‘The Inheritance Games’ Adaptation is in the Works at Lionsgate Television!!

Lionsgate has been a force in bringing young adult hits to life, from The Hunger Games to The Twilight Saga. Now, as both franchises are gearing up for new installments on both the big and small screen, the studio’s television arm has captured another beloved series for adaptation. Jennifer Lynn Barnes‘s bestselling The Inheritance Games books have been optioned by Lionsgate Television, with Temple Hill Entertainment, the banner behind Twilight, the Maze Runner trilogy, and The Fault in Our Stars, attached as an executive producer. Barnes is also coming aboard to produce.

The Inheritance Games series kicked off in 2020 with the eponymous first book, which became an instant success for Barnes. To date, the series as a whole has sold over 6 million copies worldwide, while the debut novel became a New York Times bestseller. The new show will start by adapting the original novel and introducing high schooler Avery Gramb. At first, Avery’s goal was to survive high school, land a scholarship, and get out unscathed. Her perfectly laid plans for a better future suddenly change, however, when billionaire Tobias Hawthorne dies and bequeaths nearly his entire fortune to her. What appears to be a blessing is actually a puzzle because she has no idea why he’d do such a thing, or who the man even is to begin with. Each novel has since deepened the mystery, with new adversaries trying to remove Avery from the picture.

Since the first book burst onto the scene, Barnes‘s series has blossomed into an expansive literary world, with two sequels in The Hawthorne Legacy and The Final Gambit, a standalone follow-up book in The Brothers Hawthorne, a collection of short stories, and a burgeoning spin-off series, The Grandest Game, with two installments already. Lionsgate and Temple Hill will have a lot to work with if the television adaptation becomes a hit as well. Having Barnes in the fold gives them a successful YA genre veteran with over 20 novels to her name and a PhD from Yale University, to boot. Publishing her first novel at the age of 19, she’s sold millions of copies of her books worldwide from series including The Naturals, The Fixer, and Raised By Wolves, as well as The Inheritance Games.

Lionsgate Is Going Big With Its Hottest YA Franchises

While The Inheritance Games is still very early in the adaptation process, Lionsgate‘s other YA properties are chugging along smoothly. Just over a year from now, on November 20, 2026, the studio will release Francis Lawrence‘s latest installment in The Hunger Games franchise, Sunrise on the Reaping, based on Suzanne Collins‘s prequel novel set during the 50th Hunger Games, where a young Haymitch Abernathy competed. Filming kicked off on the new dystopian story back in August, with Joseph Zada embodying the District 12 champion played by Woody Harrelson in the main film series. Twilight, meanwhile, is set to be resurrected in an animated series adaptation of Stephenie Meyer‘s companion novel Midnight Sun at Netflix, though it’s still early in the creative process.