Hunger Games: Mockingjay director Francis Lawrence stated that he now understands the blended reactions to the general conserve being divided into two motion pictures.

All over an interview with People magazine, printed on-line Friday, the filmmaker admitted that if he needed to redo the Jennifer Lawrence-led motion pictures, he wouldn’t break Mockingjay into two distant portions.

“I totally regret it. I totally do,” Lawrence stated. “I’m not sure everybody does, but I definitely do.”

He additionally famous that the workforce indubitably on the pace that the 2 halves of Mockingjay, which have been discharged in theaters a day aside, “had their own separate dramatic questions,” which made for whole arcs. However he additionally stated why some fanatics weren’t too pleased with the lengthy ready duration between the flicks.

“What I realized in retrospect — and after hearing all the reactions and feeling the kind of wrath of fans, critics and people at the split — is that I realized it was frustrating,” Lawrence stated. “And I can understand it.”

He endured, “In an episode of television, if you have a cliffhanger, you have to wait a week or you could just binge it and then you can see the next episode. But making people wait a year, I think, came across as disingenuous, even though it wasn’t. Our intentions were not to be disingenuous.”

However the director additionally added that it was once great with the ability to adapt extra from the books by way of breaking it up into two pieces.

“In truth, we got more on the screen out of the book than we would’ve in any of the other movies because you’re getting close to four hours of screen time for the final book,” he defined.

As for his next prequel The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, which arrives in theaters on Nov. 17, Lawrence stated the goal was once at all times to manufacture one film from Suzanne Collins’ conserve that was once printed in 2020, although it intended for an extended run pace.

“I would never let them split the book in two,” he stated. “There was once by no means an actual dialog about it. It’s a protracted conserve, however we were given such a lot shit for splitting Mockingjay into two — from fanatics, from critics, from everyone — that I used to be like, ‘No way. I’ll simply manufacture an extended film.’ “