Angie Orellana Hernandez | (TNS) Los Angeles Times Let the games begin: Suzanne Collins announced Thursday that a new “Hunger Games” book is on its way, to be followed by a new movie. The new book, “Sunrise on the Reaping,” will be the fifth installment in the popular dystopian series. Scholastic is set to publish the novel on March 18, 2025.
Collins said she meditated on the writings of David Hume , an 18th-century Scottish philosopher known for his skepticism, as she wrote the book. “With ‘Sunrise on the Reaping,’ I was inspired by David Hume’s idea of implicit submission and, in his words, ‘the easiness with which the many are governed by the few,’” she said in a statement. “The story also lent itself to a deeper dive into the use of propaganda and the power of those who control the narrative.
The question ‘Real or not real?’ seems more pressing to me every day.” Propaganda themes are not uncommon in the “Hunger Games” franchise, which originally followed teenage Katniss Everdeen as she reluctantly led a revolution against the tyrannical Panem government and its president, Coriolanus Snow. “Sunrise on the Reaping” will take place 24 years before the original series, starting on the morning of the 50th Hunger Games — infamously known as the Second Quarter Quell, which had double the number of tributes and brought Haymitch Abernathy, who would later be Katniss’ mentor, into the spotlight.
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