The First ‘Dawn on the Reaping’ Trailer Teases a Greater, Meaner ‘Starvation Video games’

After the Hunger Games franchise returned with Suzanne Collins’ 2020 prequel e book The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes, it didn’t take a lot time earlier than Lionsgate determined to convey it to movie. That ended up being a success, so, to nobody’s shock, they’ve determined to additionally adapt Dawn on the Reaping, the second prequel that was launched earlier this yr.

Set many years after Ballad, the brand new movie focuses on a younger Haymitch Abernathy, performed first by Woody Harrelson within the authentic motion pictures and right here by Joseph Zada. As a candidate within the fiftieth Starvation Video games, Haymitch is preventing towards 47 different children handpicked by the Capital. “Twice the variety of tributes, twice the glory,” beams Glenn Shut’s Drusilla Sickle.

Longtime followers of the books will acknowledge younger variations of collection characters like Effie Trinket (Elle Fanning) and President Snow (Jesse Plemons), alongside different younger gamers Haymitch encounters, performed by the likes of Mckenna Grace and Ben Wang. It’s not going to be a very good time for Haymitch and the opposite children, however Lionsgate is hoping it’ll be a very good time for the viewers when The Starvation Video games: Dawn on the Reaping hits theaters one yr from right this moment—November 20, 2026.

The Starvation Video games: Dawn on the Reaping – in theaters & IMAX November 20, 2026. pic.twitter.com/9XJZ7BzgLv

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