Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping Reveals First Footage of Prequel

The Hunger Games prequel film is gearing up for its huge combat.

Lionsgate revealed the primary footage Friday from its upcoming function The Hunger Games: The Sunrise on the Reaping. Among the castmembers included within the video are Elle Fanning as Effie Trinket, Kieran Culkin as Caesar Flickerman, Jesse Plemons as Plutarch Heavensbee, Kelvin Harrison Jr. as Beetee Latier, Ralph Fiennes as President Coriolanus Snow, Lili Taylor as Mags Flanagan, Joseph Zada as Haymitch Abernathy and Maya Hawke as Wiress.

Francis Lawrence helms the film from a script by Billy Ray that adapts creator Suzanne Collins’ novel. The movie hits theaters Nov. 20 as the most recent installment within the franchise that launched with the preliminary Jennifer Lawrence-led The Hunger Games in 2012.

Glenn Close, Mckenna Grace, Billy Porter, Ben Wang, Whitney Peak and Iris Apatow spherical out the forged.

The e-book Sunrise on the Reaping takes place in Panem on the morning of the reaping for the fiftieth Hunger Games, 24 years earlier than the occasions in The Hunger Games, the primary novel that revealed in 2008. The franchise’s first 5 films have surpassed $3.3 billion on the worldwide field workplace, with the preliminary 4 movies led by Lawrence as Katniss, Josh Hutcherson as Peeta and Liam Hemsworth as Gale Hawthorne.

The Hollywood Reporter reported late final 12 months that Lawrence and Hutcherson will reprise their roles within the new film. Their most up-to-date entry within the franchise was 2015’s The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 2, which ended with the pair married with kids. Lawrence earned a Golden Globe Award nomination for her function in Die My Love, whereas Hutcherson lately starred in Five Nights at Freddy’s 2.

Nina Jacobson and Brad Simpson produce Sunrise on the Reaping for Color Force, whereas Cameron MacConomy govt produces. The new function is a sequel to 2023’s The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes, which starred Rachel Zegler, Tom Blyth and Hunter Schafer.