The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping gets a new trailer

Elle Fanning as Effie Trinket in The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping. Photo Credit: Murray Close/Lionsgate

Lionsgate has released the first full length trailer and a new poster for The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping, which hits cinemas on 20th November 2026.

The film adaptation of The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping will be released on November 20, 2026.

THE HUNGER GAMES: SUNRISE ON THE REAPING revisits the world of Panem and follows young Haymitch Abernathy (Joseph Zada) 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.

Francis Lawrence directs from a screenplay adaptation by Billy Ray. Color Force’s Nina Jacobson and Brad Simpson will produce. Cameron MacConomy will executive produce. The five films in the franchise have taken in over $3.3 billion at the box office.

The cast also includes Jesse Plemons, Elle Fanning, Kieran Culkin, Mckenna Grace, Whitney Peak, Maya Hawke, Kelvin Harrison Jr., Ralph Fiennes, and Glenn Close.

Sunrise on the Reaping sold 1.5 million copies in its first week on sale in the U.S., U.K., Ireland, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. The 1.2 million copies sold in the U.S. are twice the first week sales of The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes and three times the first week sales of Mockingjay.