The Hunger Games director Francis Lawrence has helmed every movie in the franchise since 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Catching Fire, the second installment, and he'♌s returned to the series for the upcoming prequel – and he'd be up for even more movies, as long as there were solid,🌺 thematic ideas behind them. 

"I liked being part of the series originally because the stories are great," Lawrence said in a new interview with . "But what was always gratifying was that they wer♕e always about something. Suzanne [Collins] always writes from a thematic foundation. The original ones were all about the consequences of war. [The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes is] about the state of nature. That’s what makes them feel rich and not superficial, and I think it’s why they’ve stood the test of time, honestly."

He continued, "If Suzanne has another thematic idea that she feels fits into the world of Panem – wheth🥃er that’s with new people [or] familiar characters [like] Finnick, Haymitch, whoever – I’d be really interested in looking at it and being a part of it. But I don’t have any pull of just going, 'I would love to do Finnick’s games.' He’s a great character, but what’s the thematic underpinnings that make𒈔 it worth telling and relevant?"

Lawrence is back in the director's chair for new prequel, The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, which stars Rachel Zegler as a District 12 contestant in the 10th Hunger Games, and Tom Blyth as a younger version of Coriolanus Snow, who goes on to become the president of Panem in the original trilogy.𝓡 

The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes arrives on the big screen on November 17. In the meantime, check out our guide to the rest of the year's biggest 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:movie release dates.