Vivid and early this morning, the AP reported that Suzanne Collins was at work on a brand new “Starvation Video games” novel, “The Starvation Video games: Dawn on the Reaping.” And positive sufficient, Lionsgate is already at work on turning that e book into one other new “Starvation Video games” film.
The movie adaptation of “Dawn on the Reaping” might be launched by Lionsgate on November 20, 2026, after Collins’ e book publishes from Scholastic on March 18, 2025.
And the entire crew is again to shepherd this new “Starvation Video games” film, together with franchise producer Nina Jacobson and her accomplice Brad Simpson for his or her Coloration Power banner, and Francis Lawrence, who has directed every movie since “Catching Hearth,” is in talks to return to this one as properly. No solid has been introduced.
“Dawn on the Reaping” visits Panem throughout the fiftieth Starvation Video games, in order that’s 24 years earlier than the occasions of the unique trilogy of books, and about 40 years after the occasions of the newest movie from final 12 months, “The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes.”
Plot particulars haven’t been revealed, however followers of the franchise will know the lore that the fiftieth Starvation Video games was often called the “Second Quarter Quell.” In these video games, the districts needed to submit twice as many tributes as standard, so 4 youngsters as a substitute of simply two. The winner of these video games (spoiler) was Haymitch Abernathy from District 12, who’s performed by Woody Harrelson within the unique trilogy of movies.
“Suzanne Collins is a grasp storyteller and our inventive north star,” Lionsgate Movement Image Group chair Adam Fogelson mentioned in an announcement. “We couldn’t be extra lucky than to be guided and trusted by a collaborator whose expertise and creativeness are so constantly good. We all know ‘Starvation Video games’ followers worldwide might be spellbound by the place Suzanne has targeted this subsequent extraordinary story. The Second Quarter Quell is known and looms giant over the historical past of the Video games, even into the time of Katniss Everdeen a quarter-century later. Like followers across the globe, we’re eagerly anticipating this thrilling return to Panem.”
“From the start, Lionsgate has been a beautiful dwelling and accomplice for the ‘Starvation Video games’ franchise, and I’m very excited to be collaborating with Adam and the crew as we deliver this subsequent story to theaters in 2026,” Collins mentioned in an announcement.
Meredith Wieck and Scott O’Brien will oversee the manufacturing on behalf of the studio. Patricia Laucella and Phil Strina oversaw the rights for the e book for Lionsgate. Collins was represented by Jason Dravis from The Dravis Company and Diane Golden and Sarah Lerner from the legislation agency Katz Golden Lerner LLP.
“The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes” starred Tom Blyth, Rachel Zegler, Viola Davis, and Peter Dinklage, and the movie grossed $337 million worldwide, properly beneath what the unique movies made, however nonetheless a powerful displaying for a prequel movie.