Next Hunger Games Movie 'Sunrise' Confirms Switching Genres in 'Return to Form'
Director Francis Lawrence and producer Nina Jacobson explain how the new sequel throws back to Catching Fire
Francis Lawrence, the director behind the Hunger Games series, is returning to form with the upcoming film Sunrise on the Reaping, set to release in November. Lawrence, who directed the second and fourth installments of the franchise, Catching Fire and The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2, respectively, is staging another Quarter Quell in a spectacular arena, expanding the screen into IMAX-sized proportions.
Lawrence expressed his excitement about reviving the "scope and spectacle and scale" of the films, as well as telling the story of the 50th Hunger Games and the origin of fan-favorite character Haymitch Abernathy.
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