UPDATE: Apparently the studio didn’t like people seeing Ian Joyner’s concept art that they didn’t use. His gallery of the images now reads: “We had a request from the studio to not show this work at this time. I will update this page if/when things change.” Given that the io9 article has had over 33K views, and the art is still there for viewing/fuskering [update 5/26: io9 article now deleted] and isn’t going to just disappear from the internet, I’m not sure what point they are making besides strong-arming an artist. Chalk it up as another incident that shows how out of touch with reality Hollywood is.
Original post from before the art was taken down:
Unused Hunger Games concept art would have made the final arena scenes better
In my review of The Hunger Games film, I wrote that I was a bit disappointed with the sanitization of, and seemingly unnecessary changes to, the end scenes in the arena. The menacing yet generic look of the canine muttations in the movie was an especially disappointing shift from the book for me because it removes an element of how nasty in terms of psychological warfare the Capitol is, and also how technologically sophisticated. So, I’m even more disappointed to find (via io9) that the original film artwork actually incorporated the dead tribute look in pretty awesome fashion. Here’s a few pics of Ian Joyner’s concept art for the film.
Thresh-muttation:
two men enter . . . 
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