The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping unveils its debut trailer, offering the first glimpse of the next chapter in the long-running franchise, exactly one year before its release.
Set to premiere on November 20, 2026, The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping returns to the world of Panem 24 years before the events of the original Hunger Games, led by Jennifer Lawrence, and begins on the morning of the reaping for the 50th Hunger Games—also known 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 based on the 2025 novel of the same name by American author Suzanne Collins. It’s the second prequel to the original Hunger Games trilogy, following 2020’s The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, which was adapted into a film in 2023.
As the trailer shows, since these games are the Second Quarter Quell, each district must send twice as many tributes to the Capitol (two boys and two girls), totaling 48 tributes, to reinforce the message 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 as a younger version of Effie Trinket (originally played by Elizabeth Banks), Ralph Fiennes as President Coriolanus Snow (Donald Sutherland portrayed the character in the original films), and Glenn Close introducing the Games.
Jesse Plemons portrays a younger Plutarch Heavensbee, the character originally played by the late Philip Seymour Hoffman in the original Hunger Games films, while Succession star Kieran Culkin plays a young Caesar Flickerman.
