Not only are fans of The Hunger Games getting an all-new novel from Suzanne Collins in 2025, but that book will be a movie soon after. Lionsgate announced today that they are already in development on a new Hunger Games movie based on The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping. The book will follow the events of The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes, which adapted into a film in 2023 with Rachel Zegler in the lead role.
"With Sunrise on the Reaping, I was inspired by David Hume's idea of implicit submission and, in his words, 'the easiness with which the many are governed by the few,'" Collins said in a statement."The story also lent itself to a deeper dive into the use of propaganda and the power of those who control the narrative. The question 'Real or not real?' seems more pressing to me every day.
According to the statement from Lionsgate,"The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping will revisit the world of Panem 24 years before the events ofThe Hunger Games, starting on the morning of the reaping of the 50th Hunger Games, also known as the Second Quarter Quell."