![]() The victors’ living quarters was filmed at the Atlanta Marriott Marquis, where Johanna Mason, played by Jena Malone, strips nude in one of the elevators. LOCATION: 130 West Paces Ferry Rd NW, Atlanta, GA 30305 The same building appears again in the sequel, “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2,” as well as the 1980 film “Little Darlings.” This was filmed at the Swan House, located on the grounds of the Atlanta History Center. Celebrating their victory, Katniss, played by Jennifer Lawrence, and Peeta, played by Josh Hutcherson, are invited to a party at the estate of President Snow, played by Donald Sutherland. In fact, it’s a six-storied set built at a parking garage in Atlanta.The 2013 sequel “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire” was primarily filmed in the Atlanta, Georgia area. ![]() When the former granite quarry closed in 2007, it naturally became a popular hang-out spot for local teens, and has also turned out to be a popular go-to location for TV series such as The Walking Dead, The Vampire Diaries and Stranger Things.ĭon’t pack your al fresco lunch and rush off just yet, the site is currently off-limits to the public while it’s being redeveloped into something called Westside Park.Īn attack on District 13 leads to mass evacuation, and you might assume that the pretty substantial stairway used by the fleeing inhabitants must be a practical location. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 location: Katniss sings The Hanging Tree: Bellwood Quarry, Chappell Road Northwest, Atlanta | Photograph: Wikimedia / LincolnhĪlong with the camera crew, Katniss and Gale relax with a quiet picnic at the water-filled Bellwood Quarry, Chappell Road Northwest, just northwest of Atlanta, which is where Katniss is persuaded to sing The Hanging Tree. The deserted site has provided war-ravaged backdrops for several movies including Enemy at the Gates, The Monuments Men and Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds. The hospital’s surrounds, savagely bombed in an air attack, are Chemiewerk Rüdersdorf, an abandoned chemical factory in Tasdorf, about 15 miles east of Berlin which could more easily accommodate the spectacular pyrotechnics. The hospital itself is the site of Martha Mills, 900 North Hightower Street in Thomaston, Georgia, some miles south of Griffin. It's the nightclub in which Dr Martin Harris ( Liam Neeson) and Gina ( January Jones) hide out in Jaume Collet-Serra's 2011 thriller Unknown.ĭistrict 8, where Katniss is taken by hovercraft to see the packed field hospital, is a mash-up of two very separate locations. ![]() Tresor (German for vault), originally housed in the vaults of the former old Wertheim department store on Leipziger, relocated to the present site in 2007. Opened in the 1960s and closed since 1997, it’s now used as an arts and entertainment space, but mainly as techno venue Tresor. This is Kraftwerk Berlin, Köpenicker Strasse 70, an old power plant in Mitte Berlin, which apart from those CG flames, is almost exactly as it appears in the film. With come reluctance, the fiercely independent, Katniss agrees to help the propaganda effort on condition that Peeta Mellark ( Josh Hutcherson) is rescued from the Capitol and pardoned for his apparent collaboration with the Snow regime.īeeTee ( Jeffrey Wright), acting as a kind of Q figure for the rebellion, equips Katniss and Gale Hawthorne ( Liam Hemsworth) with the necessary weaponry they may need from his subterranean weapons lab. The hangar from which her hovercraft departs is an Atlanta warehouse, suitably extended with CGI of course, and the body-strewn ruins took advantage of the old Griffin Textile Mill in Griffin, on Route 41 south of the city, which was in the process of being demolished – giving the film crew plenty of leeway to create destruction. In order to convince Katniss to act as Mockingjay, a propaganda figurehead for the rebellion, the District’s President Coin ( Julianne Moore) and arch-manipulator Plutarch Heavensbee ( Philip Seymour Hoffman) arrange for her to be flown to see the horrific remnants of District 12. It’s since passed through the hands of banking families and is currently the property of banking group BNP Paribas, which operates the house as a training centre.īack at the film's US base, the 'deep mine' facility of the defunct District 13 in which Katniss ( Jennifer Lawrence) finds herself living after the events of Catching Fire, is a huge set built in Atlanta. Until now, President Snow’s ( Donald Sutherland) mansion was Swan House in Atlanta but now its luxurious interior, from which Snow broadcasts to the nation, is Château de Voisins, a neoclassical mansion in Louveciennes, about 12 miles east of Paris.īuilt in the mid-17th century and, naturally, owned by a series of French aristocrats, the Château was remodelled in the mid-19th Century. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 location: the exterior of Snow's mansion: Swan House, Atlanta | Photograph: Wikimedia / Daniel Di Palma
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