Why the Decision to Digitally Recreate Philip Seymour Hoffman for the Final Hunger Games Film is Understandable, But Still Unsettling

In addition to the many heartfelt tributes that have appeared in the wake of actor Philip Seymour Hoffman's untimely death, not to mention the frankly unsettling way in which the news media has picked over the circumstances surrounding his death, one of the more callous questions that has been asked over the last few days, admittedly by people who should probably look up the meaning of the word "tact," has been, "What about the Hunger Games sequels? Won't someone please think of the Hunger Games sequels!"

Film Review: The Hunger Games (2012)

Adapted from the phenomenally successful book by Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games takes place in a future North America which has been ravaged and reshaped by natural disasters and war. In this terrible new world, the continent has been divided up into twelve districts which are ruled over by a decadent and tyrannical Capitol. In order to enforce its dominance, and as punishment for the uprising which occurred 74 years earlier, every year the districts must offer up two "tributes" to take part in the titular games: a fight to the death which is filmed for the entertainment of the Capitol, and as a reminder to the Districts that they live only because the Capitol allows them to do so. After her younger sister's name is drawn during the annual "Reaping" ceremony, Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) volunteers to take her place, and alongside her fellow tribute, Peeta Mellark (Josh Hutcherson) she must find a way to survive the Games, in the process setting in motion events that will drastically alter the world as they know it.