‘Hunger Games’ finales set for 2014, 2015 release

DHAKA: The final book in ‘The Hunger Games’ trilogy is coming to the big-screen in two parts starting in 2014.

Lionsgate Films announced that ‘The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1’ will be released on November 21 in 2014, and ‘The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 2’ will follow on November 20 in 2015.

The filmmakers are following the lead of two other teen-based literary franchises, ‘Harry Potter’ and ‘Twilight’, whose final books were broken into two parts for film, reports The Straits Times.

‘Mockingjay, Part 1’ will come out a year after the November 22 in 2012, release of ‘The Hunger Games: Catching Fire’, the second film based on Suzanne Collins’ novels about televised death matches in a future North American society.

BDST: 1443 HRS, JUL 11, 2012

Edited by Robab Rosan, Cultural Affairs Editor