News The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping Trailer Welcomes You to the 50th Hunger Games May the odds… yeah, you know the rest By Molly Templeton | Published on April 13, 2026 Screenshot: Lionsgate Movies Comment 0 Share New Share Screenshot: Lionsgate Movies Gather round, everyone! It’s time to watch teenagers murder each other for entertainment again! Or rather, it’s time to fictionally watch fictional teenagers murder each other for entertainment again. Yes, that’s right, it’s time for another Hunger Games—or at least the trailer for one. The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping is a mere seven months away. I’d say it’s time to place your bets, but we all know who comes out on top in this, the 50th Hunger Games. It’s young Haymitch Abernathy (Joseph Zada), who will grow up to be a very troubled Woody Harrelson by the time of the 74th Hunger Games. How did he get that way? Well, let Suzanne Collins—as interpreted by writer Billy Ray and director Francis Lawrence—show you. The 50th Games is, of course, the second Quarter Quell, which is when the Gamemakers put a perverse little twist on the typical setup. For this particular year, that means 48 doomed kids instead of 24. That is a lot of kids to keep track of, yes; you’ll want to keep your eye on Mckenna Grace as Maysilee Donner. Around the arena, the movie is packed with stars, many playing characters we’ve already met: Elle Fanning is an on-the-nose Effie Trinket (the role previously played by Elizabeth Banks). Jesse Plemons is young Plutarch Heavensbee (previously Philip Seymour Hoffman); Ralph Fiennes is President Snow (previously Donald Sutherland and Tom Blyth); Maya Hawke is Wiress (previously Amanda Plummer); Kelvin Harrison Jr. is Beetee (previously Jeffrey Wright); Lili Taylor is Mags (previously Lynn Cohen), and Kieran Culkin is Caesar Flickerman (previously Stanley Tucci). Jennifer Lawrence and Josh Hutcherson will appear as Katniss and Peeta. The most important new character is Lenore Dove Baird, Haymitch’s girlfriend; she’s played by Whitney Peak. Billy Porter joins up as Magno Stift, and Glenn Close as Drusilla Sickle. Sunrise is an odd book; since anyone reading it already knows who’s going to win the Games, there’s certainty about the outcome—but that doesn’t lessen the horror of how we get to that outcome. And as any fan of the first trilogy knows, plenty of terrible things happen outside the arena as well. The fact that Snow knows about Lenore Dove isn’t great! But the beginnings of rebellion happen outside the arena, too. The real heartbreak of this one might be knowing how long it takes for that rebellion to build. The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping is in theaters on November 20, 2026.[end-mark] The post <i>The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping</i> Trailer Welcomes You to the 50th Hunger Games appeared first on Reactor.