A decade or so after the genre petered out, we may be entering a young adult renaissance. The Hunger Games is getting a second wind with The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes and the upcoming Sunrise on the Reaping. HBO is restarting the entire Harry Potter saga from scratch as a prestige TV series. Even Percy Jackson is enjoying a new lease of life thanks to a Disney+ series.
Netflix is betting big on this trend with an eight-movie plan to adapt C.S. Lewis’ Chronicles of Narnia, which was last seen as an unfinished Disney movie series. The new movies have already secured a popular director and a couple of stars, and now the cast is really coming together with a unique take on the series’ villain.
