It used to be you found a property, adapted it and if you were lucky, turned it into a trilogy. Then the ravenous appetite for brands living in perpetuity brought the age of reboots and reimaginings of the same story told in a modern(er) context like an “Amazing Spider-Man” movie instead of just a “Spider-Man” movie. And now, a franchise never dies and intellectual property lives on, much like the rights to said properties, forever.
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There’s been talk of more “Twilight” and “Hunger Games” films, but so far Lionsgate, the studio that owns both film rights, hasn’t figured out what to do with them. Sequels? Prequels? Spin offs? Stories told in parallel? Reboots are seemingly off the table, it’s too much too soon to have someone take Jennifer Lawrence’s role in “The Hunger Games,” or Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson’s parts in “Twilight,” but the ideas are clearly still being explored.
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“There are a lot more stories to be told, and we’re ready to tell them when our creators are ready to tell those stories,” Lionsgate CEO Jon Feltheimer said during a quarterly earnings call with Wall Street analysts today.
According to Variety however, the Lionsgate chief also implied that for further installments or new stories of the films to go forward they would need the blessing of “Twilight” author Stephenie Meyer and “Hunger Games” creator Suzanne Collins. But presumably, both of them like money.
Both franchises have been huge cash cows for the studio that is mostly without blockbuster brands to its name. Four “Hunger Games” movies grossed just shy of $3 billion worldwide and five “Twilight” movies earned $3.3 billion globally over the course of four years. Both properties are incredible important to the studio and until Lionsgate finds another winning franchise to focus their attention on —something like “Divergent” could never convert—you’ll see lots of efforts put into reviving the stories, or related stories to the worlds of both “Hunger Games” and “Twilight.”