A sixth 'Hunger Games' film based on the prequel story of Haymitch Abernathy is headed to theaters in 2026 based on Suzanne Collins fifth novel.

The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes in 2023, it seems the mid-2020s Hunger Games resurgence is only growing stronger. The series’ creator, Suzanne Collins, is now working on a fifth book, The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping,

Released in March, Sunrise on the Reaping is the fifth novel in Collins’ blockbuster series, which revisits the dystopian world of Panem 24 years before the events of The Hunger Games. It is the American author’s first book since the publication of The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes in 2020.