"There are worse games to play," Katniss says at the end of Mockingjay: Part 2, relieved -- spoiler alert! -- that she now lives in a world devoid of Hunger Games and the tyranny of the Capitol.
That said, it sounds like that hellscape is the very world Lionsgate is interested in exploring if it expands upon the Hunger Games universe.
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Lionsgate vice chairman Michael Burns teased the possibility of prequels at the UBS Global Media and Communications Conference, saying that the franchise will "live on and on." Katniss's story wraps up in Suzanne Collins' trilogy of books and the four existing Lionsgate movies, but that doesn't mean the studio won't find more stories to tell.
“The one thing that kids say they missed was there was no arenas,” Burns told investors at the conference. The first two Hunger Games films involve different arenas in which human tributes, usually children, battle to the death amongst hostile elements. “If we went backwards there obviously would be arenas,” Burns continued.
His words come on the heels of confirmed plans to develop Hunger Games theme parks around the world, deepening and growing the chilling world of Collins' teen dystopia.