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Forbes
10-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Forbes
The ‘Hunger Games: Sunrise On The Reaping' Casting Reports So Far
The Hunger Games The Hunger Games continues to remain a staple Hollywood franchise despite the blockbuster YA trend mostly come and gone. Now, after A Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, another film is coming based on a new Suzanne Collins book, Sunrise on the Reaping. The story follows the 50th Hunger Games (Katniss was in the 74th) which will tell the story of when a younger Haymitch Abernathy won his games (spoiler alert, I guess). This 'Quarter Quell' harvested double the number of tributes, so it will be a larger production and battle royale. There are a number of reports of who are being considered for roles in the film, though nothing is officially confirmed yet. But fans may want to know how they may shake out. Here's what we know. AUSTIN, TEXAS - MARCH 10: Charlie Plummer visits the IMDb Portrait Studio at SXSW 2023 on March 10, ... More 2023 in Austin, Texas. (Photo byfor IMDb) Haymitch Abernathy – Charlie Plummer. He's definitely the most unknown actor on the list you're about to see. He has a large number of credits to his name, but I doubt most would recognize him offhand. If cast, this would be by far his largest role yet, and he may be right for the part, we'll see. LUCERNE, SWITZERLAND - DECEMBER 07: Ralph Fiennes arrives for the European Film Awards 2024 at ... More Lucerne Culture and Congress Centre (KKL Luzern) on December 07, 2024 in Lucerne, Switzerland. (Photo by) Coriolanus Snow – Ralph Fiennes. The storied actor may be play the younger version of the main villain of the franchise (whose origin was saw in A Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, played by Tom Blythe). Many are remarking that the late Donald Sutherland does in fact have a son who looks exactly like him, Kiefer Sutherland, but Fiennes would be a more high profile pick. Do the ages work? Sutherland was 76 when the first Hunger Games movie was released. Ralph Fiennes is 62, so you're missing about a decade in there if this is supposed to be 24 years ago. But I mean sure, whatever, if you can manage to land Ralph Fiennes. LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - FEBRUARY 23: Kieran Culkin accepts the Outstanding Performance by a Male ... More Actor in a Supporting Role award for "A Real Pain" onstage during the 31st Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards at Shrine Auditorium and Expo Hall on February 23, 2025 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by) Caesar Flickerman - Kieran Culkin. The recent Oscar-winner seems pitch perfect as the younger version of the Hunger Games' greatest showman and interviewer. Whether he wants to take the supporting role is another question. My guess might be yes. AUSTIN, TEXAS - MARCH 11: Jesse Plemons visits the IMDb Portrait Studio at SXSW 2023 on March 11, ... More 2023 in Austin, Texas. (Photo byfor IMDb) Plutarch Heavensbee – Jesse Plemons. This is the younger version of the late Philip Seymour Hoffman's Gamemaker in the trilogy. Jesse Plemons is practically never cast in a bad movie, so this would be a good luck charm in the film. NEW YORK, NEW YORK - MAY 01: Elle Fanning attends The 2023 Met Gala Celebrating "Karl Lagerfeld: A ... More Line Of Beauty" at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 01, 2023 in New York City. (Photo by Matt Winkelmeyer/MG23/Getty Images for The Met Museum/Vogue) Elle Fanning – Effie Trinket – The report here is that Fanning has actually been offered the role of a young Effie Trinket, which again, seems like pitch-perfect casting for the part. None of these are confirmed yet, to be clear. The movie is slowly assembling itself and the book only came out last month. But all of these? I don't really see a bad one among them, unless they did want to go with a more known quantity for Haymitch. We'll see. Follow me on Twitter, YouTube, and Bluesky Pick up my sci-fi novels the Herokiller series and The Earthborn Trilogy.
