Probably the most scandalous and messy behind-the-scenes drama found within the production of Catching Fire came from the recasting of Buttercup. There were dark, dark secrets swept under the rug by Lionsgate – so terrible that we swore never to tell – about the rivalry between the two cats who fought viciously over the role of Buttercup.

The tabbyloids published graphic photos of an altercation between the two felines in Caterwaul Magazine. Both cats denied the allocations, but multiple pictures of the alter”cat”ion have surfaced captured by the Cataratzzi. When a close friend of THG Buttercup, Crookshanks, the star of the Harry Potter Series, was interviewed by The Cat’s Meow, she was quoted as saying, ”These rumors are rubbish. It’s just kitty litter!”

What do you think really happened? Whatever the case, Francis Lawrence does have his own interpretation of the story:

io9: One of the first big changes I noticed from Hunger Games toCatching Fire was that you recast the cat. Why did you recast the cat?

Francis Lawrence: You know what that was actually, and I was happy to do it, that was a request from Nina the producer and Suzanne the author. That they thought the cat from the first movie was not the way he was described in the book. And that had annoyed a bunch of fans, and things like that. But it also just kind of bothered them that Buttercup was not a black and white cat. So I was happy to get one that felt like the Buttercup of the book.

It’s funny because now people are split. Some people think we should have continued on with what happened in the first movie. And some people are really happy. You never win.