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Google Earth Satellite Image Reveals Outdoor Water Park Set for ‘Hunger Games’ Sequel

Jan. 31, 2013 10:11am Liz Klimas

Editor’s note: Some spoilers below.

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The release of the second movie in “The Hunger Games” trilogy is still more than 10 months away, and if you’re going through withdrawal from the lack of “Catching Fire” news, here’s a little something to light your fire.

Google Earth’s new satellite images have revealed the set of the arena for the Quarter Quell, a Hunger Games event that happens every 25 years with a theme that makes the games even more gut-wrenching for the Districts to watch, if you can believe it. In Suzanne Collins’ second book, the 75th annual Hunger Games’ Quarter Quell has previous winners return to the arena again.

Google Earth Image Shows Hunger Games Catching Fire Set of the Quarter Quell Arena

(Image: Google Earth)

The Google Earth image was spotted by @Whedonite96 and a few other Twitter users. Earlier this year, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported an area in Clayton County, Georgia, was selected to host part of the set for the film. Here’s more specifics on the location from the AJC:

[It] will shoot at a man-made water park known as “The Beach” because it was built as the beach volleyball venue for the 1996 Olympics. The park is being transformed into a post-apocalyptic setting for the movie, which is based on a book about children forced to fight to the death for food. Other parts of the movie will be shot in Atlanta and Hawaii.

(Image: Google Earth)

The water park was chosen because the arena in the book is designed like a donut with an island at the center where the cornucopia exists (an area where useful supplies and weapons can be found by the tributes). Then there’s a ring of water that is surrounded by an outer ring of beach and jungle. MTV recently reported director Francis Lawrence explaining more about the challenge of the set:

“The arena stuff is pretty tricky… just because the sort of center of the arena where the cornucopia exists and the water and the spokes. The circular beach with the jungle around it doesn’t exist, so we have to sort of piece it all together,” he explained. “And you know even though shooting in Hawaii sounds like a lot of fun, it’s pretty tricky when you’re in the beach and waves and tides. Our set got washed away one day by the tide, and then… shooting in the jungle where there’s bugs and mud and rain. The days are short, so you don’t have much time, and you’re starting to lug around 100-pound IMAX cameras.”

Deviant Art artist alternatecoppa (via MyHungerGames.com) has a rendition of what the arena might look like on a map (Note to get a better sense of the details, visit alternatecoppa’s page):

(Image: alternatecoppa/Deviant Art)

Hopefully this helps satiate your need for “Hunger Games” updates since”Catching Fire” doesn’t hit theaters until Nov. 22.

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(H/T: io9)

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Comments (19)

1WhoQuestions
Posted on February 1, 2013 at 10:21am
The movie was good though it left out stuff. What I really enjoyed about it as well was it showed a lot more of the behind the scenes that the gamers did to the tributes.

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- Arnprl
  Posted on February 1, 2013 at 11:24am
  The movie was terrible. Unless you read the book, you had trouble following the plot.
  
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Arnprl
Posted on January 31, 2013 at 3:11pm
The books were good, but the movie was horrible. The movie storyline was more fractured than a biography of Obama.

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- soybomb315_II
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 3:24pm
  yea the movie sucked compared to book
  
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- TROONORTH
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 5:09pm
  This tired old plot has been around for . . …… . well as long as the Arnold. Anyone remember “Running Man” and about a dozen like it?
  
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- mdeputy7
  Posted on February 1, 2013 at 10:01am
  I completely disagree. The movie was very good. Maybe it didn’t match your book as much as you would have liked, but people who read the books first have GOT to understand that you can’t get even close to putting everything in a book into a movie….so they change the movies a bit in order to make it good. It was good. Quit being those people that I can’t stand being around….(the ones that constantly say “The movie was terrible compared to the book.”) It’s annoying.
  
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RDYSTGO
Posted on January 31, 2013 at 2:27pm
Phenomenal garbage written, financed, edited, printed, read, endorsed, directed, produced, acted in, watched, purchased, sequal, satellite, satellite pics, website article posting, article read and finished by phenomenal crackpots who see what the story is obviously about and they feed and obsess about the issue to the point of arming themselves to the gills, buying up veggie seeds, water filter straws, gold they can’t afford and will never use, food, food, food, and making their homes and properties into fortresses that would make Superman snort a line of Cryptonite. What is it about stories such as Hunger Games, Avatar and Atlas Shrugged that cause people to spend money and give so much praise to such stories and go on into these websites and prophecize with the best of the best revolutionists on the face of the Earth.. It is facinating to see how people are reacting to things like this in such manners and rhetoric. Try this, calm down, get off of the internet, get a job if you don’t have one, do something to help another person every day no matter what, no excuses, stop the racial hate, stop the hate period, respect others, stop cursing, get out and VOTE in the next election no matter what little snit you are throwing for the week or day and if you have true love for yourself draw yourself a huge circle on a dry erase board being the Universe and put the tiniest dot in the middle and stare at it for a bit and if it ever crossed your mind that the dot is you, BIG PROBLEM

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- smokie
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 4:45pm
  Why should you care how other people spend their money?
  And besides, look at the board you are posting on. We already do have jobs, and if we don’t are looking for one, or making one.
  
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jays
Posted on January 31, 2013 at 1:02pm
How does the Crosby Stills and Nash song go ……………Teach your children well…………….
Hollywood you are teaching the children of the entire world to kill.

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- soybomb315_II
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 1:14pm
  “Hollywood you are teaching the children of the entire world to kill”
  
  sorry – i think that is more accurately directed at the government
  
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- ATownAuthority16
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 1:51pm
  You clearly haven’t read the books or seen the movie. Were that the case, you’d know how ridiculous your comment sounds.
  
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tajloc
Posted on January 31, 2013 at 12:22pm
Watch the new movie vary from the book as the progressives take over the fear of big gov. The books are clean of this and the first movie was consistant. I’ll bet that the big bad capitalists are the antagonists as we go along.

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TonyRUS
Posted on January 31, 2013 at 11:04am
Can’t wait. Silly, high-school level reading, but very fun! However, i kept thinking while i was watching the first movie, this audience thinks this is complete fantasy, that this can’t happen. In effect, it DID happen– in Russia, in Germany, in pick-your-own-20th-century-totalitarian-mass-killing-society.

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- soybomb315_II
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 11:48am
  well it is written for young people. the point of the entire story is how government seeks to control man and how man wants to be free. Hunger Games may turn out to be this generation’s version of Atlas Shrugged – lets hope so
  
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Dagnabbit5
Posted on January 31, 2013 at 11:02am
Well, not really what I would call Blaze news

But, if the crew gets to use the water slides in between takes, then it might be fun shooting there.

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GaltLine
Posted on January 31, 2013 at 10:53am
Loved the first movie. It was obvious from the outset only big government central planners could be so arrogant and cruel in the treatment of their youngest citizens.

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- autofixer
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 11:20am
  And I have no doubt that they would do it, if afforded the opportunity!
  
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civilwarcometh
Posted on January 31, 2013 at 10:37am
So…..

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- Jloyoyo
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 12:53pm
  …why did you come here an comment then?
  
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