The new Hunger Games book: Sunrise on the Harvest is coming in 2025

The Hunger Games: Song of Songbirds and Snakes.

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Writer Suzanne Collins returns to the world of Panem.

Collins and her publisher Scholastic announced Thursday the release of a new installment of the book hunger Games The series will be released next year.

The new book – the fifth in the series – will be called Sunrise on harvestIt is scheduled to be released on March 18, 2025.

sunrise Its events will take place 24 years before the events of the first novel hunger Games“Starting on the morning of the 50th Hunger Games reap, also known as the second quarter funnel,” according to Scholastic. These games are noteworthy given that the victor was Haymitch Abernathy, the only winner from District 12 before Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark’s double victory 24 years later. Haymitch, who like all the victors became an honored guide from his neighborhood, was played by Woody Harrelson in the film. hunger Games Quotations.

Film rights were not announced simultaneously with the book, but all previous entries in the series have been adapted into feature films by Lionsgate. The last film in the series, Song of songbirds and snakesWhich grossed nearly $340 million at the box office last year.

The original four parts of the series, starring Jennifer Lawrence, grossed nearly $3 billion at the box office.

“with Sunrise on harvest“I was inspired by David Hume’s idea of ​​implicit subjugation and, in his words, ‘the ease with which the many are governed by the few,’” Collins said in a statement. “The story also presented an opportunity to delve more deeply into the use of propaganda and the power of those who control the narrative. The question “Real or not real?” “It seems more urgent to me every day.”

“Susan Collins has done it again, bringing us back to the world of Panem to ask us important questions about our own world,” added Eli Berger, President of Scholastic Trade. “Sunrise on harvest “It is a fascinating book, bringing complexity, perspective and new revelations to a part of the Hunger Games story that readers are eager to know more about.”