Overview

• Lionsgate confirmed Glenn Close as Drusilla Sickle, the District 12 escort, and Billy Porter as her estranged husband, stylist Magno Stift.
• Sunrise on the Reaping follows 16-year-old Haymitch Abernathy in the 50th Annual Hunger Games, known as the Second Quarter Quell.
• The film adapts Suzanne Collins’ March 2025 novel, which sold over 1.5 million copies in its first week across the US, UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
• Production is set to begin in July 2025 under director Francis Lawrence with a screenplay by Billy Ray and producers Nina Jacobson and Brad Simpson.
• The prequel is scheduled for a November 20, 2026 theatrical release, extending a franchise that has grossed more than $3.3 billion worldwide.