WHO ASKED FOR THIS??????????

“Last June, Scholastic announced that Collins had written a prequel set 64 years before the events of The Hunger Games, titled The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (out May 19). And now EW can offer eager fans a taste of what to expect with this first excerpt — and reveal Snow as our new protagonist, a teenager born to privilege but searching for something more, a far cry from the man we know he will become. Here, he’s friendly. He’s charming. And, for now anyway, he’s a hero.”

OMG! Suzanne Collins announces ‘Hunger Games’ prequel coming in 2020

The Hunger Games author Suzanne Collins has announced a prequel novel that will hit book store shelves in 2020, and Lionsgate is already confirming a movie adaptation.

The new (and still untitled) book arrives May 19, 2020 and is set in Panem 64 years before the events of the Katniss-led trilogy. In Collins’ words:

“With this book, I wanted to explore the state of nature, who we are, and what we perceive is required for our survival. The reconstruction period 10 years after the war, commonly referred to as the Dark Days — as the country of Panem struggles back to its feet — provides fertile ground for characters to grapple with these questions and thereby define their views of humanity.”

64 years back would also be around the 10th annual Hunger Games. The Associated Press already has a comment from Lionsgate, who turned the books into movies, and it sounds like a theatrical adaptation is already set in stone:“As the proud home of the ‘Hunger Games’ movies, we can hardly wait for Suzanne’s next book to be published. We’ve been communicating with her during the writing process and we look forward to continuing to work closely with her on the movie.”

source: https://www.hypable.com/hunger-games-prequel-book-2020/