Rob will definitely not be starring in the Hunger Games!
“I woke up this morning and saw all these things about me being cast in The Hunger Games,” Pattinson tells USA TODAY. ”I was kind of curious for a second. So I called my agent.”
The response?
“My agent was like, ‘No,’ “ Pattinson reports.
“(My agent) was like no one’s going to offer you that part,” Pattinson says, breaking into a laugh. “I was like, thanks for the reassurance.”(source)
MY HEART D:
OMFG NO
JUST ONE SAD POST AFTER ANOTHER WHAT IS WRONG WITH MY DASH TODAY
D;
…not quite. AT takes place earth, after a war literally destroys part of the planet:
This war is called the Great Mushroom War, possibly because of the overuse of nuclear detonations (resulting in mushroom clouds). That’s canon. Popular fan theory seems to be that the huge amounts of radiation granted non-sentient things life, and mutated what was alive to what it appears as now.
Society in AT has basically restarted from zero. It seems to have reached a Medieval point at the time of the show. There’ still wreckage and refuse left over from human civilization (in the first few shots of the openingtheme alone, we a see post-apocalyptic wasteland that features a rat inside of a broken television and several undetonated nuclear bombs), but magic and spiritualism have generally overtaken reuse of technology.
tl;dr - coma fantasy - no; post-apocalyptic dystopia - yes
