A new book called The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins is coming in 2025

Sixteen years ago, author Suzanne Collins first brought readers a dystopian world in which young men fight gladiator-style to their deaths, creating a best-selling series that spawned a global following and a multi-billion-dollar film franchise.

Now Ms. Collins is at it again, with a prequel set decades before the original “Hunger Games” book.

Study Announced on Thursday The book “Sunrise in the Harvest” will be published on March 18, 2025.

“Sunrise on the Reaping” will also be made into a film, scheduled for release on November 20, 2026, and produced by Lionsgate, the studio behind the film adaptations of Ms. Collins’ other “Hunger Games” books.

“Welcome to QUIL Q2” A blog post from The Hunger Games, the official account of the film series, he said on social media.

According to Scholastic, “Sunrise on the Reaping” will take readers to Panem, a post-apocalyptic Earth made up of 12 regions that was once North America but has been devastated by war and climate change. Events begin on the morning of the harvest (the event in which participants from each region are chosen) for the 50th Hunger Games, also known as the Second Quarter Funnel. The events of the book take place 24 years before the events of the first “Hunger Games” novel.

In a statement published on Thursday, Ms Collins said she was inspired by Scottish Enlightenment philosopher David Hume’s ideas about implicit submission and, as he put it, “the ease with which the many are governed by the few”.

“The story also helped dig deeper into the use of propaganda and the power of those who control the narrative,” Ms Collins said. “The question ‘Real or not real?’ seems more urgent to me every day.”

“The Hunger Games” is the first book in a trilogy that was published in 2008. The series also includes “Catching Fire”, the second book, which was published in 2009, and “Mockingjay,” the third book, which was published in 2010.

In 2015, Ms. Collins said she would step away from “The Hunger Games” after her third book, Tell the fans“After spending the last decade in Panem, it’s time to move on to other lands.” But Ms. Collins picked up her pen again and published the fourth book in the series, “The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes,” in 2020.

The first four books have sold more than 100 million copies worldwide and have been translated into more than 50 languages, according to Scholastic. They have also been made into five feature films. The series attracted a legion of fans, drawn in large part to its defiant teenage heroine, Katniss Everdeen, portrayed by Jennifer Lawrence in the films, with her long braids, bow and arrow, and sense of loyalty and commitment to justice.