10 Things To Expect From The Hunger Games: Mockingjay

6. Philip Seymour Hoffman: Real & Digital

It sent shockwaves around Hollywood when Philip Seymour Hoffman was found dead earlier this year. If there's one thing critics seem to agree on, it's that Hoffman's performances always set the standard, and joining The Hunger Games as Head Gamemaker Plutarch Heavensbee was one of the great additions for the series. Hoffman perfectly conveyed Plutarch's questionable morality, and will undoubtedly be highly commended in Mockingjay as one of his final performances. One thing that has caused a lot of intrigue is that he will be "digitally recreated" to complete one major scene in Mockingjay - Part 2. Things like Ellen Page's turn in Beyond: Two Souls prove that CGI acting can be done, and (in pictures at least) CGI humans are more sophisticated than ever. The chief anxiety is whether a computer can create the depth of emotion that an actor with the skill of Hoffman would convey, especially as the scene in question is said to be critical to the character. Has technology moved on enough to make the CGI more convincing than Oliver Reed's computer enhanced final moments in Gladiator 14 years ago?