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Production Begins on the Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping With Iris Apatow and Edvin Ryding

Adapting Suzanne Collins’s bestselling novel, the prequel remains on track for its November 20, 2026 theatrical release.

Rachel Zegler and Tom Blyth in The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes
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Iris Apatow and Edvin Ryding (Credit: Jamie McCarthy/WireImage/Jeff Spicer/Getty Images)
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Overview

  • Iris Apatow and Edvin Ryding join the cast as Proserpina and Vitus, two Capitol University students assigned to prepare District 12 tributes.
  • Joseph Zada stars as Haymitch Abernathy, navigating the deadly Second Quarter Quell that forged his legacy.
  • Ralph Fiennes reprises President Coriolanus Snow, depicting his iron-fisted rule over Panem decades before the original Hunger Games.
  • Francis Lawrence has commenced filming from Billy Ray’s screenplay, continuing the franchise’s exploration of propaganda, authoritarianism and societal submission.
  • Suzanne Collins’s Sunrise on the Reaping novel sold 1.5 million copies in its first week, reflecting strong audience anticipation ahead of production.