Gary Ross

figure all Friday night, game time, 8 o'clock, we'll go against Don Kirkwood.

Then on Saturday, let's see, the Yankees will probably use Doc Ellis, and he'll go against Gary Ross.

Then on Sunday, Catfish Hunter against Frank Tanana, and that should be some pitching matchup with Tanana and Hunter Sunday.

Got a good pitching matchup for that day.

Yeah

... who's done all of them except for the first one, of course, which was Gary Ross.

And this is interesting to me because there was a clear decision with the original four-part trilogy anyway to slowly divest that world of color, and this looks like a very colorful-

Yeah

I will definitely link those in the show notes because they're wonderful and you should check it out.

Today we are going to be discussing the first Hunger Games book titled The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins and the 2012 film adaptation directed by Gary Ross.

In a dystopian future where the United States has been reformed into Penem, each year the Capitol forces one boy and one girl from each of the 12 districts to fight to the death as a reminder of the cost of rebellion.

Katniss Everdeen volunteers as tribute for District 12 after her younger sister Prim is reaped.

Leonard Ripps, uh, Bosom Buddies, Full House, Frankenweenie, wrote on the Hol- the Star Wars Holiday Special, y'all.

Uh, Gary Ross, director of The Hunger Games and Pleasantville, also was a writer on those and wrote Dave and Seabiscuit.

Uh, Dave Savelle, a producer on Ellen, That's So Raven, Grace Under Fire.

Uh, David Silverman, uh, really, uh, has a lot of overlap here with Steven Sostarek.

This is more of a Capra-esque kind of wish fulfillment fantasy.

Uh, this is Ivan Reitman and Gary Ross' Dave.

Thank you.

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pitch.

So Canizaro goes out to talk to Kelly, and now Gomez comes in, and they're going to make a change now so Kelly apparently hurt himself on that last pitch Gomez makes a motion to the bullpen and they're going to bring a pitcher in from right field from the bull from left field from the bullpen to come right on in and start warming up on the mound so we'll have an explanation on it a little later but apparently on the last pitch Kelly hurt himself and now Gary Ross is being called in from the bullpen to replace Kelly here So Kelly was doing well.

Kelly has had a history of a left shoulder injury, and he will have to leave now, walking off.

He was pitching well, and right-hander Gary Ross will now come on here in the third inning.

So Ross will take over, and he will be allowed as much warm-up as he needs, and he will probably take five minutes or so to get loose.

as Kelly will have to leave, and we should get a further report, but the supposition over the loudspeaker in the press box is that it would be a recurrence of his shoulder problem.

Kelly goes

off, and

So we'll have an explanation on it a little later, but apparently on the last pitch, Kelly hurt himself.

And now Gary Ross is being called in from the bullpen to replace Kelly here.

So Kelly was doing well.

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Kelly has had a history of a left shoulder injury, and he will have to leave now, walking off.

He was pitching well.

And right-hander Gary Ross will now come on here in the third inning.

So Ross will take over, and he will be allowed as much warmup as he needs, and he will probably take five minutes or so to get loose, as Kelly will have to leave.

Anne Spielberg, which is sister.

two of them two of them so I didn't realise and I'm judging by your reaction I didn't realise Spielberg had a sister that was in the industry hidden from the empire so yes hidden for reasons so she wrote it with Gary Ross and I think his name's come up in I can't imagine with all of Spielberg's connections she had access to pretty much everybody that you know yeah well initially though and uh this seems to be not like a rumor I think even Penny Marshall addresses it that initially when Anne Spielberg wrote it it was going to be for Spielberg to direct and it says that the assumption was who Spielberg's go-to man at that time Harrison Ford Ah, okay.

But they both dropped out.

And then producer James Old Brooks, he's like a legendary producer.