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- Joseph Zada · Whitney Peak · Mckenna Grace · Elle Fanning · Jesse Plemons · Ralph Fiennes
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Where to watch The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping
Sunrise on the Reaping is not streaming or available to buy anywhere — it has not opened yet. It arrives in US theaters and IMAX on November 20, 2026. Lionsgate has announced no digital or subscription-streaming date.
Release details in the United States, updated Nov 12, 2026. More from hungergames.movie.
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A prequel built around the Games nobody wanted to watch
Sunrise on the Reaping is not a sequel to the main trilogy or to The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes — it sits between them. Adapted from Suzanne Collins’s 2025 novel of the same name, it covers the 50th Hunger Games, the Second Quarter Quell, 24 years before Katniss ever volunteers. Joseph Zada plays a young Haymitch Abernathy on the day of the reaping that puts him in the arena, with Whitney Peak as his girlfriend Lenore Dove Baird, a member of the same Covey that Lucy Gray Baird belonged to in the previous prequel.
Francis Lawrence, who directed every Hunger Games film since Catching Fire, returns here, and Ralph Fiennes reprises Coriolanus Snow from Songbirds and Snakes at a later point in his rise. Mckenna Grace plays Maysilee Donner, Haymitch’s district partner and the tribute whose fate the original trilogy only ever mentions in passing — this is the film that finally shows it.
The film has not opened yet. It arrives in US theaters and IMAX on November 20, 2026, after a London premiere on October 28, and Lionsgate has announced no streaming date — when one exists we will add it here, not before. The production record has the full cast and release details. If you want a closer look at what the second official trailer actually showed, our trailer breakdown covers it shot by shot; this page is for the release date, runtime and where to watch once that exists.
The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping cast 13
- Joseph ZadaHaymitch Abernathy
Whitney PeakLenore Dove Baird
Mckenna GraceMaysilee Donner
Elle FanningEffie Trinket
Jesse PlemonsPlutarch Heavensbee
Kieran CulkinCaesar Flickerman
Ralph FiennesCoriolanus Snow
Glenn CloseDrusilla Sickle
Ben WangWyatt Callow- Laura MarcusSilka Sharp
Billy PorterMagno Stift
Iris ApatowProserpina Trinket- Edvin RydingVitus
- Director
- Francis Lawrence
- Writer
- Billy Ray
- Based on
- Suzanne Collins's novel Sunrise on the Reaping (2025)
- Studio
- Lionsgate
Photos via Wikimedia Commons. Whitney Peak: PhilipRomanoPhoto, CC BY-SA 4.0; Mckenna Grace: Kevin Paul, CC BY 4.0; Elle Fanning: Gabriel Hutchinson, CC BY-SA 4.0; Jesse Plemons: Andrew Walker, CC BY-SA 2.0; Kieran Culkin: Raph_PH, CC BY 2.0; Ralph Fiennes: Dick Thomas Johnson from Tokyo, Japan, CC BY 2.0; Glenn Close: Georges Biard, CC BY-SA 3.0; Ben Wang: Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0; Billy Porter: UKinUSA, CC BY-SA 2.0; Iris Apatow: Daniel Benavides from Austin, TX, CC BY 2.0.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Where can I watch Sunrise on the Reaping?
Nowhere yet, checked November 12, 2026. It opens in US theaters and IMAX on November 20, 2026, and Lionsgate has announced no digital or streaming date.
When does Sunrise on the Reaping come out?
November 20, 2026, in US theaters and IMAX. It premiered in London on October 28, 2026, ahead of the wide release.
How long is Sunrise on the Reaping?
158 minutes.
Who plays young Haymitch in Sunrise on the Reaping?
Joseph Zada plays Haymitch Abernathy, with Whitney Peak as Lenore Dove Baird, Mckenna Grace as Maysilee Donner, and Ralph Fiennes returning as a younger Coriolanus Snow.
Is Sunrise on the Reaping a prequel?
Yes. It covers the 50th Hunger Games — the Second Quarter Quell — 24 years before the original trilogy, adapted from Suzanne Collins’s 2025 novel of the same name.
