The new Hunger Games book will be released next month – and a movie version is set to follow. 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 on 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 hit movies starring 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 Toy Story 3 and one of the writers of the adaptation of Catching