Joseph Zada as Haymitch Abernathy must battle to save his life at the Second Quarter Quell in a new trailer for Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping franchise instalment from Lionsgate, which dropped on Monday.
“I’m sick of living in fear. Just surviving. We’re not animals to be killed for their entertainment,” Abernathy declares at one point in the teaser (below). The book Sunrise on the Reaping takes place in Panem on the morning of the reaping for the 50th Hunger Games, 24 years before the events in The Hunger Games, the first novel that published in 2008.
But Ralph Fiennes as President Coriolanus Snow has other designs for Abernathy. “If you disobey me, we shall open the bloodbath with the longest, most drawn out death your people have ever seen,” Snow says in a voiceover as Abernathy is hoisted into the arena for battle.
Among the other castmembers featured in the trailer is Elle Fanning as Effie Trinket, Kieran Culkin as Caesar Flickerman, Jesse Plemons as Plutarch Heavensbee, Kelvin Harrison Jr. as Beetee Latier, Ralph Fiennes as President Coriolanus Snow, Lili Taylor as Mags Flanagan and Maya Hawke as Wiress.
Francis Lawrence helms the movie from a script by Billy Ray that adapts author Suzanne Collins’ novel. The film hits theaters Nov. 20 as the latest installment in the franchise that launched with the initial Jennifer Lawrence-led The Hunger Games in 2012.
Nina Jacobson and Brad Simpson produce Sunrise on the Reaping for Color Force, while Cameron MacConomy executive produces. The new feature is a sequel to 2023’s The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes, which starred Rachel Zegler, Tom Blyth and Hunter Schafer.
