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Author Suzanne Collins returns to the world of Panem.
Collins and his publisher Scholastic announced a new installment Thursday The Hunger Games The series will be released next year.
The new book – the fifth in the series – will be called Sunrise at Harvestand is slated to release on March 18, 2025.
Sunrise Takes place 24 years before the events of the first novel The Hunger Games, “The second quarter begins on the morning of the harvest of the fiftieth Hunger Games, also known as Gwell,” a scholastic. Notably, Haymitch Abernathy was the only winner from District 12 before Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark’s double win 24 years later. Woody Harrelson played Haymitch, who, like all victors, becomes a tribute guide from his district. The Hunger Games adaptations.
No movie rights have been announced to accompany the book, but all previous installments in the series have been adapted into movies by Lionsgate. The last film in the series, Ballad of songbirds and snakesIt grossed nearly $340 million at the box office last year.
The original four installments of the Jennifer Lawrence-starring series grossed nearly $3 billion at the box office.
“With Sunrise at Harvest, I was inspired by David Hume’s idea of tacit submission and, in his words, ‘the ease with which the many are ruled by the few,'” Collins said in a statement. “The story also helped me dive deeper into the use of propaganda and the power of those who control the story. The question is ‘True or not?’ Every day seems so stressful to me.”
“Suzanne Collins has done it again, bringing us back to the world of Panem to ask important questions about our own world,” said Ellie Berger, president of Scholastic Trade. “Sunrise at Harvest This is a remarkable book, bringing new complexity, perspective and revelations to a part of the Hunger Games story that readers want to know more about.”
