‘The Hunger Games’ Is Getting A Prequel Movie

The fourth and closing (for now) Hunger Games movie, Mockingjay – Part 2, solely got here out 4 years in the past. But as a result of the collection made practically $three billion on the field workplace, inserting it within the top-20 of highest-grossing cinematic franchises ever, a prequel film is already into consideration. Hunger Games creator Suzanne Collins introduced on Monday that she’s engaged on a brand new guide set in the course of the “Dark Days,” 64 years earlier than Katniss volunteered as tribute.

“I wanted to explore the state of nature, who we are and what we perceive is required for our survival,” she mentioned in an announcement. “The reconstruction period 10 years after the war, commonly referred to as the Dark Days — as the country of Panem struggles back to its feet — provides fertile ground for characters to grapple with these questions and thereby define their views of humanity.”

The still-untitled guide doesn’t come out till 2020, however Collins is already in discussions with Lionsgate on a possible film. “As the proud house of the Hunger Games motion pictures, we are able to hardly watch for Suzanne’s subsequent guide to be printed. We’ve been speaking along with her in the course of the writing course of and we look ahead to persevering with to work carefully along with her on the film,” Joe Drake, chairman of the Lionsgate Motion Picture Group, mentioned Monday, in keeping with the Hollywood Reporter. Obviously, Jennifer Lawrence gained’t be within the film, however after the flat finales to each Hunger Games and X-Men, she may use time away from franchise filmmaking. So it’s no marvel the Oscar winner is ending her hiatus with a sure-to-be-challenging (and glowingly reviewed) A24 film.

The whole movie ought to value lower than Dark Phoenix‘s blue make-up price range.

(Via Hollywood Reporter)