The Hunger Games: The Ballad Of Songbirds and Snakes box-office collection prediction: What we know so far

The highly anticipated "The Hunger Games: The Ballad Of Songbirds and Snakes" is projected to have an opening weekend of approximately $50 million on November 17. Lionsgate, under the direction of Francis Lawrence, is revisiting the Suzanne Collins franchise with a film adaptation of her prequel novel. The production of the movie "The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes" comes with an estimated budget of around $100 million, as per a report in Deadline.

Meanwhile, "The Hunger Games" is set to open at a London theatre next year in the first live stage adaptation of Suzanne Collins' novels and the hugely successful film franchise. Irish playwright, screenwriter and director Conor McPherson has adapted for theatre the first book in Collins's young adult dystopian trilogy and the first film from "The Hunger Games" Lionsgate movie franchise, which starred Oscar winner Jennifer Lawrence as heroine Katniss Everdeen.

Matthew Dunster, playwright, director and former associate director at Shakespeare's Globe theatre, will direct.


Collins said she was "very excited" to be collaborating with McPherson and Dunster "as they bring their dynamic and innovative interpretation of ‘The Hunger Games’ to the London stage".

The Lionsgate "Hunger Games" movies, which brought to the big screen Collins' tale of the oppressed residents of Panem, forced to compete in an annual televised gladiatorial contest to the death while the wealthy watched on, grossed more than $2 billion at the global box office.

Prequel "The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes", set 64 years before the first installment of Collins' trilogy and starring Rachel Zegler, Tom Blyth and Viola Davis, is scheduled for release globally in mid-November.

FAQs

Q1. Will there be theatre adaptation of The Hunger Games?
A1. Yes, there will be theatre adaptation of The Hunger Games.

Q2. Who will direct theatre adaptation of The Hunger Games?
A2. Matthew Dunster, playwright, director and former associate director at Shakespeare's Globe theatre, will direct.