One of the main stars of the original Hunger Games films is ready and willing to return to the franchise if the option ever presents itself.
A new book in the Hunger Games series just came out, and you know what that means: speculation about more movies in the franchise. There is one particular star who isn’t shy about being game for another installment in the pop culture sensation.
The first Hunger Games book came out in 2008 and took the world by storm overnight. The initial trilogy of novels (The Hunger Games, Catching Fire, and Mockingjay) was wrapped up by 2010, a prequel set sixty years before the first novel (The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes) released in 2020, and the latest novel focused around the young Haymitch Abernathy (Sunrise on the Reaping) just came out in March 2025. Lionsgate snapped up distribution rights in 2009 and got to work on films that would become sensations in their own right. With Jennifer Lawrence in the lead role and beloved character actors like Woody Harrelson, Elizabeth Banks, and Stanley Tucci on board, the Hunger Games film franchise proved that young adult fiction could be turned into blockbuster movies just like Harry Potter was.
