EDITORIAL: What The F….innick!?
7/17/2012UncategorizedShylah
Sweet Poseidon save us from these unending Finnick rumors!
Is it just me, or is anyone else looking back at casting for The Hunger Games with longing desire to return to those simpler times. Remember how we got Jen first, in a blaze of glory, followed just days later with Peeta and Gale? I mean, sure, there were still TONS of people to cast after the new trio, but, like with ripping a band aid off, we got the worst of it over quickly.
Now, as we find ourselves in the long slog of Catching Fire, casting– that month of casting seems like a sweet dream.
I’m not talking about waiting for official casting news- Lionsgate has always erred on the side of delicious suspense punctuated with surprising announcements; and, so far, with the official announcements of Philip Seymour Hoffman and Amanda Plummer, they haven’t disappointed.
No, news media and gossip sites, I am talking about your never ending series of INSIDE SCOOPS! and ANONYMOUS SOURCES! that keep clogging up my twitter timeline with OFFERS! and FRONT-RUNNERS! News that would normally be awesome if, you know, everything you report didn’t end up refuted about two hours later. Oh, you want examples? Well how about:
- That time Robert Pattinson was the Finnick choice.
- Or it was down to Garrett Hedlund, Armie Hammer, and Taylor Kitsch
- Or when Armie Hammer was the only choice of Francis Lawrence
- Or when Taylor was out but secretly still up for the role? Oh wait, just kidding, he’s definitely out. Don’t ask him about it.
Remember all of those times? No? Well here’s something a little more recent. Remember when, five hours ago, you reported that Sam Claflin was offered the role of Finnick? You know offered like he was 99% likely to receive the role? That role which will film later this summer? Remember that?
Well then explain this:
Game Of Thrones star Emilia Clarke and Sam Claflin (Snow White And The Huntsman) have been set to co-star in Overdrive, a car-heist movie being produced by Taken director Pierre Morel. Antonio Negret (Transit) is directing from a screenplay by Wanted scribes Michael Brandt and Derek Haas. Karl Urban already has been cast in the story of two American brothers who decide to take their careers as car thieves to the next level by fleeing to the South of France, where they run afoul of a black marketeer. The pic is shooting in Marseille later in the summer; production was pushed back to accommodate Urban’s shooting schedule on Paramount’s Star Trek sequel. He also stars in Lionsgate’s upcoming reboot Dredd.
Or what about the Melissa Leo is totally going to be Mags rumor? Because this just happened, too:
My fragile fangirl heart can’t take it anymore. I know that you all make you money from webhits and that scooping up a major story like Finnick would be super-duper groovy for you all, but all of these false alarms are NOT COOL.
Look, you can’t shout FIRE! in a crowded building that’s not burning. It’s not safe. People get panicky, they start stampeding and trampling each other. People get hurt. But, more importantly, people trust you a little less–especially if you keep doing it. Until, one day the theater is actually in flames and no one cares what you’re yelling about anymore.
The Hunger Games fandom is starving for news, and we trust (most) of you to give us the early scoop because, in the past, you were really good at separating the REAL from the NOT REAL.
Get good again or else you’re going to have a fandom fire to deal with, and, movie news dudes, fire is catching.
And, P.S., if you’re all yanking my chain about Tony Shalhoub as Beetee– and that turns out NOT to be true– then I. WILL. FIND. YOU.
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30 comments
Erin
on said:
Beautifully written, Shylah. Well said.
Selina
on said:
LOL, LOVE THIS! Right on!
Katelyn
on said:
I really want to give you a huge hug right now. Thanks for saying what we’ve all been thinking for the past 2 months!
Dani
on said:
ALL THE LOLZ. Totally right though. I can’t take this suspense and chain pulling!
Destined
on said:
Yasss go off! That’s exactly how I feel. Any true fan would know Melissa for Mags was a real big stretch because of the description. And I’m really hoping Sam is a rumor anyway, but looking at his schedule it confirms it really could be. Lionsgate really needs to kill all rumors esp if they’re not in the running at all. This quiet stuff is not working.
Deb
on said:
LOL! You’re right, this is INSANE.
BTW, it should be mentioned that Jeff Sneider and the Deadline Hollywood site have a huge running feud. So that may have something to do with why we’re getting conflicting reports from them. They’re always trying to one-up each other.
Faith
on said:
Oh my gosh, THIS IS THE BEST! Nobody could have written it any better. Everything I feel about this you have perfectly put into one article, lol.
I really hope they clear up with the rumor’s, their killing us!!
Katie
on said:
LOL! We take the HG trilogy waaaay to seriously!!!! Hey, and isn’t Catching Fire supposed to film this FALL???? Sam would be done with that other movie by then.
IN THE MEAN TIME THOUGH………….. I found an interview with Gale, I, um, mean Liam……everyone has probably already seen it tough….. http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/liam-hemsworths-fiancee-miley-cyrus-is-team-katniss–2012177
Surpisingly, Miley is team Katniss…..
Theresa
on said:
If Sam is attached to this other film that shoots late summer, it will most likely overlap with the Catching Fire start date which is rumored as late August/September. I guess we’ll have to wait and see what is real and what is not real. But the rumors are killing me!
