{"id":779019,"date":"2026-07-04T18:18:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T18:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/779019\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T18:18:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T18:18:10","slug":"hunger-games-sunrise-on-the-reaping-promo-introduces-young-haymitch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/779019\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping&#8217; Promo Introduces Young Haymitch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tWoody Harrelson and Hunger Games fans everywhere, eat your heart out over <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/lionsgate\/\" id=\"auto-tag_lionsgate\" data-tag=\"lionsgate\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lionsgate<\/a>\u2018s new look at young Haymitch Abernathy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tOn Saturday, July 4, <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/the-hunger-games\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-hunger-games\" data-tag=\"the-hunger-games\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Hunger Games<\/a>: Sunrise on the Reaping teased the Nov. 20 prequel with a new \u2018Meet Haymitch\u2019 promo featuring <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/joseph-zada\/\" id=\"auto-tag_joseph-zada\" data-tag=\"joseph-zada\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Joseph Zada<\/a> as the Second Quarter Quell victor, in celebration of the character\u2019s birthday and Reaping Day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tWatch the promo below.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cCan you imagine the sun rising on a world without a Reaping?\u201d asks Haymitch\u2019s girlfriend Lenore Dove Baird (Whitney Peak), to which he responds, \u201cNot on my birthday. Never had one that came without a Reaping.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe featurette includes Zada discussing the character, which was originated onscreen by Woody Harrelson, along with director Francis Lawrence, producer Nina Jacobson and co-stars Elle Fanning, McKenna Grace, Ben Wang and Jesse Plemons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/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> revisits the world of Panem and follows young Haymitch Abernathy (Zada) 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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe Billy Ray-penned prequel, based on Suzanne Collins\u2019 book, also stars Glenn Close, Billy Porter, Maya Hawke, Kieran Culkin, Kelvin Harrison Jr., Lili Taylor and Ralph Fiennes, among others.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Woody Harrelson and Hunger Games fans everywhere, eat your heart out over Lionsgate\u2018s new look at young Haymitch&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":779020,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64,63,134,282869,18030,344,18825,103327],"class_list":["post-779019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-joseph-zada","tag-lionsgate","tag-movies","tag-the-hunger-games","tag-the-hunger-games-sunrise-on-the-reaping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779019","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=779019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/779020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=779019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=779019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=779019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}