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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.

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.