"The Hunger Games" has been a massively successful franchise. With its last installment due out at the end of the year, fans wonder what's next for the much-loved series.
The Hollywood Reporter writes that according to Lionsgate CEO Jon Feltheimer, the fourth film, "The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part II" is not the last project.
When asked what's next for Lionsgate and the Young Adults series, Feltheimer share, "We're always looking for ways to extend all of our intellectual property. We've seen that's what happened with Harry Potter and The Lord of the Rings. So we're always looking for worlds within the IP that we haven't explored yet."
When pressed if audiences can expect something more from the "Hunger Games" world, the PGA's recipient of this year's Milestone Award said Lionsgate has a lot planned for its Young Adult category.
"Not saying specifically for The Hunger Games, but we have other franchises, too. If you look at Divergent, for example, after the third book, [author Veronica Roth] actually put out a novella called Four. There may be other material there. One never knows when we dig into the treasure troves of these brilliant writers what we might find," revealed the former producer.
While there is no official word on the series extending past the fourth film, Hunger Games director Francis Lawrence has previously said he's open to exploring if there's more left to tell.
"It's a tricky thing, but I'm definitely open to talking about it, and I think everybody's thinking about it. Everybody loves the world and the ideas. I just think that one has to go into that world carefully. Because I think a huge part of what makes the stories great is that it was really built on this idea of the consequence of war, and you have an amazing character like Katniss at the center of it," quoted Movie Pilot of the director.
Lawrence does caution that the spin-off of sorts must be at the level as its predecessors. "And so to just say, 'Oh, we're still in the Hunger Games world' I think is really risky, and you need to make sure that you have something new to say, and either new characters need to be created that are just as compelling as Katniss," noted the director.
"The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part II," based on the books of Suzanne Collins, is due out in theaters Nov. 20, 2015. The film stars Jennifer Lawrence (Katniss Everdeen), Josh Hutcherson (Peeta Mellark), and Liam Hemsworth (Gale Hawthorne).
