Every other week, it seems like news is dropping about yet another post-apocalyptic film adaptation of a young-adult novel. In the past couple of years, the Divergent, Maze Runner and upcoming release The 5th Wave all center of teens grappling with world-ending circumstances and attempting to fight back against the unjust society they live in. In that regard, The Hunger Games can easily be labelled as something of a trendsetter, despite early claims that the Suzanne Collins’ trilogy (and their film adaptations) hewed a bit too closely to the 1999 Japanese novel and its 2000 film. Now The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 — because Harry Potter and Twilight have apparently taught us that every grand finale requires two films — is here to finish the job it started.

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