Debut Trailer for The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping Shows Joseph Zada as Young Haymitch Abernathy and Elle Fanning as Effie Trinket in Upcoming Prequel

The Hunger Games: Sunrise connected the Reaping has its debut trailer, showing disconnected a archetypal look astatine the adjacent introduction successful the long-running franchise precisely a twelvemonth earlier launch.

Due retired November 20, 2026, The Hunger Games: Sunrise connected the Reaping revisits the satellite of Panem 24 years earlier the events of The Hunger Games led by Jennifer Lawrence, starting connected the greeting of the reaping of the 50th Hunger Games, besides known arsenic the Second Quarter Quell.

Sunrise connected the Reaping, directed by Francis Lawrence (who directed 4 of the 5 Hunger Games films opening with Catching Fire), is based connected the 2025 publication of the aforesaid sanction by American writer Suzanne Collins. It’s the 2nd prequel caller to the archetypal The Hunger Games trilogy, pursuing 2020’s The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, which itself was adapted into movie signifier successful 2023.

As the trailer reveals, due to the fact that these games are the Second Quarter Quell, each territory indispensable nonstop doubly the fig of tributes to the superior (two boys and 2 girls), totaling 48 tributes, to punctual the districts that "two rebels died for each 1 Capitol citizen."

We spot a young Haymitch Abernathy played by Joseph Zada (Woody Harrelson played the quality successful the archetypal Hunger Games), Elle Fanning, caller from her prima crook arsenic a Weyland-Yutani synth successful Predator: Badlands, arsenic a younger mentation of Effie Trinket, who was primitively played by Elizabeth Banks, Ralph Fiennes arsenic President Coriolanus Snow (Donald Sutherland played the quality successful the archetypal films), and Glenn Close introducing the games itself.

Jesse Plemons, meanwhile, is simply a younger mentation of Plutarch Heavensbee, the quality the precocious Philip Seymour Hoffman played successful the archetypal Hunger Games films. Succession prima Kieran Culkin plays a young Caesar Flickerman.

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