The subsequent two novels were adapted into films as well, with the latter book split into two cinematic installments, for a total of four films representing the three books. Josh Hutcherson played Peeta Mellark and Liam Hemsworth played Gale Hawthorne. Directed by Gary Ross, filming began in late spring 2011, with Jennifer Lawrence portraying main character Katniss Everdeen. Collins adapted the novel for film herself. Lions Gate Entertainment acquired worldwide distribution rights to a film adaptation of The Hunger Games, produced by Nina Jacobson's Color Force production company. The Hunger Games was on The New York Times Best Seller list for more than 60 weeks in a row. Within 14 months, 1.5 million copies of the first two Hunger Games books were printed in North America alone. The trilogy's second book, Catching Fire, was released in September 2009, and its third book, Mockingjay, was released on August 24, 2010. Another inspiration was her father's career in the Air Force, which gave her insight to poverty, starvation, and the effects of war. The Hunger Games was partly inspired by the Greek myth of Theseus and the Minotaur. In September 2008, Scholastic Press released The Hunger Games, the first book of a trilogy by Collins. During that time, Collins also wrote a rhyming picture book, When Charlie McButton Lost Power (2005), illustrated by Mike Lester. Between 20 she wrote the five books of the Underland Chronicles: Gregor the Overlander, Gregor and the Prophecy of Bane, Gregor and the Curse of the Warmbloods, Gregor and the Marks of Secret, and Gregor and the Code of Claw. Her inspiration for Gregor the Overlander, the first book of The New York Times best-selling series The Underland Chronicles, came from Alice in Wonderland, when she was thinking about how one was more likely to fall down a manhole than a rabbit hole, and would find something other than a tea party. She received a Writers Guild of America nomination in animation for co-writing the critically acclaimed Christmas special, Santa, Baby! After meeting children's author James Proimos while working on the Kids' WB show Generation O!, Collins felt inspired to write children's books herself. She was also the head writer for Scholastic Entertainment's Clifford's Puppy Days. She did not write the children's book Little Bear, which is sometimes mistaken as her own book. She worked on several shows for Nickelodeon, including Clarissa Explains It All, The Mystery Files of Shelby Woo, Little Bear, and Oswald. Suzanne Collins began her career in 1991 as a writer for children's television shows.

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