All early cuts of the films embraced the grim subject matter.
The series of The Hunger Games novels by author Suzanne Collins might have been aimed at young adults, but as they depicted teens battling to the death using all manner of weapons in a brutal dystopia, the stories contained some violent and gruesome sequences.
Speaking with Jake's Takes about whether a Hunger Games movie could ever be rated R, Lawrence explained,"The truth is every Hunger Games movie that I've done has gotten an R rating at first. And we always have to inch it back and inch it back and inch it back, and go back and forth with the MPAA to sort of nudge it back into PG-13. So I'm always approaching it thinking we have to be PG-13, but we always end up getting an R first and have to inch it back.
As if the first The Hunger Games wasn't brutal enough, given that it established the premise of the franchise and the combatants fighting to the death, each successive entry had an even higher body count, as Jennifer Lawrence's Katniss Everdeen inspired allies to rebel against a fascist government. Lawrence directed The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1, and The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2.
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