Overview
- Industry outlets including Deadline and The Hollywood Reporter report that Jennifer Lawrence and Josh Hutcherson will reprise Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark.
- Set 24 years before the original films, the story follows Haymitch Abernathy during the 50th Hunger Games, known as the Second Quarter Quell.
- Reporting points to a narrative device from Suzanne Collins’s novel that allows the original leads to appear without altering the prequel timeline.
- Filming reportedly wrapped in November 2025 after a summer shoot, and the first teaser debuted on November 20.
- Joseph Zada stars as a young Haymitch alongside Ralph Fiennes, Jesse Plemons, Elle Fanning, Kieran Culkin, Glenn Close, and others, with a screenplay by Billy Ray.