‘The Hunger Games: Catching Fire’ to Film at Man-Made Olympic Beach
AJC is reporting that parts of ‘The Hunger Games: Catching Fire’ will be filmed at a section of Clayton County’s International Park called ‘The Beach’. Open only during the summer months, The Beach was originally constructed for the beach volleyball venue for the 1996 Olympics. Photos of the “beach” look a little on the old side, but the article says that the water will be pumped out and re-filled. This will probably be where they film the Cornucopia, which makes sense, since I’d been thinking that the water scenes would be near impossible to actually film in the ocean in Hawaii.
Clayton County will be paid $80,000 in the deal it reached with Project GGX Productions Inc., according to documents obtained by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Additionally, off-duty Clayton police officers will earn $45 an hour for security, and a Clayton County Water Authority worker will be paid $75 an hour to drain and refill the park’s lake.
“It’s a really big deal for us,” said Grant Wainscott, director of Clayton’s Economic Development and Film & Entertainment Office. “There’s a lot of community pride when they can see the county on the big screen. It’s a great positive. There’s a lot of challenging economic news in the region, and when we can highlight something incredible … this is by all means a great success story for Clayton County.”
Source: AJC
CAN’T WAIT FOR THE MOVIE!!! Going to be fun to see how close it is to the book!!
That’s CORNUCOPIA !!
It really looks awesome. I’m pleased
I’m really happy with it! It is supposed to be man-made and it is like a perfect circle. I can’t wait till they…. never mind… spoilers!
REALLY excited though!!!!!!!
Here’s an aerial view of “The Beach”.
http://goo.gl/maps/mx4mR
Makes sense that this would be a good area for filming the Cornucopia since it is round. They’ll just need to CGI some forest in.
I agree with everyone!:) i think it looks really cool and close to what I imagined in the book
I was there on the fourth of July and cant wait till catching fire come out
This looks great! Exactly how I imagined it! Can’t wait for the film
Seen pics of this place when my uncle, his ‘roomamte’ and his roomamte’s neice went their in the summer. Epic place for Cornucopia scenes!!!
What the HECK?
I don’t think this is where the cornucopia bloodbath will be filmed, but I do think this is where Wiress dies. You know, for close up shots of it.
Really Awesome! I wonder how they’re going to remove that giant slide structure. It’s quiet bothersome! Lol but nonetheless, really excited to see how it works out
I don’t get it. If they’re using this for Cornucopia/water shots, what’s left to film in Hawaii? Why not just shoot the whole thing here?
@spm- there’s still all the jungle scenes that they have to shoot. They probably chose this place to do the cornucopia scenes because its controlled, presumably not too deep, and no waves to worry about. It’s much safer and may be cinematically more visual when its all set and done.
$75 dollars an hour to drain and refill a pool! In Michigan, we are lucky to get $20 or $30 dollars an hour to do something like that. Guess it’s nice to live the dream. I’m really excited for the movie though. Interested to see how the beginning goes, considering how different the book ending and movie ending were.
Interesting to make your own beach
AWESOME.
I know I’m a bit late on this, but this is pretty much EXACTLY how I pictured it in the book.
Minus the slide and all that, of course. :]