Lionsgate Unveils First Trailer for Hunger Games Prequel 'Sunrise on the Reaping'

Overview

• Lionsgate released the first preview for The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping, offering an early look at the prequel’s setting and tone.
• Ralph Fiennes appears as President Coriolanus Snow and issues a stark warning to young Haymitch Abernathy, played by Joseph Zada.
• The trailer showcases Elle Fanning as Effie Trinket, Kieran Culkin as Caesar Flickerman, Jesse Plemons as Plutarch Heavensbee, and Kelvin Harrison Jr. as Beetee Latier.
• The story takes place 24 years before the original films at the drawing for the 50th Hunger Games, a special edition with 48 tributes.
• Francis Lawrence directs from Billy Ray’s adaptation of Suzanne Collins’ novel, with releases set for November 19 in Germany and November 20 in the United States.