As we reported before (most recently in December last year) there was talk of a Hunger Games prequel series (here) and now we have official news that yes, it’s happening.
After author Suzanne Collins Hunger Games book trilogy was adapted into four movies for Lionsgate, there was always talk of the franchise still having legs and now the author’s prequel novel, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, is set for the big screen treatment too.
Lionsgate is bringing together the team who made the franchise a big deal previously to try to capture the same lightning in a bottle.
Catching Fire and Mockingjay Part 1 and Part 2 director Francis Lawrence will helm the new movie while the story will be penned by Little Miss Sunshine and Toy Story 3’s Michael Arndt who wrote the Catching Fire script under a pseudonym.
The new novel is due on shelves – or, as is the case now, online – on May 19th and is set in the early days of Coriolanus Snow, an 18-year-old “handsome and charming, and though the Snow family has fallen on hard times, he sees a chance for a change in his fortunes when he is chosen to be a mentor for the Tenth Hunger Games… only to have his elation dashed when he is assigned to mentor the girl tribute from impoverished District 12.”
Lionsgate chairman Gropu Joe Drake said: “Suzanne’s new book has been worth the wait. It offers everything fans could hope for and expect from The Hunger Games while also breaking new ground and introducing an entirely new canvas of characters. The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes is creatively thrilling and takes this world to complex new dimensions that open up amazing cinematic possibilities. We’re thrilled to reunite this filmmaking team with this very unique franchise, and we can’t wait to begin production.”
It looks like the future of the Hunger Games, well, technically the past, is alive and very well.
Source: Collider
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