Well this news is disappointing.
Gary Ross, director of the box-office smash The Hunger Games, will not be returning for the sequel Catching Fire. According to "Indiewire" (big thanks to my friend Michael Pagano for the scoop) Ross was in talks with Lionsgate and Fox over the weekend, however negotiations fell apart and Ross is officially off of the project. The director of both Seabiscuit and Pleasantville will now presumably return to a previous project, Outback, a sci-fi film that Carey Mulligan is set to star in. Outback was a film that Ross had been attached to but backed out of because he thought he was going to be part of Catching Fire. Sadly it is not be.
Honestly, I cannot think of one director right now to replace Ross off of the top of my head. Like my favorite movie website joblo.com points out, The Hunger Games trilogy could be very much like Harry Potter or Twilight where directors are constantly being changed. I think as long as the producers stick to the source material and the director doesn't go rogue, Catching Fire will do just fine no matter who sits in the director's chair. One thing's for sure is that Fox and Lionsgate are scrambling for a director right now.
Filming for Catching Fire starts this fall with a Thanksgiving 2013 release date.
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