Hot off the success of The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, Hollywood is adapting Suzanne Collins' new Hunger Games prequel novel, Sunrise on the Reaping, into a major motion picture. And unlike Ballad,

Sunrise on the Reaping is a 2025 dystopian novel by Suzanne Collins, serving as the second prequel to her original Hunger Games trilogy.

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.