Screenwriters wrote The Hunger Game's screenplay.
William `` Billy '' Ray is an American screenwriter and director . He is perhaps best known for writing the screenplay to the 2012 blockbuster The Hunger Games , and his Academy Award nominated screenplay for Captain Phillips . The Hunger (1983 film) . The film is a loose adaptation of the 1981 novel of the same name by Whitley Strieber , with a screenplay by Ivan Davis and Michael Thomas , and is Scott 's feature directorial debut . The Hunger Games (film) . It is the first installment in The Hunger Games film series and was produced by Nina Jacobson and Jon Kilik , with a screenplay by Ross , Collins , and Billy Ray .