New Hunger Games Movie Announced

Will be based on new unreleased Book

The Ballad Of Songbirds And Snakes Movie Announced

So, I guess it's been made official, there will be another Hunger Games film coming out. This movie will follow the story line for the upcoming book, The Ballad Of Songbirds And Snakes. Longtime Hunger Games director, Francis Lawrence, will return to the Director chair for this installment. The author of the book series, Susan Collins seems like she'll be taking up a Producer roll.
It's a bit unusual that (at the time this was written) the book hasn't been released yet. The studio must feel awful confident about the story and the franchise since it's been a few years since it wrapped.
The basic story will follow President Snow in his younger years before he rose to power, during the 10th Hunger Games as he mentors a tribute from District 12.
I am pretty excited about the book and movie, but I'm a little cautious going into this. I read The Hunger Game series in my younger teen years and loved the franchise. I hope Susan Collins can recapture that spark which drove so many of our interests all those years ago.
For those of you who don't remember, or were to young at the time, The Hunger Games Franchise was the series that kicked off the YA Dystopian trend. For a while, kid and teen literature was driving pop culture. It started with Harry Potter as it's foundation, then for kids it moved to the Percy Jackson series. For teens it went the way of Twilight for better or worse. Then along came The Hunger Games which kept the YA heart pumping for another couple of years.
Times have changed since the heydays of this franchises popularity. I'm wondering if it will bounce back, or drift into obscurity. I hope the book and movie will be good. I would love to see more material in this Universe. Call it Nostalgia, but I'm excited.

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