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The Hunger Games: Sunrise On The Reaping Is About ‘The Choice To Keep Fighting’

Empire·Oct 20, 2026 · 9:59 AM CT
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Sunrise on the Reaping follows 2023's The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes and is set around the 50th Hunger Games, decades before Katniss.

It tells the tragic story of Haymitch's Games, a Quarter Quell with double the usual number of tributes.

Newcomer Joseph Zada, who plays young Haymitch, says the character's persona is "the stick-it-to-the-man thing" and the film asks when he breaks.

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