catching Fire for Hunger Games 2

By rdemott2
Created 11/17/2011 - 14:51
files/pictures/picture-35.jpgLionsgate is courting Simon Beufoy (SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE) to adapted HUNGER GAMES follow-up CATCHING FIRE, reports Deadline.com [1]. Gary Ross will return to direct. The original plan was for Ross to adapt the script with author Suzanne Collins, but the post-production crunch on the first film has made that impossible. Ross adapted HUNGER GAMES with Billy Ray. The first film in the planned series hits theaters on March 23, 2012.


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[1] http://www.deadline.com/2011/11/lionsgate-courts-simon-beaufoy-to-script-the-hunger-games-sequel/