Hunger Games movies can't exist without the books.
Summary SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes will avoid a common franchise mistake. Based on the novel of the same name by Suzanne Collins, the upcoming Hunger Games prequel follows the story of the 10th Hunger Games.
Producer Nina Jacobson explains to Polygon how The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes will eschew one major issue with franchises. According to her, there can be no Hunger Games movies without author Suzanne Collins writing another book. As a result, future Hunger Games movies will avoid glomming onto a “fan favorite” character for a spinoff.
You could have gone with a fan favorite [character] -- 'Let's do Haymitch's story! Or do Finnick's games! -- but that would be doing it to do it. If [Hunger Games author Suzanne Collins] had a story in this world with something she wanted to talk about, something to explore, then great. But if not, better to leave a franchise as something people feel fondly about rather than crank out a sequel for the sake of a sequel.
Why The Hunger Games Is Right Not to Create Endless Spinoffs Like the original movies, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes is based on a Collins novel prequel of the same name. Released in 2020, the prequel book was the first new Hunger Games book in over a full decade after the trilogy ended with Mockingjay in 2010. But long before the prequel book had dropped, Lionsgate had plans for spinoffs that would expand the Hunger Games universe, with reports tracing back to 2017.
However, breaking The Hunger Games down to that level could undermine what the books and movies are about. As much as the works follow Katniss’ heroic rise, they act as political parables, using the Capitol and the thirteen districts as a dystopian warning of how far injustice could go if left unchecked. Spending so many years with this world-building, Collins is the best creative mind to understand these dynamics and what stories need to be told to portray this narrative.
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