Don't Frak the Tracker Jackers

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As you maybe have noticed, I quite like The Hunger Games books. One might even call me a fan! So naturally I will blog every bit of information about the film adaptation until the world drowns in it. But I understand that what you can get away with in a book, where the reader's mind has to fill in some blanks, some horrific blanks, some really freaking horrific blanks, and what you can get away with showing explicitly on a movie-screen are very different beasts. And that The Hunger Games is generally aimed at the younger crowd. And that there's no way in heck these movies were ever gonna be rated R. So I'm not infuriated by director Gary Ross' statement of these exact facts, but I fear some fans might be. Via EW:

"It’s not going to be an R-rated movie because I want the 12- and 13- and 14-year-old-fans to be able to go see it,” says Ross. “This book means too much to too many teenagers for it not to be PG-13. It’s their story and they deserve to be able to access it completely. And I don’t think it needs to be more extreme than that.” He promises though that his vision for the movie will be just as stirring as anything found in Collins’ prose. “I don’t need to have a huge prosthetic budget or make this movie incredibly bloody in order for it to be just as compelling, just as scary, and just as riveting.

... [Collins]... hasn't written in any way an overly graphic book. Even things like the Tracker Jacker sequence, while horrific, it’s the ideas that Suzanne has created that are so harrowing.”

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