All We Know About the New ‘Hunger Games’ Book And Movie Coming Soon

All We Know About the New ‘Hunger Games’ Book And Movie Coming Soon After the release of ‘The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes,’ it was clear that fans are still hungry for more material set within the world of ‘The Hunger Games.’

To ease that hunger, Suzanne Collins has decided to return with a fifth book titled ‘Sunrise on the Reaping.’ it will be set in the same post-apocalyptic civilization known as Panem.
Here’s what we know so far.

When Will The Fifth Book In the ‘Hunger Games’ Franchise Be Published

Scholastic announced on Thursday, June 6, that a fifth volume of Collins’ blockbuster dystopian series, will hit the shelves come March 18, 2025.

‘Sunrise on the Reaping’ will take place 24 years before the original ‘Hunger Games,’ which first debuted in 2008, with the reaping of the fiftieth hunger games. This places it 40 years after Collins’ most recent book, ‘The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes.’

On that same Thursday, Lionsgate, which has produced the first four books in the franchise, announced that ‘Sunrise On The Reaping’ will premiere in theaters on Nov. 26, 2026.

Francis Lawrence, who has directed all but the very first ‘Hunger Games,’ will return in his role as director.

What Will the Upcoming ‘Hunger Games’ Book, ‘Sunrise On The Reaping’ And Movie Be About

After the incredible success of the first four ‘Hunger Games’ books, Collins announced that it was “time to move on to other lands,” signalling that 2010’s ‘Mockingjay’ is meant to be the last book set in Panem.

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However, in 2019, she surprised fans by revealing that she has started work on another book focusing on Panem’s Hunger Games.

In 2020, she released ‘The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes,’ which opens 64 years before the first book.

According to Suzanne Collins, she was inspired to pen ‘Sunrise on the Reaping’ by an 18th century Scottish philosopher and the modern uprise of misinformation.

“With ‘Sunrise on the Reaping,’ I was inspired by David Hume’s idea of implicit submission and, in his words, ‘the easiness with which the many are governed by the few,’” Collins said in a statement. “The story also lent itself to a deeper dive into the use of propaganda and the power of those who control the narrative. The question ‘Real or not real?’ seems more pressing to me every day.”

Praising Collins’ capability as a storyteller, Lionsgate chair Adam Fogelson said in a statement: “Suzanne Collins is a master storyteller and our creative north star. We couldn’t be more fortunate than to be guided and trusted by a collaborator whose talent and imagination are so consistently brilliant.”

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