The Starvation Video games: Dawn on the Reaping has its debut trailer, exhibiting off a primary have a look at the following entry within the long-running franchise precisely a yr earlier than launch.
Due out November 20, 2026, The Starvation Video games: Dawn on the Reaping revisits the world of Panem 24 years earlier than the occasions of The Starvation Video games led by Jennifer Lawrence, beginning on the morning of the reaping of the fiftieth Starvation Video games, often known as the Second Quarter Quell.
Dawn on the Reaping, directed by Francis Lawrence (who directed 4 of the 5 Starvation Video games movies starting with Catching Hearth), is predicated on the 2025 e-book of the identical title by American writer Suzanne Collins. It’s the second prequel novel to the unique The Starvation Video games trilogy, following 2020’s The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, which itself was tailored into film kind in 2023.
Because the trailer reveals, as a result of these video games are the Second Quarter Quell, every district should ship twice the variety of tributes to the capital (two boys and two women), totaling 48 tributes, to remind the districts that “two rebels died for each one Capitol citizen.”
We see a younger Haymitch Abernathy performed by Joseph Zada (Woody Harrelson performed the character within the authentic Starvation Video games), Elle Fanning, contemporary from her star flip as a Weyland-Yutani synth in Predator: Badlands, as a youthful model of Effie Trinket, who was initially performed by Elizabeth Banks, Ralph Fiennes as President Coriolanus Snow (Donald Sutherland performed the character within the authentic movies), and Glenn Shut introducing the video games itself.
Jesse Plemons, in the meantime, is a youthful model of Plutarch Heavensbee, the character the late Philip Seymour Hoffman performed within the authentic Starvation Video games movies. Succession star Kieran Culkin performs a younger Caesar Flickerman.
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