{"id":632910,"date":"2026-10-16T23:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T23:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/632910\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T23:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T23:50:09","slug":"red-rising-movie-in-the-works-at-paramount-with-hunger-games-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/632910\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Rising Movie in the Works at Paramount With ‘Hunger Games’ Director"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tHail Reaper! The rights to the popular \u201cRed Rising<\/a>\u201d book series have been picked up at Paramount with \u201cHunger Games\u201d director Francis Lawrence<\/a> attached to a movie based on the first novel.<\/p>\n

\n\tJustin Rhodes will write the script, based on the original 2014 novel by author Pierce Brown. Lawrence and Cameron MacConomy will produce for About.Blank, alongside Francesco Goedhuis. Brown will executive produce.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cRed Rising\u201d takes place in a sci-fi future where planets have been colonized and society has been separated into a color-coded caste system. The impoverished Reds work as slave labor in the mines of Mars, while the super-strong Golds rule the solar system and war on each other. The books follow Darrow of Lykos, a miner who suffers a great loss and is thrust into a rebellion\u2019s revenge plot against the Golds. He undergoes a brutal transformation to become a Gold himself and enrolls at a military school alongside other young adults who are tested before joining the highest Gold ranks. There are currently six books in the series, including \u201cGolden Son,\u201d \u201cMorning Star,\u201d \u201cIron Gold,\u201d \u201cDark Age\u201d and \u201cLightbringer,\u201d with a seventh and final novel, \u201cRed God,\u201d on the way.<\/p>\n

\n\tLawrence is no stranger to adapting popular young adult novels. He\u2019s directed every \u201cHunger Games\u201d movie, including next month\u2019s prequel \u201cSunrise on the Reaping\u201d and 2023\u2019s \u201cThe Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes.\u201d He also directed last year\u2019s Stephen King adaptation \u201cThe Long Walk.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tLawrence is repped by CAA, Gretchen Rush at Hansen Jacobson and ID. Brown is repped by CAA, Hannah Bowman at Liza Dawson Associates for publishin and Dave Feldman at Brecheen Feldman Breimer Silver & Thompson. Rhodes is repped by CAA, Adam Kolbrenner at Lit Entertainment and Eric Suddleson at Toczek Suddleson.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Hollywood Reporter first broke the news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hail Reaper! The rights to the popular \u201cRed Rising\u201d book series have been picked up at Paramount with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":632911,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[156,113975,409,111,139,69,310160],"class_list":["post-632910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-francis-lawrence","tag-movies","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-red-rising"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=632910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/632911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}