Joseph Zada plays young Haymitch, chosen as one of the tributes for the 50th Hunger Games, aka the Second Quarter Quell. Each district is required to send twice as many tributes to the Capitol to combat the deaths. Haymitch’s fellow District 12 tributes are Macile (Mckenna Grace), Wyatt (Ben Wang), and Louella (Molly McCann). If you’ve read all the books and seen the movies, you already know that Haymitch wins his games; The suspense (and emotional stakes) lies in how he accomplishes this – and what he loses in the process.
The cast also includes Jesse Plemons as a young cameraman named Plutarch; Ralph Fiennes as a middle-aged President Snow; Glenn Close as District 12 chaperone Drusilla Sickles; Kieran Culkin as the games’ host, young Caesar Flickerman; Elle Fanning as young Effie Trinket, a stylist; Billy Porter as Magno Stift, another stylist; Maya Hawke as a young Wiress, winner of the previous year’s games; Lily Taylor as young Mags Flanagan, winner of the 11th Games; Kelvin Harrison Jr. as BT Lattier, another former winner and father of District 3 Tribute Empert (Percy Daggs IV); and Whitney Peak as Haymitch’s girlfriend, Lenore Dove Baird.
We’ll also meet Asterid March (Grace Akery), Macy’s BFF and Katniss’s future mother, as well as Katniss’s future father Bardock Everdeen (Scott Greenan). Lawrence and Hutcherson will reprise their respective roles as Katniss and Peeta in the film, presumably in a flash-forward cameo to set up the segue into the original film.
The Hunger Games: Sunrise at the Reaping Will be released in theaters on November 20, 2026.
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