Next “Hunger Games” To Film This Year

Filmmaker Francis Lawrence has confirmed that filming on the next “The Hunger Games” movie is set to commence later this year.

Out promoting the forthcoming 4K UHD disc release of 2005’s Constantine, the filmmaker confirms that the project is already deep into pre-production. The book on which it’s based, “Sunrise on the Reaping,” doesn’t hit stores until next month.

Both the new film and Suzanne Collins’ new book will tell the story of Haymitch Abernathy, the District 12 Hunger Games victor who served as mentor to Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) in the original books. Woody Harrelson played the character in the original films.

Speaking with Collider, Lawrence shared new details about the project’s timetable:

“I’m shooting that this year. So we’ve actually just sort of started prep. The book comes out mid-March. We’ve sort of got a research phase of prep. After London, I’m going to go on a scout, and then we start prepping in April, and we shoot this year.

I’m really, really excited for it. It’s always great to go back and to work with Nina [Jacobson] and Suzanne Collins. It’s such a great world and great stories and great, always super relevant thematics, which always ground it. But, yeah, very, very excited.”

Lawrence has helmed every film in the franchise bar the very first one. This will mark his fifth film overall as director following on from “Catching Fire,” both “Mockingjay” parts, and 2023’s “The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes”.

As the book hasn’t been released, Lawrence can’t say anything about casting at this point as the public hasn’t been made aware of what the book’s about, where in the timeline it is set and so forth.

“Sunrise on the Reaping” will release in cinemas on November 20th 2026.

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