The official franchise consists of four movies which all focus on Katniss Everdeen, a teenage girl fighting for survival in the fictional post-apocalyptic world of Panem. Although it’s not the main focus of the films, there’s also a love triangle in The Hunger Games between Katniss and her two friends, Peeta and Gale.
While both of these franchises have been around for over ten years, their impact remains. A decade after its first release, a new movie called The Battle of Songbirds and Snakes is coming to The Hunger Games franchise. And Twilight is going through a resurgence of popularity - while the movies were often ridiculed during their time (likely because of their association with a teenage girl fanbase), many people are now revisiting them with a new, more open-minded perspective. Now, with the success of The Batman as well as Kristen Stewart’s uncanny performance as Princess Diana in Spencer, the Twilight actors are getting recognized for their acting chops.
In honor of April Fool's Day, the social media teams for Twilight and The Hunger Games have created some hilarious posters and switched their names. The Hunger Games tweets a fake poster featuring Bella with red eyes and Edward and Jacob below her, all of them surrounded by flames, with the words “The Hunger Games: Breaking Dawn Part 1” in the classic Hunger Games font. In The Hunger Games, Katniss is often referred to as “the girl on fire,” and fire is a common motif in her clothing, which explains the fire in the poster. The Twilight tweets a poster of Katniss, Peeta, and Gale in the signature Twilight color scheme consisting of grays and blues, with the words “the twilight saga: mockingjay part 1” in the signature Twilight font. Check out the posters below:
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Click Here To View The Original Hunger Games Post
It’s likely that the social media teams for these two movie series were just drawing on overlapping fanbases to pull a benign prank. But there’s also the possibility that these tweets are signaling something more to fans. Some sort of collaboration, perhaps? With the massive fanbases surrounding both the Twilight and Hunger Games franchises, a collaboration would certainly be welcomed news.
The caption tweeted alongside the fake posters - “not a lot going on at the moment” - has become a signature phrase of Taylor Swift’s, who's known for her Easter eggs. In the middle of COVID-19 quarantine, Swift posted a selfie with the caption “not a lot going on at the moment,” but shortly after, she released her wildly successful album folklore. So, fans have been wondering whether these posters have anything to do with the singer. It’s a long shot, but is there a chance Swift is in on the joke in some way? After all, her song “Safe and Sound” was part of The Hunger Games soundtrack. As more time es, fans will learn whether this was just an April Fool's joke from Twilight and The Hunger Games s or if it's something more.
Source: TheHungerGames, Twilight/Twitter
