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The Hunger Games franchise expanded last March with the publication of its second prequel novel, Sunrise on the Reaping. The film adaptation is set to hit North American theaters on November 20 this year, and Lionsgate has now unveiled its third trailer along with two new key-art posters (below).
Francis Lawrence, who directed the final three films in the original saga as well as its first prequel, The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes, returns to helm the film. Billy Ray, one of the screenwriters on the first Hunger Games movie, is also back to write the screenplay. The story follows 16-year-old Haymitch Abernathy as he competes in the 50th Hunger Games.
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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 series.
Josh Hutcherson and Jennifer Lawrence, who starred as Peeta and Katniss in the original film series, have also been confirmed to return.