Yahoo
25-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping Gives Update on Katniss & Peeta
Originally appeared on E! Online Warning: Spoilers for Sunrise on the Reaping below. For Hunger Games fans looking for an update on Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark, the odds are ever in their favor. Because while Sunrise on the Reaping is set more than 25 years before the Katniss and Peeta lead a revolution—instead following their mentor Haymitch Abernathy during the second Quarter Quell—author Suzanne Collins still gives a glimpse at what the couple's life looks like in the epilogue, as they find their new normal following the events of the original book trilogy. Over the course of nearly 400 pages in the prequel, Collins painstakingly lays out the horrors Haymitch endures, from becoming a tribute on his 16th birthday to the slaughter that follows. But the final monstrosity that Snow bestows upon him after he defies the odds and wins the Games is that he returns home just in time to be met with the shocking deaths of his family and girlfriend Lenore Dove. More from E! Online Maria Shriver Details How 'Brutal' Divorce From Arnold Schwarzenegger Left Her 'Terrified' Jennifer Lopez's 17-Year-Old Emme Looks All Grown Up in Rare Red Carpet Appearance Ivanka Trump Reacts to Tiger Woods and Vanessa Trump's Relationship Debut But while it's the loss of his girlfriend that serves as the final blow that leads him to his drunken fate, Collins doesn't end on a bleak note. Instead, she offers a look into his future—one we've previously seen in Mockingjay: A life with Katniss and Peeta as his makeshift family. Indeed, in the short epilogue, Collins returns to a post-revolution District 12. And, in it, she not only offers up a glimpse at how Katniss and Peeta's life together, but how despite his best efforts, Haymitch finally lets them all the way in, recounting life with his brother Sid and BFF Burdock Everdeen (who happens to be Katniss' dad), as well as his surprising bond in the arena with District 12 mean girl Maysilee Donner. 'I didn't want to have anything to do with their memorial book after the war,' Haymitch insists in the epilogue. 'What use? What point? To relive all the loss. But when Burdock's page came up, I had to mention him showing me the grave. And I felt compelled to tell then about Maysilee Donner, former owner of the mockingjay pin. And how Sid loved the stars.' After Katniss and Peeta learn about Lenora Dove—how she cared for geese and that it was Katniss' late dad Burdock who helped Haymitch find her hidden grave—the young pair spring into action. And in giving their former mentor his own flock of geese to look after, Katniss and Peeta give a piece of Haymitch's life with Lenora Dove back to him. 'Like the geese,' Haymitch says, 'we really did mate for life.' Ultimately, Haymitch gains the clarity to realize the parallels between himself and Katniss: their stubborn disposition, the way their grief after losing nearly everyone manifested and how she finally achieved what he could not in leading a revolution. 'She's not an easy person; she's like me, Peeta always says. But she was smarter than me, or luckier,' Haymitch admits, adding that when it comes to the reaping, 'She's the one who kept that sun from rising.' Keep reading to learn more secrets from The Hunger Games… For the latest breaking news updates, click here to download the E! News App
Yahoo
18-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
'Sunrise on the Reaping' Review: Return to Panem for Haymitch Abernathy's Quarter Quell
I first read the original Hunger Games trilogy in one delirious gulp, stranded indoors by a Buffalo snowstorm for a long weekend. It was 2011, and I was 23 years old. Not exactly the target audience for the books, but within spitting distance of it. Barack Obama was president — it was the era of "Yes We Can." I was still new to the adult world and found kindred spirits in Katniss, Peeta and their ilk. The Hunger Games felt like the world did then — new, energizing and fresh. Like things could change for the better if only a few teenagers with the right balance of spunk and smarts showed up. Today, I'm 37, older, more jaded, but not necessarily wiser. When I read Sunrise on the Reaping, the second prequel to the original Hunger Games trilogy following 2020's The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, I couldn't help but think back to that first, furious read. Related: A New Hunger Games Book Heads Back to Panem: Read an Exclusive Early Excerpt From Sunrise on the Reaping (Exclusive) There are three ways to read Sunrise on the Reaping, the latest in Suzanne Collins' groundbreaking young adult dystopia series. The first is as it's meant to be read — by a teenager in the throes of the particular angst of their demographic, which feels unique to each new generation. The second way is to approach it as a fictional adventure in the isolation fantasy affords. None of us live in Panem, after all. Our society doesn't send teenagers to fight each other to the death and watch it on live TV as a form of entertainment and recompense for a long-ago rebellion. We aren't divided into districts by the goods we produce, and most of us (let's be honest) wouldn't survive the Reaping if it did exist. Related: Peek Inside The Hunger Games Illustrated Edition: 'It Felt a Little Daunting' Says Artist Nico Delort (Exclusive) The third option is the way I couldn't help but devour the book as an adult who also reads the news — as a commentary on the times we're living in and as a rallying cry against the forces that would divide us. That's the way I recommend adults read it, because there's lots to be gleaned through that lens. This prequel follows Haymitch Abernathy, the mentor we first met in the original trilogy. It's his birthday and Reaping Day, the day when contestants are chosen for the Games from every district. He wants what every teen boy does — to shirk off work, hang out with his girl Lenore Dove and go home to his birthday dinner with his ma and younger brother, Sid. But this is the Quarter Quell, the 50th Hunger Games, and in the first major twist that I won't spoil for you here, Haymitch finds himself sent to the Games. His birthday, it's fair to say, is pretty well ruined. Related: Sunrise on the Reaping: What We Know So Far About the New Hunger Games Movie — and How It Will Reveal