“The Hunger Games”–Our “Harry Potter”?
“The Hunger Games” is part “Harry Potter” meets the “Truman Show” with a dash of “American Idol” and “Lord of the Flies.”
The blockbuster trilogy by Suzanne Collins is set to be an equally sensational trilogy on the silver screen. Like the Harry Potter series, Collins’ trilogy is targeted to a young adult audience. “The Hunger Games” is a dystopian tale about a country called Panem (from the Latin meaning–“bread and circuses”, loosely referring to the government’s providing food and recreation...