Kiara
on said:
It’s possible that even if Catching Fire starts filming late August/September that they wait to shoot Finnick’s scenes until later. There was a rumor that they were going to shoot Victor’s Village scenes in Atlanta, so they might do that first until Sam’s schedule is clear and then go to Hawaii. Just a thought.
Katie
on said:
EXACTLY!
Michaela
on said:
Casting for the first hunger games movie was slow but exciting. A new person (or set of tributes) was cast each day and the rumors for huge roles like Katniss often ended up being true.
Casting for this movie majorly SUCKS. Not a single rumor is ever true, Lionsgate won’t freaking confirm or deny ANYTHING, and the casting is happening on randomly pucked days. Honestly? It is really starting to tick me off. I’m sick of it. It isn’t fun anymore. It’s annoying as hell.
Michaela
on said:
*picked, not pucked
kyle
on said:
YOU GO GIRL!
Destined
on said:
@Michaela that’s because I really do think they are going back and forth with Johanna and Finnick and casting is still open. I feel they have an idea or picks but nothing that’s like jumping at them to sign, which is weird to me. I feel one of those would have been confirmed by Lionsgate by now to ease the public, but both are still up in the air. They have a totally new person rumored to be Johanna and her talking about auditions up to Sunday and everything on her facebook. So I’m treating all this as rumors until Lionsgate give the go like with Phillip and Amanda casting.
Savanah
on said:
Are you talking about the Shontae Saldana girl? I think she is just doing that for attention. I first saw her on the Official Catching Fire Casting page, where she was promoting herself, but she has shown up in multiple other places just for recognition. If you saw it on IMDB, too, well, information can be added on that site, just like Wikipedia. It’s not a valid source for official information. If by an extremely slim chance she did actually addition, she’s not getting it now due to her behavior on the Internet.
Destined
on said:
Yes that’s the one. I really don’t believe she is bluffing b/c of the timing of her facebook comments and the fact Lionsgate has not said anything about Jena. That rumor went viral and mum is still the word. I don’t believe she officially has the part and its still open. It would make sense and line up with Lainey story of Jena or her camp starting the rumor to rile up fan support. As far as I see it, all these roles are open until Lionsgate says otherwise.
Savanah
on said:
What makes me believe that this is a scam is because if she was indeed up for the role of Johanna, she wouldn’t be talking about it all over the internet (ESPECIALLY on Lionsgate’s FB pages). I looked at her profile and she does seem to be an unknown actress trying to get the right role. It looks like she wants an audition, but if she had one, she wouldn’t be commenting about it, you know?
Also– if the rumor was true, maybe they are still working out her contract? Those take a long time work out. A month passed before the PSH rumor was confirmed. What we do know is that Jena has definitely auditioned. Maybe something official will come out soon and all of this worrying can be put to an end!
Destined
on said:
*shrugs* we’ll see. But I think she was just putting it out there letting it be known she indeed had the privilege of trying out for that role. That is something to be proud of. I too want these rumors to end. That way the underwhelming idea of Sam and Jena being cast can set in for me. I hope they do well if they are, but it is sort of a let down to what could of been with these characters. We’ll see though……..
Sophie
on said:
YES! So that means that Sam isn’t going to play Finnick? wohoo
Mitchell
on said:
I couldn’t have said it better myself… I swear, the next time s Finnick Rumour surfaces I will throw my laptop against the wall…
KDEEN
on said:
You see, this a new experience for me. I first read the trilogy back in February-March 2011, so it was before I was aware of a movie. Then eventually sometime in April I happened to search the Hunger Games on the Internet and discovered all of the movie info. Everyone had already been cast when I found out there was to be a movie, so I really couldn’t complain. But now there’s this Catching Fire madness and I wonder what it must’ve been like the first go around.
Marley
on said:
Well geez you don’t have to get all upset about it
. No really these rumors are nuts!
Georgia
on said:
Whoo long rant!
Jenna
on said:
Yes! I hate all of these casting rumors! I’m just going to ignore them until we hear from Lionsgate officially.
Sandra Lopez
on said:
I’ve been ignoring all of the articles. I’m so sick of it.
satsuma
on said:
I’m ignoring most of the rumors as well. I find it sad that so many fans get so angry and upset over rumors that turn out to be Not Real. I’ve seen a lot of posts here and on other fansites where people bash certain actors in really immature ways, or accuse LG of being racist, ageist, etc. Maybe it’s a good thing that I only became interested in THG after the first movie came out, since it seems many fans were appalled by the Katniss, Peeta, and Gale casting at first.
Tiana
on said:
You need to post this article on Hypable!
Zaire
on said:
I really, really appreciated all of the not so hidden HG trilogy book references in this article.
The Hunger Games fandom is one that has always been very involved with casting, and always very freely voiced their opinions about casting choices. I think we as fans should.. uhum uhum.. back off and let the casting team do their jobs. They know what they are doing. Every time they cast someone, I allready have someone in mind and then they pick someone else and usually my reaction is something like ‘Wasn’t who I’d pick, but WOW that is an AMAZING CASTING CHOICE!’ It happened when they casted Lenny Kravitz as Cinna especially. They know what we want better than we know ourselves.
Katie
on said:
HEY! I just had a thought…… since these have all been RUMORS why have they been treated like probable facts??? It’s called a rumor for a reason. I think we all need to just take a chill-pill and just have fun with this! That’s what I’m doing!
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