A new Hunger Games novel is on the way from author Suzanne Collins and, Lionsage has already acquired the movie rights. Francis Lawrence, who directed Catching Fire, Mockingjay – Part 1, Mockingjay – Part 2, and The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, is in talks to helm the adaptation.
The new book, titled Sunrise on the Reaping, will take place 40 years after The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, which was adapted into a movie starring Rachel Zegler and Tom Blyth last year. As that story follows the 10th annual Hunger Games, Sunrise on the Reaping will therefore take us forward to the 50th edition of the Games – which happens to have been won by none other than Haymitch Abernathy, Katniss and Peeta's mentor. He was played by Woody Harrelson, opposite Jennifer Lawrence's Katniss and Josh Hutcherson's Peeta, in the original quartet of movies.
