Suzanne Collins’s popular novel The Hunger Games will receive its first live stage adaptation in the fall of 2024.

Olivier Award-winning author Conor McPherson has adapted for the stage the first novel in Suzanne Collins’s trilogy and the first film in Lionsgate’s dystopian franchise.

Matthew Dunster, who also helmed Hangmen and 2:22 – A Ghost Story, will helm the project.

Collins said in a statement, “I’m very excited to be collaborating with the amazing team of Conor McPherson and Matthew Dunster as they bring their dynamic and innovative interpretation of The Hunger Games to the London stage.”

McPherson echoed this sentiment, stating that the author’s recommendation was “humbling and inspiring.”

““She has created a classic story which continues to resonate now more than ever,” he stated in his own statement. “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.”

The Hunger Games will dramatize the novel’s plot by following twenty-four teenagers as they compete in a lethal arena. In the Hunger Games film series, Jennifer Lawrence’s character Katniss Everdeen, who is a tribute to her 12-year-old sister, becomes a symbol of rebellion as she fights for her life and the hope of a country subjugated by the Capitol.

The play is the most recent work based on the expansive novelization. Collins’ novel The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes has been adapted into a film that will be released in November.