A Catching Fire trailer!

Before 2012, Jennifer Lawrence was already seen as 'one with promise'. She had an Oscar nomination early in her career and had already bagged a role in a widely-known franchise, X-Men. One could have predicted stardom to fall on her doorstep with time. But the wait didn't last long, did it? In 2012, packed with a quiver of arrows, out stepped Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games, and achieved a big push to the A-star list. As if that was not enough, she rounded off the year with a stellar performance in Silver Linings Playbook to finally achieve a glory that many crave for throughout their lives, an Academy Award! The tricky part for Lawrence lies in maintaining this high success ratio, as at only 22 years, she has a much longer journey to undertake. What is going to of course keep her on the cover pages for a few years at least (and I am expecting her reign to be for a much longer time than that), would be her role as Katniss Everdeen in the upcoming sequels of The Hunger Games.

The second movie, based on the second book of the trilogy, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire is out with its first trailer. And if you are expecting any slowdown in the pace and the drama that the first movie had created, gosh, are you wrong! The trailer opens with scenes taken right from the book, when the victors of the previous Games are showcased in front of various districts, here specifically District 11 (Rue's district, remember?). What is then to follow are the initial sparks of a rebellion, or call it a revolution! The trailer is tough, there is hardly much in terms of the romantic angles which actually played quite a part in the book at least, and the music is haunting and gripping as was the case with the trailer for the first movie. President Snow's motives are explicitly made clear here (unlike the books where one understands them over a course of time), and the presence itself of Philip Seymour Hoffman besides Snow adds further to the credibility of the movie series. Just as was the case with the first trailer of The Hunger Games, this too does not have any scenes from the fight itself but ends on a rather ominous note on things to come. And as if you could not have guessed, Jennifer Lawrence once again seems to stand out in the bits that we see of her in the trailer. The Hunger Games: Catching Fire is to be released in November this year, but the heat is already building! The trailer below...