Francis Lawrence — who helmed four out of five of the Hunger Games films, including the most recent prequel Ballad of Songbirds of Snakes about a teenage Snow as a mentor — will return to direct the prequel based on Suzanne Collins' novel of the same name.

Sunrise on the Reaping faces a unique challenge as it nears production on the movie adaptation of Suzanne Collins’ newest Hunger Games prequel novel. Set roughly 25 years before the events of the original trilogy and 40 years after Collins’ first prequel,