https://variety.com/2019/film/news/l...ie-1203245355/

"Lionsgate has begun working on a “Hunger Games” prequel movie, based on a forthcoming novel from writer Suzanne Collins.

The still-untitled novel will be released by Scholastic and set 64 years before the start of the original “Hunger Games” novels.

With this book, I wanted to explore the state of nature, who we are, and what we perceive is required for our survival,” Collins said in a statement. “The reconstruction period ten years after the war, commonly referred to as the Dark Days — as the country of Panem struggles back to its feet — provides fertile ground for characters to grapple with these questions and thereby define their views of humanity.

The prequel movie project is in the early stages without cast, director of screenwriter on board."