![]() Much more glitzy is the victors’ living quarters in the capital, which is Atlanta’s Marriott Marquis Hotel, 265 Peachtree Center Avenue NE. The ‘Justice Building’ of ‘District 12’, where Katniss and Peeta once again find themselves drafted to fight the deadly games, is the Goat Farm Arts Center, 1200 Foster Street NW, a complex of 19th Century former industrial buildings on Atlanta’s Westside. The manipulative Snow announces the 75th anniversary Quarter Quell Games, with tributes to be chosen from previous winners. You’ll be happy to know that, as part of the Atlanta History Center, the house is open for visitors. His mansion is the elegant 1920s Swan House, 130 West Paces Ferry Road NW at East Andrews Drive in Buckhead, north of the city, where the Morning Room was transformed into Snow’s office. The Hunger Games Catching Fire location: the lavish party at Swan’s estate: Swan House, Atlanta, Georgia | Photograph: wikimedia / Jeff ClemmonsĪway from the grim ‘District 12’, Katniss and Peeta ( Josh Hutcherson) are whisked away to a lavish victory party at the estate of President Snow. The 'Rio' warehouse in Justin Lin’s 2011 Fast Five, more recognisably renamed Fast and Furious 5, was also filmed here, as were scenes for Edgar Wright's Baby Driver. Once the old farmers’ market, this too is off limits to the public though, again, it’s visible from the road, as well as from the MARTA train that runs alongside. The site is owned by the state, as is the warehouse complex on the eastern side of Murphy Avenue, southwest of downtown, which was transformed into the town square and the Justice Building of ‘District 11’. Despite being fenced off, the crumbling 26-acre industrial complex has proved a magnet for the city’s urban explorers and graffiti artists, but you non-trespassers can see clearly enough from the road. Once a repair facility for Pullman train cars, including buildings from as early as 1904, was also used for some grungy interiors. This time around, ‘The Hob’ uses the disused Pratt-Pullman Yard on Rogers Street at DeKalb Avenue NE on Atlanta’s near-Eastside. Instead, this was filmed up in snowy New Jersey, in Ramapo Mountain State Forest on Skyline Drive, near the New York State border. There’s a complete change of location, from North Carolina to Atlanta, Georgia, though it seems the Peach State couldn’t provide the wintery backdrop for the opening scenes of Katniss ( Jennifer Lawrence) suffering post-traumatic flashbacks as she hunts in the woods with Gale ( Liam Hemsworth). A huge improvement on the first film, the series really does begin to catch fire with this far more gripping and fleshed-out installment, as the devious President Snow ( Donald Sutherland) conspires with game-maker Plutarch Heavensbee ( Philip Seymour Hoffman) to compromise the credibility of the people’s favourite victors.
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