Overview

• Josh Hutcherson said he hasn’t been approached about returning as Peeta Mellark but would welcome the chance if asked.
• The prequel film adapts Suzanne Collins’s Sunrise on the Reaping, whose epilogue briefly features grown Peeta and Katniss Everdeen.
• Lionsgate has cast Joseph Zada as teenage Haymitch Abernathy and Whitney Peak as Lenore Dove Baird alongside an ensemble of familiar characters.
• Francis Lawrence is back to direct with Billy Ray writing the screenplay, and production is slated to begin in July 2025.
• The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping remains on schedule for a November 20, 2026 theatrical release.