Filming for the next " Hunger Games " film, " Sunrise on the Reaping ," is set to begin in July. Francis Lawrence, who has directed each " Hunger Games " film since "Catching Fire" in 2012, will be returning to direct the upcoming project.

Billy Ray, the Oscar-nominated screenwriter of "Hunger Games" and AMC's iconic Nicole Kidman ad, has been tapped to write "Sunrise on the Reaping."

Sunrise on the Reaping faces a unique challenge as it nears production on the movie adaptation of Suzanne Collins’ newest Hunger Games prequel novel. Set roughly 25 years before the events of the original trilogy and 40 years after Collins’ first prequel,