The Hunger Games: Catching Fire Final Trailer Released: Watch Jennifer Lawrence Get Ready for War

J.Law's big-screen heroine is entering her most dangerous contest yet in the highly anticipated sequel

By Josh Grossberg Oct 28, 2013 5:28 PMTags
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The time for games is over.

The final trailer for The Hunger Games: Catching Fire has hit the web and finds Jennifer Lawrence's Katniss Everdeen in the fight of her life under the watchful, omnipresent eye of President Snow, played by Donald Sutherland.

The clip starts off with everyone's favorite Tribute climbing to the top of a tree during what presumably is the Quarter Quell, a special competition that takes place every 25 years pitting past Hunger Games victors against one another to the death.

Of course, Katniss is in hot water with the tyrannical Panem leader who's incensed that she and fellow winner Peeta Mellark (Josh Hutcherson) broke the rules to survive the last Game, and in so doing, inspired rebellion within the districts.

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After allowing the duo—now popular with the oppressed populace—go on a victory tour, he's hatched a devious plot to knock them off by having them go up against vicious killers that will make the last Hunger Game look like child's play by comparison.

The teaser also shows a lot more action than previous trailers of Catching Fire including: scenes of Katniss putting her bow and arrow skills to good use, evading a raging flood in the jungle and avoiding a nasty run-in with a family of angry baboons and a flock of birds that would have even Alfred Hitchcock nodding in approval.

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Meanwhile Lawrence and costar Liam Hemsworth, who plays Katniss' best friend Gale Hawthrone in the sci-fi dystopia, are hosting sneak peeks of the second installment for a good cause.

The 23-year-old actress is helping to organize a screening on Nov. 20 in her hometown of Louisville, Ky. to raise money for the St. Mary's Center while the night beore Miley Cyrus' ex is scheduled to attend a charity screening in Knoxville, Tenn., to raise money for the Children's Charity of Eastern Tennessee.

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, directed by Francis Lawrence (I Am Legend), hits theaters on Nov. 22.

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