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Further details released for Hunger Games sequel

By April 24, 2020Adaptations, News

A Hunger Games sequel was announced in January and we now have further details on The Ballard of Songbirds and Snakes.

As we already know, the story will be set decades before the events of the original book series, focussing on time after the “dark days”- a failed rebellion. Hunger Games author Suzanne Collins explained how this setting “provides fertile ground for characters to grapple with these questions and thereby define their views of humanity.” Set 64 years before the events of the trilogy, the story follows Coriolanus Snow, a teenager at this point, and begins on the morning of the reaping of the tenth Hunger Games.

The book comes to us 12 years after the first instalment in the Hunger Games series was published, and will arrive on 19th of May.

President Snow in The Hunger Games

Lionsgate have announced the director as filmmaker Francis Lawrence (Catching Fire, Mockingjay Part 1 & 2) with author Suzanne Collins as an executive producer. Collins will also adapt the screenplay along with co-screenwriter Michael Arndt.

“Lionsgate has always been the cinematic home of The Hunger Games, and I’m delighted to be returning to them with this new book,” Collins said in a statement. “From the beginning, they have treated the source material with great respect, honouring the thematic and narrative elements of the story, and assembling an incredible team both in front of and behind the camera. It’s such a pleasure to be reuniting with Nina, Francis, and Michael to adapt the novel to the screen, and having them share their remarkable talents, once again, with the world of Panem. I look forward to collaborating with them and all at Lionsgate as we bring The Ballad of Songbirds And Snakes to theatres worldwide.”

No release date has been announced for the movie yet – and we will have to wait and see if production schedules are impacted by the current COVID19 pandemic.

On the up-side, fans of Hunger Gamers can find out everything before watching the new movie when the novel is released in May.

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