(L to R): Jennifer Lawrence and Josh Hutcherson in ‘The Starvation Video games.’ Picture: Lionsgate.
Preview:
- Jennifer Lawrence and Josh Hutcherson will seem in ‘The Starvation Video games: Dawn on the Reaping.’
- Joseph Zada and Whitney Peak are enjoying the lead roles.
- Francis Lawrence is once more directing the film.
Right here’s some large information for ‘Starvation Video games’ followers ravenous for any replace on the following prequel film, ‘Dawn on the Reaping,’ directed as soon as extra by common filmmaker Francis Lawrence.
Selection stories that Jennifer Lawrence (no, no relation) and Josh Hutcherson, who have been two of the important thing roles within the unique films, will probably be again to reprise their iconic characters.
“These video games are going to be completely different.”
Launch Date: Nov 20, 2026
Finances: $150,000,000
Lawrence will probably be Katniss Everdeen and Hutcherson will return as Peeta Mellark. “However Moviefone,” we hear you ask, “the brand new film takes place years earlier than their movies. How will this work?”
Easy: Suzanne Collins’ ebook contains an epilogue set throughout Katniss and Peeta’s time the place they seem with Haymitch (which suggests Woody Harrelson, who performs the older Haymitch, may also make an look, though his voice does seem within the teaser trailer.)
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What’s the story of ‘The Starvation Video games: Dawn on the Reaping’?
Joseph Zada as Haymitch Abernathy in ‘The Starvation Video games: Dawn on the Reaping’. Picture Credit score: Murray Shut.
Whereas the earlier prequel came about 64 years earlier than the occasions of the unique trilogy, ‘The Starvation Video games: Dawn on the Reaping’ is about 24 years earlier than that trio of unique movies on the earth of Panem, commencing on the morning of the reaping of the fiftieth Starvation Video games, also referred to as the Second Quarter Quell.
These video games are an essential occasion within the canon because the victor was Haymitch Abernathy, the one winner from District 12 earlier than Lawrence’s Everdeen and Hutcherson’s Mellark’s tie win. Haymitch continues on to turn into a mentor, a personality within the unique films performed by Harrelson.
Who else has been forged in ‘The Starvation Video games: Dawn on the Reaping’?
(L to R) Joseph Zada as Haymitch Abernathy and McKenna Grace as Maysilee Donner in ‘The Starvation Video games: Dawn on the Reaping’. Picture Credit score: Murray Shut.
The forged already contains included Joseph Zada and Whitney Peak, who will play Haymitch Abernathy and the girl he loves, Lenore Dove Baird.
Along with the 2 leads, we additionally now know that McKenna Grace, who has appeared within the latest ‘Ghostbusters’ films, will probably be within the film as Maysilee Donner, Haymitch’s fellow District 12 Tribute, whereas Jesse Plemons has the function of Plutarch Heavensbee, as dropped at life by Philip Seymour Hoffman within the unique films.
Ralph Fiennes is the calculating President Snow whereas Kieran Culkin will probably be Caesar Flickerman (the eccentric host character performed within the first movie sequence by Stanley Tucci.)
Elle Fanning is on to be a youthful Effie Trinket; the effusive stylist as portrayed by Elizabeth Banks within the unique ‘Starvation Video games’ films.
Glenn Shut is Sickle, the merciless escort to the District 12 Tributes, and Billy Porter is enjoying Magno Stift is her estranged husband and the Tributes’ uninspired designer.
When will ‘The Starvation Video games: Dawn on the Reaping’ be in theaters?
Lionsgate could have the brand new film in theaters on November twentieth, 2026.
(L to R) Whitney Peak as Lenore Dove Baird and Joseph Zada as Haymitch Abernathy in ‘The Starvation Video games: Dawn on the Reaping’. Picture Credit score: Murray Shut.