Wait, you didn’t really think that The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 was the last we had seen of the franchise, did you? Talking at the UBS Global Media and Communications Conference in New York yesterday, Lionsgate entertainment vice chairman Michael Burns compared The Hunger Games franchise to Harry Potter and promised that it will live on.
In fact, it’s not just going to live on. It will, “live on and on and on”! That’s because the studio is planning a series of prequels which are set to focus on the violent arena battles that made the first movie starring Jennifer Lawrence’s Katniss Everdeen so popular in the first place.
Mockingjay Part 2 slightly underperformed after opening in the US, but after crossing $525 million, you can appreciate why Lionsgate is keen to keep the franchise alive with prequels!
“The one thing that kids say they missed [from the early Hunger Games films] was there were no arenas,” he said of the stadiums where contestants battled each other before the 74th and 75th competitions. “If we went backwards, there obviously would be arenas.”
There’s definitely the potential for something interesting, but less exciting is the fact that Burns revealed plans to reboot or develop prequels/sequels for the likes of The Expendables, Twilight, and the horror series which outstayed its welcome again and again, Saw.
