Get excited, 'Hunger Games' fans, a new novel and a new film are coming! Author Suzanne Collins and her publisher Scholastic revealed early Thursday morning that the fifth book in the 'The Hunger Games' series titled 'Sunrise on the Reaping' will be released on March 18th, 2025. Now, Lionsgate is unveiling plans for a film based on the novel! The story will take place 24 years before the events of the first 'Hunger Games' novel, "starting on the morning of the reaping of the Fiftieth Hunger Games, also known as the Second Quarter Quell."
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00:00Get excited, Hunger Games fans! A new novel and a new film are coming!
00:05Author Suzanne Collins and her publisher Scholastic revealed early Thursday morning
00:09that the fifth book in the series, titled The Hunger Games Sunrise on the Reaping,
00:13will be released on March 18, 2025. Now, Lionsgate is unveiling plans for a film
00:18based on the novel. The screen adaptation has Francis Lawrence in talks to direct.
00:23He's directed four previous Hunger Games films, Catching Fire, Mockingjay Part 1,
00:28Mockingjay Part 2, and the most recent movie in the series, last year's The Ballad of Songbirds
00:33and Snakes, which grossed nearly $340 million at the box office. At the November 2023 premiere
00:39of that film, Lawrence said this when asked about Collins writing more Hunger Games books.
00:44I would love for her to write more. I don't know if she needs to write more. I mean,
00:47part of what's great about Suzanne is Suzanne, you know, gets inspired and comes up with like
00:53a thematic idea and then builds the stories around that. And so if she gets inspired,
00:58I'd be super excited to jump back in and do something with her again.
01:01The original four installments in the film franchise,
01:04starring Jennifer Lawrence, earned nearly $3 billion at the box office.
01:08As for Sunrise on the Reaping, the story will take place 24 years before the events of the
01:13first Hunger Games novel, starting on the morning of the reaping of the 50th Hunger Games,
01:18also known as the second quarter quell. Those games are noteworthy given that the
01:22victor was Hamish Abernathy, who was played by Woody Harrelson in the Hunger Games movies.
01:27There's no word yet on casting for the film,
01:29but Lionsgate is set a wide theatrical release on November 20, 2026.
01:33For more on this story, head to THR.com. For The Hollywood Reporter News, I'm Tiffany Taylor.