NEW YORK — Motivated by an 18th century Scottish thinker and the modern scourge of misinformation, Suzanne Collins is returning to the ravaged, write-up-apocalyptic land of Panem for a new “The Starvation Games” novel.
Scholastic introduced Thursday that “Sunrise on the Reaping,” the fifth quantity of Collins’ blockbuster dystopian collection, will be published March 18, 2025. The new guide begins with the reaping of the Fiftieth Starvation Video games, set 24 many years right before the original “Hunger Games” novel, which arrived out in 2008, and 40 many years soon after Collins’ most the latest ebook, “The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes.”
Collins has drawn on Greek mythology and the Roman gladiator games for her previously “Hunger Games” books. But for the future novel, she cites the Scottish Enlightenment philosopher David Hume.
“With ‘Sunrise on the Reaping,’ I was influenced by David Hume’s plan of implicit submission and, in his text, ‘the easiness with which the numerous are governed by the several,’” Collins claimed in a statement. “The story also lent itself to a deeper dive into the use of propaganda and the power of all those who handle the narrative. The dilemma ‘Real or not real?’ appears extra urgent to me every day.”
Movie rights have not still been announced. All 4 preceding guides have been adapted into movies, a multibillion greenback franchise for Lionsgate that featured Jennifer Lawrence portraying heroine Katniss Everdeen in the movie versions of “The Hunger Online games,” “Catching Fire” and “Mockingjay,” the very last of which came out in two installments.
The initially four “Hunger Games” guides have sold additional than 100 million copies and been translated into dozens of languages. Collins had seemingly finished the sequence after the 2010 publication of “Mockingjay,” crafting in 2015 that it was “time to move on to other lands.” But four yrs afterwards, she stunned viewers and the publishing world when she revealed she was functioning on what turned “The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes,” released in 2020 and set 64 a long time right before the to start with reserve.
The movie model of “Songbirds and Snakes,” starring Tom Blyth and Rachel Zegler, came out final yr.
