Lionsgate Exploring Offers To Create 'Hunger Games' Theme Park Attraction

Briefly: This probably won't be exactly the theme park you're looking for — we presume there will be no killing — but everyone wants to be a victor, and theme park companies know it. Lionsgate announced today that it is considering a new theme park attraction based on The Hunger Games. In the same conference call that brought us the news of Ender's Game possibly migrating to television, Lionsgate CEO Jon Feltheimer said that the company has had offers in "two territories about potential theme park opportunities" based on The Hunger Games. We don't know what territories, or what parks.

Still, for certain types of film series, the theme park attraction can be a great money machine that goes beyond what disc media sales and other licensing can create. And so Feltheimer says "We're excited about those opportunities and we're pursuing them."

Maybe someone will design a great attraction that puts attendees not in the Games, but in the crowd during the Reaping, or just throws visitors into the poorest District areas, and has them try to feed a family. That would be a neat twist. Because otherwise a shiny theme park attraction seems like a really weird and even inappropriate way to keep The Hunger Games going.  [The Wrap]