Overview
- Multiple outlets report the duo will reprise Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark in the film, though Lionsgate has not issued a confirmation.
- Their appearances are expected to be in a future‑set sequence that connects the prequel to the original trilogy, according to reports aligned with the novel.
- The movie adapts Suzanne Collins’s Sunrise on the Reaping, focusing on 16-year-old Haymitch during the 50th Hunger Games.
- Production reportedly wrapped in November 2025, and Lionsgate released a first teaser on Nov. 20.
- The ensemble is led by Joseph Zada as young Haymitch, with Ralph Fiennes, Elle Fanning, Jesse Plemons, Whitney Peak, and Glenn Close; Billy Ray wrote the screenplay.