Sunrise on the Reaping hit bookshelves in March 2025, but fans won’t have to wait long to see the latest Hunger Games prequel get the movie treatment. Lionsgate ordered the movie The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping at the same time author Suzanne Collins announced the book about Haymitch Abernathy was on the way.

The Hunger Games is officially back in the spotlight, and the internet is eating it up. Lionsgate just revealed that Joseph Zada and Whitney Peak will star in Sunrise on the Reaping, the next big-screen installment in Suzanne Collins’ dystopian franchise.

Now, that winning formula is being repeated with Sunrise on the Reaping, a second prequel novel following young Haymitch Abernathy during his own stint in the Hunger Games. Set between Songbirds and Snakes and the original Hunger Games, the book is also being adapted into a movie, and it will bring back two original stars.

"Give the make up team every award possible already cause I didn't even have the slightest clue that was Glenn Close."