It should come as no surprise that Lionsgate would want to hold on to the lucrative Hunger Games franchise as long as they can. Sure, there’s no more book material left to mine, but that’s never stopped Hollywood before. The studio revealed their hope is that the franchise “will live on and on” and they have some ideas of how.

Variety reports that during the Global Media and Communications Conference in New York on Tuesday, Lionsgate chairman Michael Burns said that if we were to get more Hunger Games movies, audiences would want to see a return to form. The final installment, Mockingjay — Part 2, had the weakest box office of all the films in the franchise and, according to Burns, that’s because there wasn’t enough exciting carnage. (There was plenty of carnage, though!) The first two films center on Hunger Games competitions set in diabolical arenas and, according to Burns, younger fans missed those deathly games in the last two installments. “The one thing that kids say they missed was there was no arenas. If we went backwards there obviously would be arenas,” he said.

Fans young and old may have missed the Tracker Jackers and Cornucopias of the arenas, but, more likely, Mockingjay — Part 1 and 2 suffered from being one story split out over two films. The first installment, released in 2014, depicted the calm before the storm and that low-key entry seems to have put off a lot of audiences from seeing the film’s conclusion. A prequel might certainly fix that and it could be interesting to see how, say, Haymitch or Finnick or Johanna won their respective Games.

But all this talk of going back to the arenas makes Lionsgate sound a bit like President Snow. Give the people what they want, right? It may not be Jennifer Lawrence—there’s no room for Katniss in the prequels and Lawrence is likely ready to move on—but there is room for plenty of spectacle. Lionsgate is hoping that even without the box-office allure of their leading lady, the thrills of the arenas will be enough to ensure that the box-office odds are ever in their favor.