The Hunger Games Franchise Announces New Novel and Film
The young adult dystopian series The Hunger Games announced the release of a fourth novel and film adaptation.
Suzanne Collins surprised fans with her new novel, Sunrise on the Reaping, late last week. The fourth novel in The Hunger Games installment will be released on March 18, 2025. Soon after, news spread that the corresponding film adaptation, produced by Lionsgate, would hit theatres on November 20, 2026.
Sunrise on the Reaping reportedly takes place 24 years before the original Hunger Games novel, this time following Haymitch Abernathy’s story. In the first three novels, Haymitch, who was Katniss and Peeta’s mentor, is presented as an alcoholic trying to forget his past; but, viewers are excited to dive into his life and see how he came to be the character we currently know.
The story will focus on young Haymitch’s perspective as he courses through his victory in the Fiftieth Hunger Games. In efforts to remind the people of Panem why the games started, for Second Quarter Quell Present Snow enforces the selection of two boys and girls from each district. The stakes are higher, tensions rise, and readers are left wondering how Haymitch will survive.
A new ‘HUNGER GAMES’ movie based on the upcoming book is already in the works.
— DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm) June 6, 2024
The story follows the Second Quarter Quell, won by Haymitch.
In theaters on November 20, 2026. pic.twitter.com/8J6OQKlxDr
Collins is a New York Times Best-Seller for her novels The Hunger Games, Catching Fire, Mockingjay, and Ballad of Song Birds and Snakes. The four film adaptations have built a “multibillion-dollar franchise for Lionsgate.”
Selling more than 100 million copies, The Hunger Games novel has been translated into dozens of languages for readers worldwide to enjoy. Collins ended the series in 2010 after Mockingjay, the final installment, stating it was “time to move on to other lands.”
In 2014, the author revealed that she would publish The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. Six years later, the project was officially published, taking place 64 years before the first book, following the tenth Hunger Games.
suzanne collins could write a book about every single hunger games and i’d read them all without hesitation
— mau (@villainsaints) June 6, 2024
Collins explains that Sunrise on the Reaping was “inspired by David Hume’s idea of implicit submission,” and dives deeper “into the use of propaganda and the power of those who control the narrative.”
Fans are overjoyed with the double announcement in one day, sharing on social media and emphasizing their excitement.
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— ʚɞ (@daenyrha) June 6, 2024
Keep up with The Hunger Games’ X account to follow updates leading up to the release.
