The reaping is about to commence once again. Lionsgate is now gearing up to adapt Suzanne Collins' forthcoming The Hunger Games prequel novel, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, for the silver screen, with none other than Francis Lawrence coming on board to direct the film, per The Hollywood Reporter.
Lawrence previously directed all three Hunger Games sequels: The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part I, and The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part II. (Gary Ross helmed the first film in the franchise, The Hunger Games.) Lawrence will be working with screenwriter Michael Arndt, Hunger Games producer Nina Jacobson, and Collins to bring the prequel to cinematic fruition.
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