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Of course everyone was excited to hear that they could finally jump into The Hunger Games and live out their murderous, dystopian nightmare dream on vacation in DuPont State Recreational Forest AKA the child murder arena from the movie, but what if we we wanted to live our our The Hunger Games fantasies FOREVER? WHAT THEN? From The Guardian:
An abandoned mill town in North Carolina that was used to film key scenes in box-office smash The Hunger Games has been put up for sale by its owner for $1.4m.
Henry River Mill Village, which covers 72 acres, was used by producers to shoot scenes in District 12, where the film’s heroine Katniss Everdeen lives in Gary Ross’s dystopian science-fiction film. The mill itself, which produced fine yarn, closed some time in the 1960s and the last resident moved out in 1987. The building burned down in 1977, but more than 20 others remain including the company store which doubled for the family bakery where Everdeen encounters Peeta Mellark in a flashback scene.
“I’m getting too many visitors,” the ghost town’s owner, Wade Shepherd, 83, of Transylvania County told the Associated Press. “Day and night, they’re driving through, taking pictures, getting out and walking. I’m just bombarded with people.”
Lots of new friends AND a perfect forever life in our dream location, the place where Katniss Everdeen lived in the movie?! I’VE ALREADY WRITTEN CHECKS FOR ALL OF US, THE BUS LEAVES ON MONDAY APRIL 9TH, WHETHER OR NOT WE’LL DECIDE TO HAVE OUR OWN HUNGER GAMES ONCE WE GET THERE I’M NOT SURE ABOUT FOR NOW, WE’LL JUST HAVE TO FIGURE IT OUT WHEN THE TIME COMES!
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Wait where will they film 2 3 and 4? ? ? ? ? ?
What time is the bus leaving? Will you stop at my house? I need to make sure all my bags are packed in time!!
I mean, I know you’re joking. Haha, of course. I’m an ADULT, Kelly. *hastily removes Mockingjay pin from her blouse*
I watched the movie and then went straight to the book shop, bought all three and read the series in a week. Not only will I be on that bus but I’m going to be in the front row and get a nose bleed.
Really? There’s an old man who owns a ghost town in Transylvania County? Why am I just hearing about this?
He’s really old but he looks super young … it’s weird. I don’t know how he gets food since he can’t drive, but he’s been looking a little healthier with all the out of towners coming through recently.
Sorry, saving up to buy the farm featured in The Walking Dead. Comes with a free Herschel and a Honda Fit.
ACTUALLY GOOD SIR OR MADAM, IF YOU LOOK CLOSELY WITH A TRAINED EYE, YOU WILL SEE THAT IT IS NOT A HONDA FIT AS YOU HAVE POSITED, BUT THREE CHILEAN HORSES HELD TOGETHER BY ELECTRICAL WIRE. FURTHERMORE,
YOU HAVE MY AXE!
seriously. it’s an antique! probably worth a few thousand bucks…
Ooooh let’s turn it into a commune and we’ll make soap and candles and do tours to make enough money to feed our goats. I wanna live on a commune so bad.
$1.4 million — jeez, that’s a lot of donuts. Imagine what Districts 1-11 are going to run.
district 9 remains a shit hole.
Didn’t Sharlto Copley make it cleaner after he got turned into a prawn? Didn’t that happen at the end?
I’d rather live in District 9 for real than ever watch The Hunger Games again.
Seriously, how much do we have left after we pay for that Jodie Sweetin chat?
This trend of visiting movie filming locations reminds me of a point brought up on the Indoor Kids podcast about how people who play Skyrim love how gorgeous the game looks (because it does look gorgeous) and compliment the creators of Skyrim for how beautiful it all is, and if there is an actual heavenly Creator (God), then he/she/they’re looking down on us going “Hey! Step outside! Look what I created, you jerks!”
When people visit film locations like this or Twilight’s, where fake battles raged on and Vampire baseball was played, I imagine the spirits from famous battle grounds and historic locations just at a complete loss for words (ghost words).
Hunger Games Fan: “Look! This is where Katniss ran from cg fire!”
Sherman’s Ghost: “I LITERALLY set fire to everything in my path.”
i can show you my home town where all the John Hughes movies were filmed…unless you are my stupid cousin who 1) has never seen Uncle Buck or Ferris Bueller and 2) when asked about Bill Murray responded, “the old guy?”
“Grand canyon? big deal, call me when they film a YA movie there.” -explainer guy’s cousin
I’ve got dibs on the bakery!! you won’t find any burnt bread here.
So you won’t sacrifice your arms and some bread for the girl you lurve? Not interested.
You’ll have to outbid Miley Cyrus.
Can we still mill things? What kind of things? This could be a really good investment opportunity. I want to buy it but I have about $40 to spare. But if it keeps the area from getting strip mined, I would actually spend $40 on an old mill town.
Wait, we don’t have to take Gale, right? Because if he’s part of it, we should lowball at $250,000.
I could take one for the team and keep Gale occupied, because I really care about you guys and this venture. It’s a sacrifice I’m willing to make.
Badideajeans, you just get it.
I don’t care if your Thor’s brother, Gale, you are the worst in the books!
*YOU’RE
This day is long.
i agree, but i hated gale by the third book on first read and now on the 2nd read (member of cool kids club) I’m in the middle of the 2nd book and I’m much more sympathetic to him. But still, #TeamPeeta