{"id":942491,"date":"2026-10-22T20:38:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T20:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/942491\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T20:38:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T20:38:11","slug":"hunger-games-sunrise-on-the-reaping-used-ai-for-adr-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/942491\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping’ Used AI for ADR Testing"},"content":{"rendered":"

AI<\/a> is continuing to be implemented in the post-production stages of studio films, though \u201cHunger Games\u201d franchise producer Nina Jacobson<\/a> still views it as a \u201ctool for artists\u201d and \u201cnot a substitute\u201d for them. <\/p>\n

During a conversation with IndieWire editor-in-chief Brent Lang at IndieWire\u2019s Future of Filmmaking<\/a> Summit in Los Angeles Jacobson said the team used AI approximations of actors to test out new line readings for the upcoming prequel \u201cSunrise on the Reaping.\u201d Those lines would then be recorded with the cast in traditional automated dialogue replacement process.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe just finished [post-production], fairly recently, on \u2018Sunrise on the Reaping.\u2019 <\/a>We used [AI] very specifically as a tool \u2014 within production, within post-production \u2014 while, at the same time, never using it to ever replace any of our artists or anything you see onscreen,\u201d Jacobson said. \u201cWhen you have ADR you want try out, you used to either have the editor getting in there with the lines you wanted \u2026 Just for something you\u2019re trying out that you might not even keep. [AI] is a great tool to use ADR.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Jacobson went on to explain how the technology has relatively limited applications for her, none of which find their way onto the screen.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey can duplicate a voice. You can have the thing that you want to go get, or do a slug that actually looks like what you want \u2026 But we would still never use it because it\u2019s not our actors,\u201d she continued. \u201cWe\u2019d go to our writer for the dialogue. I don\u2019t ask Claude, \u2018What should they say?\u2019 I don\u2019t ask Claude to finish the movie for us. But as a tool within production [and] within post-production that advances your work, and ultimately gets you to a better creative outcome, it\u2019s crazy not to make use of the tool that the entire world now seems to be hinging upon.\u201d<\/p>\n

The prequel \u201cSunrise on the Reaping,\u201d in theaters from Lionsgate on November 20, is the sixth film adaptation of Suzanne Collins\u2019 popular young adult books series. The movie franchise first launched in 2012, with three additional entries produced quickly in the immediate years. Lionsgate revived the property in 2023 with the prequel \u201cThe Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes,\u201d exploring the early politicking of the dystopian world of Panem and how the tyrant President Snow came to power.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t make the movies unless [Collins] writes a book. We\u2019re not trying to just milk this title,\u201d Jacobson said when asked about the franchise\u2019s longevity. \u201cThey speak so much to the way that we live now and how we are living. The last one was really about the allure of authoritarianism. Why do we embrace it as a political system? Why are people drawn to it? \u2026 This one is about resistance: the cost of [it, and] the fact that just because something is a certain way today does not mean it always will be. You cannot predict the future based on the status quo.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYoung people are growing up at a time where it seems impossible that we would ever be able to address climate change or the recession in democracy that we\u2019ve seen across the globe, and yet it is that propaganda that kind of keeps you in that place of believing there\u2019s nothing I can do to make a difference,\u201d Jacobson continued. \u201cSometimes you won\u2019t see the consequences of your resistance [in] four years, or maybe even in your lifetime. But it still adds up. \u2026 Whether you\u2019ve seen none of the movies or all of them, it feels very much like a movie about the times we live in.\u201d<\/p>\n

Along with Jacobson\u2019s \u201cHunger Games\u201d talk, the producer touched on other projects from her film production company Color Force, including the coming \u201cDirty Dancing\u201d sequel starring Jennifer Grey and HBO\u2019s \u201cCrazy Rich Asians\u201d series. <\/a>IndieWire\u2019s Future of Filmmaking Summit<\/a> also included a keynote by directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller, diving into the production of their sci-fi blockbuster \u201cProject Hail Mary,\u201d and a one-on-one with Bill Hader on what he learned making his upcoming feature debut \u201cThey Know.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

Watch the complete conversation with Jacobson in the video above.<\/p>\n

IndieWire Future of Filmmaking 2026 Summit is presented by AT&T Untold Stories, an impactful multi-year collaboration between AT&T and Tribeca Festival that awards $1.2 million dollars, mentorship, and comprehensive support to the next generation of filmmakers looking to bring their films to the big screen. For more information, visit here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AI is continuing to be implemented in the post-production stages of studio films, though \u201cHunger Games\u201d franchise producer…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":942492,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[62,49,48,75,322724,32153,337,322725,34683,23771],"class_list":["post-942491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-ai","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-fof-summit","tag-future-of-filmmaking","tag-movies","tag-nina-jacobson","tag-the-hunger-games","tag-the-hunger-games-sunrise-on-the-reaping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=942491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/942492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=942491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=942491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=942491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}