Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping release date, cast and everything we
know about the franchise's upcoming prequel

Date:
Tue, 10 Jun 2025 14:56:35 +0000

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Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping arrives on November 20, 2026. Here's everything we know so far about the franchise's second prequel tale.

Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping: key information
- Coming to theaters on November 20, 2026
- Fifth installment of the Hunger Games franchise
- Plot will follow Suzanne Collins's novel of the same name
- No official trailer released yet
- Ralph Fiennes, Elle Fanning and Jesse Plemons all set to star
- Unclear whether more prequel novels will be written

Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping is coming on November 20, 2026. The newest movie adaptation of Suzanne Collins's famed franchise will follow her latest novel, which arrived in bookstores in March.

And it shouldn't be all that surprising that the movie is already on the way, since Lionsgate ordered it before the novel was even released. While 2025 marked the return of Suzanne Collins's infamous franchise, it comes five
years after The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes and ten years after the main timeline Hunger Games trilogy.

For the fifth installment, it's time to travel back to the 50th Annual Games
in Panem, also famously known as the Second Quarter Quell, where Haymitch Abernathy (played by Woody Harrelson in the trilogy) competed. Here's everything we know so far about Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping from release date, to confirmed cast, plot, rumours and more.

Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping: release date?

Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping will arrive in theaters on November 20, 2026. Yes, that may feel like a long way off, but considering Suzanne
Collins's novel was only released in March, it's actually an incredibly fast turnaround. Much quicker than the four years between the first Hunger Games novel's publication and the movie adaptation's release.

The release date was officially announced in a teaser clip from Lionsgate (featured above) depicting the songbirds and snakes readying for another battle. And, at the end of the teaser, Woody Harrelson's voice chillingly
says: "I think these games are gonna be different."

And it's been confirmed that the cast and crew will be filming later this
year, as revealed by director Frances Lawrence in an exclusive interview with Collider back in February: "We've sort of got a research phase of prep. After London, I'm going to go on a scout and then we start prepping in April, and
we shoot this year."

With the previous films in the Hunger Games franchise available to stream on Max in the US, and Netflix in the UK and Australia, we can definitely expect Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping to get a streaming release although whether it will be on the same services is still not confirmed.

Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping: has a trailer been released?

There's no official Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping trailer just yet. Given the movie's scheduled November 2026 release date, I imagine we won't
see one until nearer the time. When it does appear, I'll be sure to update
and share it here.

Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping: confirmed cast

The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping cast is already filling up with some big names taking on the younger versions of characters from the main
franchise, as well as introducing new ones. Here's who is confirmed so far: Joseph Zada as Haymitch Abernathy Whitney Peak as Lenore Dove Ralph Fiennes
as President Coriolanus Snow Elle Fanning as Effie Trinket Jesse Plemons as Plutarch Heavensbee Kieran Culkin as Caesar Flickerman Maya Hawke as Wiress Mckenna Grace as Maysilee Donner Kelvin Harrison Jr. as Beetee Latier Lili Taylor as Mags Flanagan Ben Wang as Wyatt Callow Molly McCann as Louella
McCoy Iona Bell as Lou Lou

For Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping , as a prequel, there's a lot of
roles from the main trilogy that will now be played by different actors entirely. Take Jesse Plemons as a young Plutarch Heavensbee, previously
played by the late Philip Seymour Hoffman, or Elle Fanning as Effie Trinket, previously played by Elizabeth Baths.

But, according to director Frances Lawrence, finding young Haymitch was a
huge task, finding an actor to take on the role that Woody Harrelson so famously played. Lawrence told ComicBook : "Its not somebody that just looks like him, or is going to study Woody Harrelson and just act like him. When
Tom Blythe played Donald Sutherland, he wasnt doing an impersonation. We had
to find somebody that was believable that you could be like, Oh, okay, I see how this guy over 70 years could turn into Donald.'" And that person is Australian actor, Joseph Zada.

Of course, not every cast member is a returning character from the previous Hunger Games novels. There's numerous tributes joining for the 50th Hunger Games, as well as mentors to star in the prequel.

Full spoilers for previous Hunger Games movies and Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping to follow.

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