'Hunger Games' Poster Debuts (PHOTO)

Rejoice, "Hunger Games" fans: After a competitive online race to fit together the puzzle pieces of the latest "Hunger Games" poster, it has finally come together in all its glory thanks to Panem-savvy tweeter @Johnshoward.

Featuring the fearless Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) standing in the Capitol arena surrounded by pictures of fellow tribute Peeta Mellark (Josh Hutcherson), the poster was pieced together at the appropriate time as yesterday marked "100-days-until-March-23rd" (the film's release date), sending die-hard fans into a frenzy.

Pre-"Hunger Games" press alone has already launched Lawrence into super-stardom, but the "Winter's Bone" actress isn't quite ready for it. "I got a taste of fame from the Oscars and I didn't like it. That's a terrible thing to say because it's such a tremendous honor. But I went from being normal Jennifer to being at these parties where I couldn't just be the girl making dumb jokes in the corner," she told the Wall Street Journal. "I remember sitting in a coffee shop in London thinking, if I say yes to this job, next year at this time people will be here taking pictures of me with their phones. And I couldn't find a bright side in it. But I didn't want to say no to a script that I loved because I was scared."

March 23, 2012 is now only 99 days away, so feel free to celebrate by staring longingly at this daunting new image and the latest movie stills. May the odds be ever in your favor!

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Comments

[Squiriferous]

11:19 PM on 12/18/2011

Ripoff of "Logan's Run" is a ripoff.

[cillah]

12:09 PM on 12/18/2011

enjoyed the narrative ... recommend reading the trilogy before seeing the movie just to create the images and characters in your mind first before the influence of the film affects your imagination.

[Blarg]

12:26 AM on 12/18/2011

Lawrence is a good actress and has a plain, no-nonsense presentation that is a perfect fit for the book's main character.

I don't really know from Young Adult fiction, but after hearing adults saying over and over that The Hunger Games was Young Adult fiction worth reading, I gave it a shot and really loved it. It reminded me of the pure pleasure of books I read when I was very young, like the 007 books and especially all the Tarzan and Korak books. Smooth but very evocative reads, and characters grow by doing things, not just sitting around the house or cafe navel-gazing while waiting for deep revelations to come looking for them without disturbing their hair. I just checked out the second volume in the trilogy from the library.

By the way, a certain store that shall remain nameless is giving out for free the first e-book in another series this author, Suzanne Collins, wrote, called Gregg the Overlander, I think. She wrote that series before this one, and it is also very well-reviewed. I look forward to cracking it after finishing the Hunger Games Trilogy.

I sure hope this movie is good! Great poster. And I want to see Lawrence -- who really should have been nominated for an Oscar for her last movie, Winter's Bone -- have a successful career doing solid movies.

[mgpl]

07:34 PM on 12/18/2011

She was nominated for an Oscar. Winter's Bone was a really good movie.

[Blarg]

03:36 PM on 12/19/2011

Ah, I remembered falsely then. I remember feeling she got a raw deal -- probably because she didn't win it.

[megs1985]

05:31 PM on 12/16/2011

OMG I'm reading the third book now. That poster is bada** I CANT WAIT TO SEE THIS MOVIE!!!

[by-the-sea-]

03:54 PM on 12/16/2011

I CAN'T EFFING WAIT!!! I know I was shouting, I'm just really, really, excited.