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Matthew Dunster, playwright, director and former associate
director at Shakespeare's Globe theatre, will direct.
"To receive Suzanne Collins’ blessing to adapt ‘The Hunger
Games’ for the stage is both humbling and inspiring. She has
created a classic story which continues to resonate now more
than ever," McPherson said in a statement on Tuesday.
"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.
"This is turbocharged storytelling of the highest order and I’m
hugely excited to bring it to a new generation of theatre goers
and to Suzanne Collins’ longstanding and devoted fans."
Collins said she was "very excited" to be collaborating with
McPherson and Dunster "as they bring their dynamic and
innovative interpretation of ‘The Hunger Games’ to the London
stage".
The Lionsgate "Hunger Games" movies, which brought to the big
screen Collins' tale of the oppressed residents of Panem, forced
to compete in an annual televised gladiatorial contest to the
death while the wealthy watched on, grossed more than $2 billion
at the global box office.
Prequel "The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes",
set 64 years before the first installment of Collins' trilogy
and starring Rachel Zegler, Tom Blyth and Viola Davis, is
scheduled for release globally in mid-November.
(Reporting by Marie-Louise Gumuchian; Editing by Nick Macfie)
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