{"id":338245,"date":"2025-12-11T04:15:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T04:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/338245\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T04:15:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T04:15:07","slug":"jennifer-lawrence-josh-hutcherson-in-hunger-games-prequel-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/338245\/","title":{"rendered":"Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson in Hunger Games Prequel Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The odds of <a href=\"https:\/\/eonline.com\/news\/jennifer_lawrence\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Jennifer Lawrence<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/eonline.com\/news\/josh_hutcherson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Josh Hutcherson<\/a> returning to <a href=\"https:\/\/eonline.com\/news\/the_hunger_games\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer nofollow\">The Hunger Games<\/a> franchise are ever in their favor.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After all, the former\u00a0costars will be reprising their respective roles of Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark in the upcoming The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping, a prequel centered on <a href=\"https:\/\/eonline.com\/news\/woody_harrelson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Woody Harrelson<\/a>&#8216;s Haymitch Abernathy character, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-news\/hunger-games-jennifer-lawrence-josh-hutcherson-sunrise-1236447411\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer nofollow\">multiple<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2025\/film\/news\/jennifer-lawrence-josh-hutcherson-hunger-games-prequel-sunrise-on-the-reaping-1236606026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer nofollow\">outlets<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The pair will likely appear in a flash-forward scene at the end of the movie. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1415117\/sunrise-on-the-reaping-katniss-everdeen-peeta-mellark-update\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer nofollow\">In the epilogue<\/a> of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1415087\/every-easter-egg-you-mightve-missed-in-hunger-games-sunrise-on-the-reaping\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Suzanne Collins novel that the movie is adapted from,<\/a> Katniss and Peeta sit down with Haymitch following their revolution in the Capitol, which\u00a0occurred in Mockingjay, and learn about his tragic backstory.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn&#8217;t want to have anything to do with their memorial book after the war,\u201d Haymitch insisted Sunrise on the Reaping&#8217;s epilogue. \u201cWhat use? What point? To relive all the loss.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Still, Katniss and Peeta embraced their former mentor and offered him a flock of geese to tend to after learning that his late love Lenora Dove Baird cared for the animal.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u201cLike the geese,\u201d Haymitch remarked, &#8220;we really did mate for life.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The odds of Jennifer Lawrence and Josh Hutcherson returning to The Hunger Games franchise are ever in their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":338246,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[49,48,75,337],"class_list":{"0":"post-338245","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-movies"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/338246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}