is knocked unconscious. Katniss awakens in an aircraft with Haymitch, Finnick, a still-unconscious Beetee, and Heavensbee, who is revealed to be a rebel against Snow. Haymitch tells her they are bound for District 13, headquarters of the new rebellion. He reveals that half the tributes were in on a plan to rescue Katniss, a symbol of the growing rebellion, but that Peeta and Johanna have been captured. A distraught Katniss is sedated after attempting to attack Haymitch for violating his promise to save Peeta. She awakens to find Gale by her side, who reassures her that her family is safe but that District 12 has been destroyed by the Capitol. Cast Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss Everdeen Josh Hutcherson as Peeta Mellark Liam Hemsworth as Gale Hawthorne Woody Harrelson as Haymitch Abernathy Elizabeth Banks as Effie Trinket Lenny Kravitz as Cinna Philip Seymour Hoffman as Plutarch Heavensbee Jeffrey Wright as Beetee Latier Stanley Tucci as Caesar Flickerman Donald Sutherland as President Coriolanus Snow Toby Jones as Claudius Templesmith Willow Shields as Primrose Everdeen Sam Claflin as Finnick Odair Lynn Cohen as Mags Flanagan Jena Malone as Johanna Mason Amanda Plummer as Wiress Meta Golding as Enobaria Bruno Gunn as Brutus Alan Ritchson as Gloss Stephanie Leigh Schlund as Cashmere Patrick St. Esprit as Romulus Thread Paula Malcomson as Mrs. Everdeen Stef Dawson as Annie Cresta Nelson Ascencio as Flavius Bruce Bundy as Octavia William Tokarsky as Someone Else Production Pre-production Lionsgate announced that a film adaptation of Catching Fire would be released as The Hunger Games: Catching Fire on November 22, 2013, as a sequel to the film adaptation of The Hunger Games, with principal photography to take place in September 2012. Simon Beaufoy was hired to write the script for the film and wrote two drafts before leaving after Gary Ross, director of The Hunger Games decided not to direct the sequel. The shooting timeframe was co-ordinated between Lionsgate and 20th Century Fox, in order to allow time for Jennifer Lawrence to shoot X-Men: Days of Future Past, the sequel to Fox's X-Men: First Class, in January 2013. On April 10, 2012, it was announced that Gary Ross, director of The Hunger Games, would not return due to a 'tight' and 'fitted' schedule. Ross cited the lack of time he had for directing and writing the film in the three and a half months after the release of the first