Writer Suzanne Collins is returning to the world of Panem.
Collins and her writer Scholastic on Thursday introduced {that a} new installment in The Starvation Video games sequence might be launched subsequent yr.
The brand new guide — the fifth within the sequence — might be known as Dawn on the Reaping, and is ready for launch March 18, 2025.
Dawn will happen 24 years earlier than the occasions of the primary novel The Starvation Video games, “beginning on the morning of the reaping of the Fiftieth Starvation Video games, also called the Second Quarter Quell,” per Scholastic.
No movie rights had been introduced together with the guide, however all the earlier installments within the sequence have been tailored into function movies by Lionsgate. The final movie within the sequence, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, grossed almost $340 million on the field workplace final yr.
The unique 4 installments of the sequence, starring Jennifer Lawrence, earned almost $3 billion on the field workplace.
“With Dawn on the Reaping, I used to be impressed by David Hume’s thought of implicit submission and, in his phrases, ‘the easiness with which the various are ruled by the few,’” Collins stated in a press release. “The story additionally lent itself to a deeper dive into the usage of propaganda and the facility of those that management the narrative. The query ‘Actual or not actual?’ appears extra urgent to me daily.”
“Suzanne Collins has completed it once more, bringing us again to the world of Panem to be able to ask us vital questions on our personal world,” added Ellie Berger, president of Scholastic Commerce. “Dawn on the Reaping is a outstanding guide, bringing new complexity, perspective, and revelations to a chunk of the Starvation Video games story that readers have longed to know extra about.”