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The Hunger Games franchise’s second prequel novel, Sunrise on the Reaping, was published in March 2025, and its film adaptation is already set to hit North American theaters on November 20, 2026. Lionsgate has now released the first official teaser trailer along with a teaser poster (below).
The film is once again directed by Francis Lawrence, who helmed the final three installments of the original saga as well as its first prequel, The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes. Billy Ray, who co-wrote the first Hunger Games film, also returns to pen the screenplay. The story follows 16-year-old Haymitch Abernathy as he competes in the 50th Hunger Games.
※ Watch the official teaser trailer at the link below ▼
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The cast includes Ben Wang, Elle Fanning, Whitney Peak, Maya Hawke, Billy Porter, Lili Taylor, Glenn Close and Mckenna Grace. Ralph Fiennes plays a middle-aged President Snow, while Kieran Culkin portrays a younger Caesar Flickerman, host of the Hunger Games, and newcomer Joseph Zada stars as the teenage Haymitch. Jesse Plemons portrays a younger Plutarch Heavensbee, the Gamemaker played by Philip Seymour Hoffman in the original film series.