Haymitch's Fight in the Quarter Quell From there, the book follows a familiar format to the previous four. Anyone who's read the others — and you should before diving into this one — will slip back into the rhythm like a warm bath. It's a little on the nose at times, sure. The love story can tend toward the broadly painted, but remember this is a book for teens just discovering the first flushes of love. If it didn't feel a little sappy, that'd be a different sort of problem. But there's something about Sunrise that hits differently. Maybe it's Haymitch's refusal to bend to authority or the subtle (and not-so-subtle) ways he sabotages the Capital's plans at every turn. Maybe it's the lines Collins inserts at key moments that brought me up short and reminded me why so many adults read fantasy in the first place. Lines that felt, if not like a poison dart aimed at our current political situation, then like an awfully lucky shot. Consider: 'If you can get people to laugh at someone, it makes them look weak.' Or, 'You should know that, despite appearances, a desire for freedom is not limited to the Districts.' There's enough time spent on the stark difference between what really happens in the arena and the heavily edited version shown to the Districts that's awfully close to what we see on social media — and all media for that matter. Related: The Hunger Games Is Coming to the Stage: 'You're Going to See a Massive Spectacle' But what I really took from Sunrise on the Reaping is a reminder that Collins is awfully good at what she does — the sharp descriptions, the heart-pounding battles, the creative punishments and machinations in the Arena that make me wonder what goes on between her ears — and that readers of all ages would do well to take another trip to Panem. It's a life-giving book, no matter what you think of the world we're living in now. Because it reminds us that unity is worth something. In some cases, it's worth everything. Never miss a story — sign up for to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer , from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories. As Collins puts it: 'Where there's life, there's hope.' Or, if you prefer: 'I'm nobody's idea of a hero … But at least I'm still in the game.' Sunrise on the Reaping is on sale now, wherever books are sold. Read the original article on People
The Independent
17-03-2025
- Entertainment
- The Independent
The new Hunger Games book will be released tomorrow – here's how to pre-order now
Comprised of four books and five films, The Hunger Games franchise is a worldwide phenomenon. Whether you raced through the series as a teenager or were introduced through the blockbuster movies, you're about to be thrown back into the dystopian world thanks to a brand new book. The Hunger Games has been translated into 26 different languages and has had a lasting impact on the young adult literary scene (The Hunger Games walked so A Court of Thorn and Roses could run). With hundreds of millions of views on TikTok, generation Z is keeping the franchise alive and well. Now, Suzanne Collins has just announced Sunrise on the Reaping, a new story set in Panem 24 years before the events of The Hunger Games. Beginning on the morning of the reaping of the 50th Hunger Games, the novel revisits a fan-favorite character from the first novel: Haymitch Abernathy. Played by a pitch-perfect Woody Harrelson in the movie adaptations, the character is known for his sarcastic quips and being partial to a drink. The new novel takes us back in time to when he's a young man from District 12 nominated as tribute in the Quarter Quell. From the release date to how you can pre-order, here's everything you need to know about Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins. Starting as day dawns on the 50th annual Hunger Games, twice as many tributes have been taken from their homes owing to the Quarter Quell commemoration. Haymitch Abernathy from District 12 is torn from his family and the girl he loves and taken to the Capitol with three other tributes. But as the Games officially begin, he soon realizes he's been set up to fail (reminiscent of Katniss Everdeen's story). The book is set to be released on March 18, but you can pre-order the title now at Amazon. Naturally, there's already a feature film in the works scheduled for release in November 2026. Let the games begin.
The Independent
12-03-2025
- Entertainment
- The Independent
Sunrise on the Reaping is coming sooner than you think – here's how to pre-order
Comprised of four books and five films, The Hunger Games franchise is a worldwide phenomenon. Whether you raced through the series as a teenager or were introduced through the blockbuster movies, you're about to be thrown back into the dystopian world thanks to a brand new book. The Hunger Games has been translated into 26 different languages and has had a lasting impact on the young adult literary scene (The Hunger Games walked so A Court of Thorn and Roses could run). With hundreds of millions of views on TikTok, generation Z is keeping the franchise alive and well. Now, Suzanne Collins has just announced Sunrise on the Reaping, a new story set in Panem 24 years before the events of The Hunger Games. Beginning on the morning of the reaping of the 50th Hunger Games, the novel revisits a fan-favorite character from the first novel: Haymitch Abernathy. Played by a pitch-perfect Woody Harrelson in the movie adaptations, the character is known for his sarcastic quips and being partial to a drink. The new novel takes us back in time to when he's a young man from District 12 nominated as tribute in the Quarter Quell. From the release date to how you can pre-order, here's everything you need to know about Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins. Starting as day dawns on the 50th annual Hunger Games, twice as many tributes have been taken from their homes owing to the Quarter Quell commemoration. Haymitch Abernathy from District 12 is torn from his family and the girl he loves and taken to the Capitol with three other tributes. But as the Games officially begin, he soon realizes he's been set up to fail (reminiscent of Katniss Everdeen's story). The book is set to be released on March 18, but you can pre-order the title now at Amazon. Naturally, there's already a feature film in the works scheduled for release in November 2026. Let the games begin.
