Hungarian Games :D:D
Yes, the goal was to be as near to the original novel as possible. In my opinion, thats the biggest mistake which a screenwriter and/or regisseur can do, because...yeah, well, a book is a book and a film is a film. For instance, it can be very thrilling if the protagonist of a book is standing before the door of a ghost house/spooky mansion and - over three, four pages - is thinking and reconsidering if s*he [:D] will open it or not. Try this to implement it in a film: for three or four minutes the protagonist is thinking and reconsidering to step into the house. It kills the movie! But very alarmingly exactly that happens since Harry Potter 7! ....and "The Hobbit" ...and "The Hunger Games". And I don't get it. Or in other words: that publishers try that, including splitting the finals, is for good reason, namely: for the money. But that the fans - film or novel fans - are running, rushing(!) into the movie theaters, thats beyond of any (at least my :rolleyes:) understanding .
Oops, the boss is entering the arena...office. cya!