True or not actual? New ‘Hunger Games’ ebook, movie prequel will inform Haymitch’s story

Let the games commence: Suzanne Collins announced Thursday that a new “Hunger Games” ebook is on its way, to be adopted by a new film.

The new reserve, “Sunrise on the Reaping,” will be the fifth installment in the popular dystopian collection. Scholastic is established to publish the novel on March 18, 2025.

Collins explained she meditated on the writings of David Hume, an 18th century Scottish philosopher known for his skepticism, as she wrote the book.

“With ‘Sunrise on the Reaping,’ I was encouraged by David Hume’s thought of implicit submission and, in his words, ‘the easiness with which the lots of are ruled by the number of,’” she mentioned in a assertion. “The story also lent itself to a further dive into the use of propaganda and the power of individuals who handle the narrative. The problem ‘Real or not actual?’ appears far more pressing to me every single day.”

Propaganda themes are not uncommon in the “Hunger Games” franchise, which at first adopted teenage Katniss Everdeen as she reluctantly led a revolution against the tyrannical Panem authorities and its president, Coriolanus Snow.

“Sunrise on the Reaping” will choose position 24 years prior to the authentic sequence, starting up on the early morning of the 50th Starvation Video games — infamously recognized as the Next Quarter Quell, which experienced double the amount of tributes and brought Haymitch Abernathy, who would later on be Katniss’ mentor, into the spotlight.

Several hours right after the ebook announcement, Lionsgate — the studio guiding the franchise — reported the “Sunrise on the Reaping” adaptation will be produced Nov. 20, 2026.

No casting bulletins have been shared director Francis Lawrence is in talks to return to the franchise, in accordance to Lionsgate.

In 2020, Collins launched the prequel “The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes,” which normally takes location 64 years ahead of the authentic sequence. A movie adaptation starring Rachel Zegler as protagonist Lucy Gray Baird and Tom Blyth as Coriolanus Snow was launched past November and made a lot more than $300 million globally.

Admirers — including Zegler herself, who at the time tweeted “girls don’t want boys. ladies want suzanne collins to launch a haymitch abernathy origin trilogy” — have been clamoring for a Haymitch-centric prequel.

On Thursday, the actor quipped: “you’re welcome men.”

The 5-installment “Hungers Games” movie franchise has collectively grossed additional than $3.3 billion, Lionsgate said. The initially four films starred Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss and Woody Harrelson as Haymitch.