"How the Hunger Games’ Designer Built Its Epic ..." Topic

…Dystopian World.

"Panem in The Hunger Games franchise is unlike any world before it. Ostensibly, it's America, but with an impassable chasm between haves and have-nots, with starkly different environments for each: for the rich, the opulent, modern Capitol; for the poor, the monochromatic Districts. It's as beautiful as it is bleak—and the perfect playground for a guy who designs sets for a living.

"It's not a dystopian future like in some movies where it's this scorched-Earth civilization with destroyed buildings," says production designer Philip Messina. "The way I got my head around it is that I thought of it as an alternate universe. It really was up to us to decide what that world felt like."

For four films now, Messina has meticulously built that world. From the Brutalist, Roman-inspired buildings of the Capitol to the shacks and mines of Katniss Everdeen's home in District 12. For the final chapter—The Hunger Games: Mockingjay—Part 2, out this week—he had to craft the underground bunkers of District 13 and turn the Capitol into a booby-trapped battle zone that Katniss (Jennifer Lawrence) and her fellow rebels must navigate to complete their uprising against President Snow (Donald Sutherland)…"
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