Fans have a chance to put their questions to the cast of The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping. Lionsgate asked followers yesterday what they would want to ask the cast, less than 2 weeks before the Haymitch Abernathy prequel opens in theaters on Friday, November 20. Check out the official post down below:
The post has drawn more than 500 replies. Lionsgate did not say which cast members will answer or where the answers will be shared.
Sunrise on the Reaping is based on Suzanne Collins' 2025 novel and is the 6th film in The Hunger Games series. It takes place 24 years before the first movie and serves as both a sequel to The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes and a prequel to The Hunger Games.
The Story Of The 50th Hunger Games
Haymitch Abernathy, 16, is selected to compete in the 50th Hunger Games. Every 25th edition of the Games is a Quarter Quell with a special twist, and for the 50th, each district of Panem has to send twice as many tributes to the Capitol to fight to the death on live television.
Haymitch, born on the same day as the Reaping, becomes one of the 2 male tributes from District 12 when he is forced to take the place of Woodbine Chance. He heads to the Capitol with fellow District 12 tributes Maysilee Donner, Wyatt Callow and Louella McCoy, his childhood friend.
Lionsgate's second trailer can be seen here:
Who Fans Can Ask
Joseph Zada plays young Haymitch, the role Woody Harrelson played in the original films. Mckenna Grace plays Maysilee Donner and her twin sister Merrilee, Ben Wang plays Wyatt Callow and Molly McCann plays Louella McCoy. Whitney Peak plays Haymitch's girlfriend, Lenore Dove Baird.
In the Capitol, Jesse Plemons plays a young Plutarch Heavensbee, Elle Fanning plays Effie Trinket, Kieran Culkin plays Caesar Flickerman and Ralph Fiennes plays President Coriolanus Snow. Glenn Close and Billy Porter play Drusilla Sickle and Magno Stift, the escort and stylist for the District 12 tributes. Maya Hawke plays Wiress, victor of the 49th Hunger Games, and Kelvin Harrison Jr. plays Beetee Latier, the District 3 victor whose son Ampert is a tribute in the 50th Games. Lili Taylor plays District 4's Mags Flanagan, and Iris Apatow plays Effie's younger sister, Proserpina Trinket.
Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson and Harrelson are also set to return as Katniss Everdeen, Peeta Mellark and an older Haymitch.
Behind The Camera
Francis Lawrence directed the film from a screenplay by Billy Ray and Michael Lesslie. Lionsgate greenlit the adaptation in June 2024, when Collins announced the novel, and filming took place from July to November 2025 in Spain and Germany. James Newton Howard composed the score. Lawrence has said he wanted the movie to work on its own, so viewers who do not know Haymitch can follow his story forward while longtime fans can look back at the characters around him.
The film premiered in London on October 28, and the first reactions followed. Tickets are on sale now, and it opens in IMAX, 4DX, ScreenX and D-Box as well as standard theaters.
The soundtrack album, The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping (The Album), arrives this Friday, November 13, from MCA. Dave Cobb executive produced the 29-track album, which includes Noah Kahan's lead single "Draw You Out" along with "Black Stars" by the Smashing Pumpkins, "Favor" by Gigi Perez and "The Wheel" by Lizzy McAlpine.
What question would you ask the cast of The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping, and which actor would you want to answer it?
Let us know your thoughts in the comments below.