Whereas most upcoming ebook variations occur years after the discharge of a given novel, the most recent Starvation Video games ebook was introduced concurrently its film counterpart final summer season. Suzanne Collins’ novel has been in followers’ arms for just a bit lower than three weeks at this level, and plenty of are nonetheless emotionally processing the complete story behind Haymitch Abernathy’s Starvation Video games. Wildly sufficient, although the writer just lately supplied some actually fascinating perception into the ebook’s growth.
I do know I definitely imagined a actuality the place Dawn on the Reaping was informed from the angle of the Haymitch launched within the authentic Starvation Video games trilogy. Suzanne Collins simply shared that she really thought-about moving into that course. As for why she determined to put in writing the novel from a teen Haymitch’s perspective, she stated the next:
I performed round with it each methods, however I discovered that youthful Haymitch speaks on to the YA viewers one of the best. An older individual reflecting again on their youth or shifting into a toddler’s perspective is more durable to tug off. Good work, Harper Lee!
After they take a look at her interview with Scholastic Books, some followers could discover it fascinating that Collins did certainly spend a while writing Dawn on the Reaping from an older Haymitch’s perspective. Had she gone in that course, it may’ve had a significant impact on the upcoming movie. It may’ve theoretically meant that the film could be narrated by Haymitch actor Woody Harrelson.
Finally, I can perceive why she determined to forgo the “older” strategy to the story and body it in the identical method she did for Katniss Everdeen and Coriolanus Snow’s arcs.
The writer’s strategy is sensible given Dawn On The Reaping and all of the Starvation Video games books are written for a younger grownup viewers. (After all, members of every other demographic can definitely choose up the books as effectively.) Maybe a 40-year-old drunkard wouldn’t essentially be as interesting to readers aged twelve to eighteen… or their mother and father.
Whereas talking concerning the ebook, Suzanne Collins was additionally requested how writing the ebook maybe modified her perspective on the character of Haymitch. As she shared:
I don’t suppose it modified my understanding of him — Haymitch continues to be Haymitch — but it surely gave me room to discover his earlier journey. Like his relationship to Katniss by way of Burdock. What it meant to tackle his greatest buddy’s youngster and see her by way of the warfare and turn out to be her surrogate father. It was good to have a while with that angle.
Collins additionally talked about how she loved the prospect of tempo from Snow, who’s a personality she referred to as “endlessly manipulative and controlling”. She described Haymitch as a tribute with a a lot “higher capability for hope and love and pleasure” than even Katniss.
The author’s sentiments concerning the Starvation Video games ebook are particularly fascinating after CinemaCon’s Lionsgate panel, throughout which new particulars concerning the film had been divulged. Amid that occasion, it was stated that the upcoming flick will apparently be a “return to kind” to the unique trilogy for director Francis Lawrence.
As of this writing, followers are nonetheless ready to study who’ll play younger Haymitch following Woody Harrelson’s efficiency. On high of that, the Lionsgate manufacturing may additionally forged youthful variations of Katniss’s mother and father, Caesar Flickerman, Plutarch Heavensbee and Coriolanus Snow for this Starvation Video games film. Finally, I am glad Suzanne Collins landed on this particular course for the ebook, and I am hopeful that all of it interprets effectively to the variation.
You may learn Dawn on the Reaping now, and know that the film is ready to hit theaters on November 20, 2026.