It’s been nearly a year and a half since we last heard about any movement on “The Hunger Games”, the sci-fi film based on Suzanne Collins’s series of best-selling young adult novels. The LATimes now reports that Lionsgate and producer Nina Jacobson have hired screenwriter Billy Ray to work on a draft of the script previously turned in by Collins herself.
Here’s a plot of the book for those who are in the dark?
A dystopic Capitol requires its twelve subjugated districts to pay tribute in the form of a teenage boy and girl who are forced to participate in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to the death on live TV. When Katniss Everdeen’s little sister is chosen in the lottery, Katniss volunteers to take her place. Although persevering through hardship is commonplace for Katniss, she must start making choices that weigh survival against humanity and life against love in order to win the games and return home.
Billy Ray has written “Flightplan” and “State of Play” in the past, and he’s also directed “Breach” and “Shattered Glass”, so there’s a possibility he mind end up directing “Hunger Games” as well. Since the announcement that Lionsgate was making a movie based on the novel, there have be no major hiring whatsoever — no cast and no director.
Maybe that’s changing…
