Interview | Francis Lawrence on the Inherent Irony of ‘The Hunger Games’

If there is a problem with The Hunger Games, it’s probably the “Hunger Games” themselves. In the blockbuster adaptation of Suzanne Collins’ best-selling novels, teenagers are forced to fight each other to the death to placate the masses. As the director of the final three films in the series, director Francis Lawrence had to strike a difficult balance between entertaining the real-life masses and arguing that all of…