The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping has its debut trailer, showing off a first look at the next entry in the long-running franchise exactly a year before launch.
Due out November 20, 2026, The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping revisits the world of Panem 24 years before the events of The Hunger Games led by Jennifer Lawrence, starting on the morning of the reaping of the 50th Hunger Games, also known as the Second Quarter Quell.
Sunrise on the Reaping, directed by Francis Lawrence (who directed four of the five Hunger Games films beginning with Catching Fire), is based on the 2025 book of the same name by American author Suzanne Collins. It’s the second prequel novel to the original The Hunger Games trilogy, following 2020’s The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, which itself was adapted into movie form in 2023.
As the trailer reveals, because these games are the Second Quarter Quell, each district must send twice the number of tributes to the capital (two boys and two girls), totaling 48 tributes, to remind the districts that "two rebels died for every one Capitol citizen."
We see a young Haymitch Abernathy played by Joseph Zada (Woody Harrelson played the character in the original Hunger Games), Elle Fanning, fresh from her star turn as a Weyland-Yutani synth in Predator: Badlands, as a younger version of Effie Trinket, who was originally played by Elizabeth Banks, Ralph Fiennes as President Coriolanus Snow (Donald Sutherland played the character in the original films), and Glenn Close introducing the games itself.
Jesse Plemons, meanwhile, is a younger version of Plutarch Heavensbee, the character the late Philip Seymour Hoffman played in the original Hunger Games films. Succession star Kieran Culkin plays a young Caesar Flickerman.
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