Speaking to MTV over the weekend, The Hunger Games director Gary Ross said that Catching Fire will “look and feel” different from his first HG film.

Ross gets into surprising depth about his early ideas for the sequel:

Ross has some idea of what the next Games will look like. “The arena in the second book is tropical and the arena in [the first] book is forests, so that in and of itself will make for a different wardrobe on the part of the crew,” he explained.

“In terms of the cinematic differences in the way I might shoot the movie, I shot this in a very specific way that’s very different than most franchises are shot, obviously, and that had a lot to do with the urgency of what’s going on and Katniss’ point of view,” he continued. “I have some ideas about how to do ‘Catching Fire’ slightly differently, but I don’t want to share them yet. Not because I’m being evasive, but just because they’re not fully baked. But yes, I think it will look and feel slightly different from the first.”

Rumors over the past month have suggested that Catching Fire will shoot in Hawaii, as well as in North Carolina (the latter is exclusively where Hunger Games was filmed).