Erster Trailer zu „The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping“ zeigt Joseph Zada als jungen Haymitch Abernathy und Elle Fanning als Effie Trinket im kommenden Prequel

The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping has its debut trailer, offering an early glimpse at the next installment in the long-running series exactly one year prior to release.

Set for release on November 20, 2026, The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping explores the world of Panem 24 years before the events of The Hunger Games featuring Jennifer Lawrence, beginning on the morning of the reaping for the 50th Hunger Games, also referred to as the Second Quarter Quell.

Sunrise on the Reaping, directed by Francis Lawrence (who helmed four of the five Hunger Games films starting with Catching Fire), is adapted from the 2025 book of the same title by American author Suzanne Collins. It is the second prequel novel to the original The Hunger Games trilogy, following 2020’s The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, which was later turned into a film in 2023.

As the trailer shows, since these games are the Second Quarter Quell, each district must submit double the usual number of tributes to the capital (two boys and two girls), resulting in a total of 48 tributes, as a reminder that "two rebels died for every one Capitol citizen."

We see a young Haymitch Abernathy portrayed by Joseph Zada (Woody Harrelson played the character in the original Hunger Games), Elle Fanning, who recently starred as a Weyland-Yutani synth in Predator: Badlands, as a younger version of Effie Trinket, originally performed by Elizabeth Banks, Ralph Fiennes as President Coriolanus Snow (Donald Sutherland portrayed the role in the original films), and Glenn Close presenting the games.

Jesse Plemons portrays a younger version of Plutarch Heavensbee, a character played by the late Philip Seymour Hoffman in the original Hunger Games films. Succession actor Kieran Culkin plays a young Caesar Flickerman.