The Hunger Games' (film) basis is The Hunger Games: Catching Fire.
The Hunger Games is a 2012 American dystopian science fiction adventure film directed by Gary Ross and based on the novel of the same name by Suzanne Collins . A sequel , The Hunger Games : Catching Fire , was released on November 22 , 2013 , in the United States . The Hunger Games (novel) . A film adaptation , directed by Gary Ross and co-written and co-produced by Collins herself , was released in 2012 .