Nina Jacobson (The Producer of The Hunger Games) talks with MovieShark.


Given that you are such a huge fan of the books, did you have input into or control over the look and design of the film?
Yes and no. Ultimately, I am very filmmaker oriented, as a producer. think the most important thing is that you have to really choose the players carefully. It was very important to me to choose a director like Gary [Ross], whose instincts come from character, who’s a storyteller, and who puts characters first. Visually, I felt that with each movie, Gary adopts a different style. He doesn’t have one look that’s “the Gary Ross look”, and I thought that was important. We needed somebody who would be character based and who would find the look of the movie. Also, the hiring of Phil Messina, the production designer, was a big decision. He’s so gifted, and his ideas were always so smart and rooted in American history and architecture. Nothing feels like it’s not us, or couldn’t be us, and I think that’s very important. But, in the evolution of the movie, Gary and I talked a lot about “tonal bandwidth” and making sure that the look and feel and style and choices of the movie stayed within a certain consistent bandwidth.
Source: Hggirlonfire.com