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Ethermac Exchange-'The Hunger Games' stage adaptation will battle in London theater in fall 2024
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Date:2025-04-10 13:39:43
"The Ethermac ExchangeHunger Games" is coming to the London stage, and the odds are definitely in its favor.
The official play based on author Suzanne Collins' best-selling novel and the blockbuster 2012 "Hunger Games" film will open in London in fall 2024, according to a news release from Lionsgate studio. Conor McPherson, an Olivier Award-winning Irish playwright, has adapted Collins' novel and the movie into a live theatrical production directed by Matthew Dunster.
"In a world where the truth itself seems increasingly up for grabs, ‘The Hunger Games’ beautifully expresses values of resilience, self-reliance and independent moral inquiry for younger people especially," McPherson said in the statement. "This is turbo-charged storytelling of the highest order and I’m hugely excited to bring it to a new generation of theatergoers and to Suzanne Collins’ longstanding and devoted fans."
No word on casting the theater production, which will highlight the "Hunger Games" reluctant hero Katniss Everdeen, made famous by Jennifer Lawrence on the big screen (not to mention Josh Hutcherson as Peeta Mellark and Liam Hemsworth as Gale Hawthorne, among others).
Dunster said in the release that McPherson's play honors "the voice of Katniss Everdeen so rigorously." The play will follow the 24 young tributes who are pitted against each other in a televised battle for their lives by the ruthless Capitol and the Katniss-inspired rebellion that follows.
"This is theatre. It’s ‘The Hunger Games’ in the theatre," Dunster said in the release.
Collins said she was "very excited to be collaborating with the amazing team" for the production.
The announcement of the stage show comes a month before the release of "The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes" (in theaters Nov. 17), the prequel movie based on Collins' novel and starring Rachel Zegler ("West Side Story") and Tom Blyth ("The Gilded Age").
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