According to Variety, Lionsgate hinted last year that the story might not have ended with the $337 million movie office success of The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, a Hunger Games prequel.
A waiver permitting cast members to promote The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, which takes place 64 years before the Jennifer Lawrence movie and chronicles the ascent of Coriolanus Snow, the dictatorial president of Panem, had been provided.
“The movie created a limitless array of opportunities for Suzanne to pursue, and for Lionsgate to accompany her,” stated Adam Fogelson, the head of the company’s motion picture division, back then.
In the meantime, Sunrise on the Reaping, the author Suzanne Collins’ next book, is being written and will be published in 2025.
November 20, 2026 is when the book’s cinematic adaptation opens in theaters.
A full 24 years before to the events of the Hunger Games epic, Panem will be revisited in The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping.
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“Our creative north star, Suzanne Collins, is a master storyteller,” a statement from Fogelson read.
Being led and trusted by a collaborator with such continuously exceptional talent and inventiveness is truly a blessing. The Second Quarter Quell is famous and has a significant impact on the history of the Games, extending 25 years after Katniss Everdeen’s time,” he continued.
It is important to note that the Hunger Games movie series has made a profit of over $3.3 billion at the global box office.