The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping: Launch Date, Forged, Trailers & Extra

Nearly eight years after Mockingjay, Part 2 closed the e-book on Katniss Everdeen’s combat for freedom, The Hunger Games is returning to the large display screen with a model new chapter. Following the success of 2023’s prequel The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, Lionsgate is as soon as once more taking audiences again to Panem… this time with a narrative followers have been wanting to see dropped at life.

Titled The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping, the upcoming movie adapts Suzanne Collins’ newest novel and reunites director Francis Lawrence with producers Nina Jacobson and Brad Simpson. With a launch date already set in stone, followers are trying ahead to the most recent installment within the franchise.

Here’s every little thing we find out about The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping.

When Will or not it’s launched

The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping is ready to launch in theaters on November 20, 2026.

Who’s behind the brand new FILM?

The inventive crew behind Sunrise on the Reaping reads like a reunion of Hunger Games veterans. According to Deadline, Francis Lawrence, who beforehand directed Catching Fire, each components of Mockingjay, and the current prequel The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, is ready to return on the helm, bringing his seasoned imaginative and prescient again to Panem. The script is within the arms of Billy Ray, the screenwriter who first introduced Suzanne Collins’ unique novel to theaters, making this a full-circle second for the franchise. Longtime producers Nina Jacobson and Brad Simpson of Color Force are as soon as once more overseeing the manufacturing, with Cameron MacConomy on board as government producer.

Who’s In It?

The cast of The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping is nothing wanting stacked, pulling collectively an impressive lineup of rising stars, and award-winning legends to carry this prequel-sequel to life. Leading the charge is Joseph Zada (We Were Liars) as a younger Haymitch Abernathy, the position made well-known by Woody Harrelson within the unique movies. Producer Nina Jacobson has referred to as casting Haymitch one of many largest challenges of the manufacturing, noting the necessity to seize each the mischievous spark and the underlying depth that outline the character.

Ralph Fiennes (Schindler’s List, Harry Potter) performs President Coriolanus Snow, entering into the position beforehand portrayed by Donald Sutherland and Tom Blyth, with Jacobson calling his casting each a tribute to Sutherland and a private dream fulfilled. Glenn Close joins as Drusilla Sickle, the razor-edged escort for District 12, whereas Billy Porter (Pose) performs her estranged husband, Magno Stift, the tributes’ reluctant clothier.

Maya Hawke (Stranger Things) performs Wiress, one other District 3 victor mentoring the District 12 crew, and Lili Taylor (Six Feet Under) takes on Mags, the robust however compassionate former champion from District 4.

The film also introduces youthful variations of acquainted faces. From District 3, Kelvin Harrison Jr. seems as Beetee, right here as a previous victor whose son is a tribute within the Games, lending his tech experience to sabotage efforts; Jeffrey Wright originated the position within the unique Hunger Games movie. Elle Fanning (The Great) steps into the position of Effie Trinket, initially portrayed by Elizabeth Banks, serving as Haymitch’s image-conscious stylist. Kieran Culkin (Succession) takes over as Caesar Flickerman, the Games’ slick and smarmy TV host, whereas Jesse Plemons (The Power of the Dog) performs a younger Plutarch Heavensbee, years earlier than changing into a revolt chief, capturing the reaping for District 12.

Joining Haymitch from District 12 is McKenna Grace as Maysilee Donner, one of many different tributes from Haymitch’s house district, and Whitney Peak (Gossip Girl) as Lenore Dove Baird, Haymitch’s girlfriend and a descendant of Rachel Zegler’s Lucy Gray Baird from The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. Ben Wang takes on the position of Wyatt Callow, District 12’s different male tribute with a knack for studying the chances, whereas Molly McCann performs Louella, the youngest tribute from the district, and Iona Bell seems as Lou Lou, Louella’s Capitol-appointed double.

WHAT IS THE STORY OF THE HUNGER GAMES: SUNRISE ON THE REAPING?

The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping marks the sixth installment within the blockbuster Hunger Games sequence. According to People, Collins’ 2025 novel bridges the hole between The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes and the occasions of Katniss Everdeen’s unique story. Set 24 years earlier than the primary movie, the story follows a younger Haymitch Abernathy as he’s thrust into the brutal fiftieth Hunger Games, higher referred to as the Second Quarter Quell. This infamous occasion doubled the variety of tributes from every district, making it the bloodiest Games in Panem’s historical past. Haymitch should navigate the lethal enviornment but additionally the manipulations of the regime. Along the best way, followers can anticipate the movie to dive into Haymitch’s relationship with love curiosity Lenore Dove.

The unique Hunger Games movies had been a field workplace powerhouse, cementing the franchise as one of the crucial profitable dystopian sagas in film historical past. Kicking off in 2012, the first film earned over $690 million worldwide, a exceptional feat for a YA adaptation on the time. The 2013 sequel, Catching Fire, turned the highest-grossing installment, raking in simply over $865 million globally and topping the U.S. field workplace for the yr. Along with the two-part finale, Mockingjay, Part 1 (2014) and Mockingjay, Part 2 (2016), the sequence’ complete international earnings are just below $3 billion. The movies additionally launched actress Jennifer Lawrence into international superstardom.

Are there any trailers?

No trailers for The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping have been launched but, however the film officially began production in Summer 2025 in Spain’s Somiedo Natural Park (by way of a social media announcement). In addition, followers have acquired a primary reveal on the new movie. With filming within the early levels and a late 2026 launch date, we most certainly received’t see an official trailer till mid-2026.

The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping is ready to launch in theaters on November 20, 2026.

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