The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping (2026)

Welcome to the Second Quarter Quell.

Return to the world of Panem 24 years before the events of The Hunger Games, starting on the morning of the reaping of the 50th Hunger Games, also known as the Second Quarter Quell.

Directed by: Francis Lawrence

Written by: Suzanne Collins, Billy Ray, Michael Lesslie

Music by: James Newton Howard

Starring: Joseph Zada, Ralph Fiennes, Jesse Plemons, Whitney Peak, Elle Fanning, Kieran Culkin, Maya Hawke, Kelvin Harrison Jr., Mckenna Grace, Glenn Close

Genre: Science Fiction, Action, Adventure

Released: 2026-11-18

Runtime: 159 minutes

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The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping (2026): trivia & fun facts

Fun facts

• Adaptation rights for the film were acquired by Lionsgate Films simultaneously with Suzanne Collins's announcement of the Sunrise on the Reaping novel (2025) in June 2024.
• In June 2024, with the announcement that Collins would be publishing her next installment in The Hunger Games series on March 18, 2025, titled Sunrise on the Reaping, Lionsgate Films had greenlit a feature film adaptation of the book, with Francis Lawrence in talks to return to direct.
• In April 2026, James Newton Howard was announced to return to compose the film in his sixth time with the franchise, marking his eighth collaboration with Lawrence.
• Casting directors Debra Zane and Dylan Jury began casting the film in December 2024; a casting call was put out for young Haymitch, Lenore Dove, and Maysilee, and Zane and Jury began making lists for the younger adult versions of legacy characters.
• Ralph Fiennes as Coriolanus Snow, the tyrannical president of Panem who in the past served as the mentor to Lucy Gray Baird, victor of the 10th Hunger Games, from District 12.
• Maya Hawke as Wiress, victor of the 49th Hunger Games, from District 3.
• Kelvin Harrison Jr. as Beetee Latier, victor of the 34th Hunger Games, from District 3.
• Lili Taylor as Mags Flanagan, victor of the 11th Hunger Games, from District 4.
• Based on the 2025 novel Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins, it serves as both a sequel to The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (2023) and a prequel to The Hunger Games (2012), and will be the sixth installment in The Hunger Games film series.

Source: Wikipedia

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