‘Fast Forever’ Taps Michael Lesslie, Screenwriter of ‘Hunger Games’ Prequels

He continued: “There is a particular weight that comes with delivering a finale. A responsibility you feel in your chest, to everyone who gave something to get here, to the audience that stayed. You don’t take that lightly. You take it as fuel. And when you find out you’re going back to Los Angeles… back to the streets where it all began, something clicks into place. The city that made the first film feel alive, still here, still holding. Coming home to close it out right. That’s not logistics. That’s a gift.”

Sources say Lesslie is rewriting a script beforehand written by Aaron Rabin and Zach Dean. The screenwriter most lately penned “The Hunger Games” prequels “The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes” and “Sunrise on the Reaping,” in addition to “Now You See Me: Now You Don’t” and Riz Ahmed’s modern “Hamlet.” Lesslie has also been in talks to jot down Marvel’s next X-Men film.

Lesslie is represented by CAA and Untitled Entertainment. Universal had no remark.