The Hunger Games

it's monday morning hello it's greg james and we start off all the latest things with some traitors chat don't worry no spoilers well actually i guess there is if you're thinking of maybe being on the traitors this is a bit of a spoiler so james acaster was speaking publicly recently at an event about a very specific moment that happens when they're filming that we don't get to see so

you walk in silence down the corridor and then you walk in and then you all sit down and then they don't announce it's going to happen so the first time this is completely blindside you but they do it every single round table is they play that song from hunger games that come into the trees

No.

No,

This movie was written by none other than Mr. DC Studios himself, James Gunn.

And it's about a mysterious company called Belko Industries, whose remote office in Columbia transforms into the Hunger Games when all of the employees are locked in and told that they'll be killed via implanted head exploders if they don't start killing each other.

The Belko Experiment isn't the most original film in the world, but it does make good use of its concept, which you can't say about a lot of other Blumhouse films.

It's a pretty tight horror action thriller, and it features a strong ensemble cast, including John C. McGinley, Audrey Arjona, Michael Rooker, Tony Goldwyn, David Dismalchian, and John Gallagher Jr., who was great as the killer in Hush.

And what I found is they weren't.

You know, they described it as like the Hunger Games.

Because the reality is, is they are pitched against each other.

They will affect their friends' results.

But at the same time, when we're going into like the remake, I think that this script, they're going to write their ass off.

But what I am praying and what I hope and what I pray is that we go back to the film quality that was in something like Jennifer's Body, something like Twilight, something like The Hunger Games, something like New Moon, that we had this grainy, really strongly color-graded piece of work because when i watch those movies i feel like i feel connected to like a younger version of myself and i also feel connected with like a part of me that would just like watch movies to watch them and not watch movies to like go online and like critique them and be like oh my god oh my god the the the um the color grading of this movie when people literally go to like a national fucking phenomenon like wicked and the only thing people are bitching about is like oh my god the sets the what's wrong with the set design what's what okay so this is a movie Just watch like literally just watch, you know, like having comments on the movie like that's really fucked up how, you know, Elphaba was treated.

Right.

Let's talk about that.

She's like, hi, guys.

It's Glenn Close in the new Hunger Games movie, where it's yes that's better Safina you are met by your parents and they say have you given us how are you doing sorry we don't mean to pry is everything okay you survived hell last night

I'm fairly sure that you know that everything is not okay.

But...

at the Midtown Times Square location.

There was a Hunger Games walkthrough experience that was across the street from the convention.

And then there's usually some screenings, like movie and show screenings that happen.

Some of those end up being off-site, but I couldn't tell you how many there actually were this year.

for that one.

We've got The Hunger Games coming up.

Yes,

the premiere is happening and I'm speaking to the cast of that.

The chick

who played the Hunger Games.

Oh, Jennifer Lawrence.

Yes,

I've seen Cabin in the Woods.

The girl from Hunger Games.

What's her name? Jennifer Lawrence is in that.

It's pretty good.