The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping

A closer look at the story

The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping is a prequel based on a Suzanne Collins novel, set 24 years earlier than the first film. The story begins on reaping morning for the fiftieth edition of the contest, the one called the Second Quarter Quell. Francis Lawrence directs, and Billy Ray and Michael Lesslie wrote the screenplay. The cast features Joseph Zada as Haymitch Abernathy, Ralph Fiennes as President Coriolanus Snow, Jesse Plemons as Plutarch Heavensbee, Mckenna Grace as Maysilee Donner and Whitney Peak as Lenore Dove Baird. Running 158 minutes in the science-fiction adventure vein, the film is due to open first in November 2026.