Jena Malone needs to reprise her function of Johanna Mason.
Followers of the Starvation Video games franchise received an enormous shock earlier this month, with the announcement of a brand new guide within the saga from creator Suzanne Collins. Titled Dawn on the Reaping, the March 2025 guide has already been confirmed to be getting a film adaptation, with followers closely speculating that it’s going to revolve round the early days of Haymitch Abernathy. Through the years, there have been calls to get prequels elaborating on plenty of tales of previous Starvation Video games tributes, and even some kind of sequel following the post-war exploits of sure characters. In a current interview with Leisure Tonight, Johanna Mason actress Jena Malone joined the marketing campaign for her to reprise her function in some capability.
“Come on, the place’s Johanna Mason?” Malone requested. “I am like, I am simply ready.”
What Is the New Starvation Video games Film About?
Dawn on the Reaping revisits the world of Panem twenty-four years earlier than the occasions of The Starvation Video games, beginning on the morning of the reaping of the Fiftieth Starvation Video games, often known as the Second Quarter Quell.
“With Dawn on the Reaping, I used to be impressed by David Hume’s concept of implicit submission and, in his phrases, ‘the easiness with which the numerous are ruled by the few,'” Collins mentioned in an announcement saying the guide. “The story additionally lent itself to a deeper dive into using propaganda and the ability of those that management the narrative. The query ‘Actual or not actual?’ appears extra urgent to me every single day.”
Will There Be Extra Starvation Video games Motion pictures?
Along with the story of Haymitch’s Starvation Video games, followers have additionally hoped to someday get a prequel surrounding Finnick Odair, who gained the sixty fifth Starvation Video games and have become a pivotal and tragic a part of the following Quarter Quell. Collins has repeatedly acknowledged that her Starvation Video games entries are a method for her to “look at” a real-world subject, with franchise director Francis Lawrence indicating that one other movie installment would not occur with out Collins having a selected narrative in thoughts.
“If Suzanne has one other thematic concept that she feels suits into the world of Panem — whether or not that is with new individuals [or] acquainted characters [like] Finnick, Haymitch, whoever — I might be actually interested by taking a look at it and being part of it,” Lawrence advised Leisure Weekly in an interview final yr. “However I haven’t got any pull of simply going, ‘I might like to do Finnick’s video games.’ He is a fantastic character, however what is the thematic underpinnings that make it price telling and related?”
Dawn on the Reaping shall be launched wherever books are bought on March 18, 2025, adopted by the film adaptation on November 20, 2026.
