Karey Kirkpatrick has screenwriting credits in the 2008 fantasy film based on the book by whom?
Karey Kirkpatrick Karey Kirkpatrick (born December 14, 1964) is an American screenwriter and director. His films include "James and the Giant Peach", "Chicken Run", "The Spiderwick Chronicles", "Charlotte's Web" and "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" adaptation, along with contributions to the "Smurfs" films. He has also directed the films "Imagine That" starring Eddie Murphy as well as "Over the Hedge". Kirkpatrick wrote the English-language screenplay for U.S. release of "The Secret World of Arrietty", in 2012 and "From Up on Poppy Hill", in 2013. His brother is American songwriter and musician Wayne Kirkpatrick, with whom he wrote the 2015 musical "Something Rotten!".
The Hunger Games (novel) The Hunger Games is a 2008 dystopian novel by the American writer Suzanne Collins. It is written in the voice of 16-year-old Katniss Everdeen, who lives in the future, post-apocalyptic nation of Panem in North America. The Capitol, a highly advanced metropolis, exercises political control over the rest of the nation. The Hunger Games is an annual event in which one boy and one girl aged 12–18 from each of the twelve districts surrounding the Capitol are selected by lottery to compete in a televised battle to the death.