“The Hunger Games: Catching Fire” unveils first TV spot (video)

 October 15, 2013 - 13:19 AMT

PanARMENIAN.Net - The Hunger Games: Catching Fire has debuted its first TV spot, Digital Spy said.

The video centres around the continuing journey of Jennifer Lawrence's Katniss Everdeen.

Catching Fire centres around Hunger Games-winning tributes Katniss and Peeta (Josh Hutcherson) as they embark on a Victor's Tour around of all twelve districts.

The pair find themselves forced unwilling back into the deadly arena.

Liam Hemsworth, Elizabeth Banks, Woody Harrelson, Donald Sutherland, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Sam Claflin and Jena Malone will also feature in the Francis Lawrence-directed sequel.

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire's world premiere will be held on November 11 in the UK before debuting in cinemas worldwide on November 22.

The Hunger Games is a 2008 science fiction novel by the American writer Suzanne Collins. It is written in the voice of 16-year-old Katniss Everdeen, who lives in the post-apocalyptic nation of Panem in North America. The Capitol, a highly advanced metropolis, exercises political control over the rest of the nation. The Hunger Games are an annual event in which one boy and one girl aged 12–18 from each of the twelve districts surrounding the Capitol are selected by lottery to compete in a televised battle to the death.

The book received mostly positive feedback from major reviewers and authors, including authors Stephen King and Stephenie Meyer. It was praised for its storyline and character development, though some reviewers have noted similarities between Collins' book and Koushun Takami's Battle Royale (1999). In writing The Hunger Games, Collins drew upon Greek mythology, Roman gladiatorial games, and contemporary reality television for thematic content. The novel won many awards, including the California Young Reader Medal, and was named one of Publishers Weekly's "Best Books of the Year" in 2008.

The Hunger Games was first published in hardcover on September 14, 2008, by Scholastic, featuring a cover designed by Tim O'Brien. It has since been released in paperback and also as an audiobook and ebook. After an initial print of 200,000, the book had sold 800,000 copies by February 2010. Since its release, The Hunger Games has been translated into 26 languages, and publishing rights have been sold in 38 territories. The novel is the first in The Hunger Games trilogy, followed by Catching Fire (2009) and Mockingjay (2010). A film adaptation, directed by Gary Ross and co-written and co-produced by Collins herself, was released in 2012.