Lionsgate has released the latest trailer for The Hunger Games: Sunrise On The Reaping, starring Joseph Zada as a young Haymitch Abernathy.
Based on the latest Suzanne Collins novel, the film takes place twenty-four years before the events of the beloved Hunger Games trilogy, starting on the morning of the Second Quarter Quell. It is the second spin-off from the Katniss Everdeen story to hit the big screen after The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes was released in 2023.
The trailer features intriguing moments, including a young Plutarch Heavensbee (Jesse Plemons) in District 12, where he meets Haymitch for the first time during the reaping of the tributes. We also see moments within the Games themselves and Abernathy’s initial interactions with Snow. Fans will be eager to learn more about Haymitch’s story, having followed him through the original set of films as he mentored Katniss through the 74th Hunger Games and beyond. He was originally played by Woody Harrelson.
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Other cast members include Mckenna Grace as Maysilee Donner, Whitney Peak as Lenore Dove Baird, Kelvin Harrison Jr. as Beetee Latier, Maya Hawke as Wiress, Ben Wang as Wyatt Callow, Elle Fanning as Effie Trinket, Kieran Culkin as Caesar Flickerman, Lili Taylor as Mags Flanagan, Billy Porter as Magno Stift, Glenn Close as Drusilla Sickle, and Ralph Fiennes as President Coriolanus Snow.
Francis Lawrence returns to direct the film, having directed all of the other films in the franchise (apart from the first). It is a screenplay written by Billy Ray, with Nina Jacobson and Brad Simpson as producers.
Sunrise On The Reaping is in cinemas on November 20th.
