{"id":297400,"date":"2025-11-20T16:30:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T16:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/297400\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T16:30:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T16:30:12","slug":"hunger-games-sunrise-on-the-reaping-trailer-young-haymitch-first-look","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/297400\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping&#8217; Trailer: Young Haymitch First Look"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/lionsgate\/\" id=\"auto-tag_lionsgate\" data-tag=\"lionsgate\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lionsgate<\/a> has released the first trailer for \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/the-hunger-games-sunrise-on-the-reaping\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-hunger-games-sunrise-on-the-reaping\" data-tag=\"the-hunger-games-sunrise-on-the-reaping\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping<\/a>,\u201d the latest installment in the \u201cHunger Games\u201d franchise. The film will be released in theaters on Nov. 20, 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cSunrise on the Reaping,\u201d based on the 2025 book of the same name, is set 24 years before the first film and follow a young Haymitch Abernathy (Joseph Zada) who is selected to compete in the 50th Hunger Games. Since the Games are the second Quarter Quell, which takes place every 25 years, each district of Panem must send twice the tributes to the capital. Here, 48 children will fight to the death to win the Hunger Games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe footage is the first look at Zada in the role, which was originated by Woody Harrelson in the original \u201cHunger Games\u201d series.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cSunrise on the Reaping\u201d also stars Elle Fanning as a younger version of Effie Trinket, who was originally played by Elizabeth Banks. Ralph Fiennes plays President Coriolanus Snow, previously portrayed by Donald Sutherland in the original films and Tom Blyth in the \u201cBallad of Songbirds and Snakes\u201d prequel. Kieran Culkin will play Caesar Flickerman, the TV host of the Hunger Games, played by Stanley Tucci in the original films. Jesse Plemons will play a younger version of Plutarch Heavensbee, played by Philip Seymour Hoffman in the \u201cMockingjay\u201d films. Kelvin Harrison Jr., Glenn Close, Maya Hawke, Mckenna Grace, Billy Porter, Whitney Peak, Ben Wang, Molly McCann, Iona Bell and Percy Daggs IV are also among the cast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cSunrise on the Reaping\u201d is directed by Francis Lawrence, with a screenplay written by Billy Ray. Brad Simpson and Nina Jacobson return as producers for the film.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tWatch the trailer below: <\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lionsgate has released the first trailer for \u201cThe Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping,\u201d the latest installment in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297401,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64,63,134,18030,344,103327],"class_list":["post-297400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-lionsgate","tag-movies","tag-the-hunger-games-sunrise-on-the-reaping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}