Hunger Games: Suzanne Collins announces this excellent news to fans

If fans of the Hunger Games franchise thought that Suzanne Collins’s work was definitively finished, that is not the case. After the literary trilogy released between 2008 and 2010, a prequel novel was released. published in May 2020 with The Ballad of the Serpent and the Songbird. The events take place 64 years before the original story and the story focuses on the character Coriolanus Snow. The novel benefits from a film adaptation in 2023 but the reviews are mixed. Today, fans of Hunger Games will be delighted to learn this excellent news has just been made official. 

The Suzanne Collins fans back Panem

After the release of the three volumes which make up the trilogy with Hunger Games, Catching Fire and Revolt< /em>, released respectively in 2008, 2009 and 2010, the work of the American writer Suzanne Collins is being adapted for the cinema with Jennifer Lawrence who plays the main character Katniss Everdeen. In 2020, the author created surprised fans by announcing that the dystopian universe would be back with a prequel novel centered on on President Snow. Title The Ballad of the Serpent and the Songbird, this opus also benefits from a big screen adaptation released last year. p>

If during the promotion of this prequel film the interviews suggested that the franchise would not go any further, we learned today some news which will inevitably please everyone. all Hunger Games fans. Indeed, the novelist and Scholastic Editions have just formalized the publication of a fifth novel entitled Sunrise on the Reaping. For the moment, no French title has been released. made official but it can be translated asLevé of sunshine on the harvest. 

A fifth Hunger Games novel about the origins of this character

The story will unfold 24 years before the events that readers witnessed. in the first novel. The publisher states that the novel “will revisit the world of Panem (…) on the morning of the Harvest of the 50th Hunger Games also known as the second edition of Atonement”. This edition is special because it is Haymitch Abernathy, who works as a mentor for the district tributes, who is the second winner of the Hunger Games from District Twelveand the only one officially alive before Katniss and Peeta won the 74th Hunger Games. In the cinema, the character is embodied by Woody Harrelson.

Although the four adaptations cinema novels have reported nearly $3 billion at the box office, no feature film project has been released. announced. To discover the novel Sunrise on the Reaping, you will have to be patient because its publication is only scheduled for March 18, 2025 in the English version. But other versions should be offered as with the previous prequel.