‘Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping’ Promo Introduces Younger Haymitch

Woody Harrelson and Hunger Games followers in all places, eat your coronary heart out over Lionsgate‘s new take a look at younger Haymitch Abernathy.

On Saturday, July 4, The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping teased the Nov. 20 prequel with a brand new ‘Meet Haymitch’ promo that includes Joseph Zada because the Second Quarter Quell victor, in celebration of the character’s birthday and Reaping Day.

Watch the promo under.

“Can you imagine the sun rising on a world without a Reaping?” asks Haymitch’s girlfriend Lenore Dove Baird (Whitney Peak), to which he responds, “Not on my birthday. Never had one which got here and not using a Reaping.

The featurette contains Zada discussing the character, which was originated onscreen by Woody Harrelson, together with director Francis Lawrence, producer Nina Jacobson and co-stars Elle Fanning, McKenna Grace, Ben Wang and Jesse Plemons.

The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping revisits the world of Panem and follows younger Haymitch Abernathy (Zada) 24 years earlier than the occasions of The Hunger Games, beginning on the morning of the reaping of the fiftieth Hunger Games, also referred to as the Second Quarter Quell.

The Billy Ray-penned prequel, based mostly on Suzanne Collins’ e-book, additionally stars Glenn Close, Billy Porter, Maya Hawke, Kieran Culkin, Kelvin Harrison Jr., Lili Taylor and Ralph Fiennes, amongst others.