Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping Movie: Jennifer Lawrence & Josh Hutcherson Reprise Their Roles

Attention, millennials! Something major is happening: Katniss and Peeta and coming back. Yes, Jennifer Lawrence and Josh Hutcherson will be reprising their iconic roles in Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping a full decade since we last saw them on screen. The Hollywood Reporter confirmed the news, suggesting that the pair might appear in a flash forward.

In case you are new here, the Hunger Games franchise was expanded with yet another chapter with the prequel, Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping, which first arrived in book form this year and has already been adapted into a movie, due to drop next year.

We're not only freaking out about the Katniss and Peeta news – we're also freaking out at who will lead this story – Elle Fanning is set to play Effie, who was played in earlier films by Elizabeth Banks, while Ralph Fiennes will play the film's main antagonist President Coriolanus Snow, who was portrayed previously by the late Donald Sutherland.

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First announced on 6 June 2024, Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping is the second prequel in the series after The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, which was adapted for film in November 2023 and starred Rachel Zegler and Tom Blyth.

Penned by Suzanne Collins, the fifth instalment in the Hunger Games saga arrived on 18 March 2025. The cover for the book, designed by Tim O'Brien, was loaded with meaningful symbols in shades of purple and gold.

“The spiky sun rises on a symbol that will come to mean a lot to Haymitch Abernathy, as well as countless readers,” David Levithan, VP, publisher and editorial director for Scholastic, shared in a statement. According to Levithan, the cover explores the central theme of “how conflicting forces can be connected by their common nature, the songbird and the snake springing from the same source.”

According to the official book synopsis by Scholastic, the publishing company that owns the English rights to the Hunger Games franchise, Sunrise on the Reaping is another prequel series that “revisits the world of Panem twenty-four years before the events of The Hunger Games, starting on the morning of the reaping of the Fiftieth Hunger Games, also known as the Second Quarter Quell.”

With the book out and fans digging in, the focus is now on the movie adaptation. Below, find out everything we know so far about The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping.

Who is in the cast of the Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping movie?

It has been confirmed that Molly McCann and Iona Bell will portray book characters Louella and Lou Lou, respectively. Here's how the rest of the cast is shaping up so far:

Joseph Zada as young Haymitch Abernathy

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