Overview
- Hawke praised The Hunger Games as "explicitly anti-fascist" yet mainstream during an interview on The Tonight Show.
- She said on air that Jennifer Lawrence will appear in the prequel, while offering no details and with Lawrence not publicly commenting.
- The official logline places the story 24 years before Katniss’s saga at the 50th Hunger Games, focusing on a young Haymitch Abernathy.
- The film is scheduled for theatrical release on November 20, 2026.
- Hawke plays Wiress alongside an ensemble that includes Joseph Zada, Mckenna Grace, Jesse Plemons, Ralph Fiennes, Glenn Close, Kieran Culkin, Elle Fanning and Billy Porter, with director Francis Lawrence returning.