NEW YORK – The next “Hunger Games” book is coming out next month, and a movie version is now being planned.
Lionsgate is working on an adaptation of Suzanne Collins' “The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes,” a prequel to her three “Hunger Games” novels that will be released May 19.
Collins' Dystopian series, which includes “The Hunger Games,” “Catching Fire” and “Mockingjay," has sold tens of millions copies worldwide and is the basis for four Lionsgate movies that earned nearly $3 billion and starred Jennifer Lawrence as the heroine Katniss Everdeen.
For the new movie, Collins will serve as executive producer and write the film's treatment. The screenplay will be by Michael Arndt, an Oscar winner for “Little Miss Sunshine,” a nominee for