Whitney Peak and Joseph Zada in a scene from "The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping." Murray Close/Lionsgate

Get ready, set and…wait a year for the latest “Hunger Games” action to commence.

Lionsgate released the teaser trailer for “The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping” on Thursday, and it was a glimpse into the origin story of Haymitch Abernathy, a character played in earlier films by Woody Harrelson.

Joseph Zada plays a younger version of Haymitch in this prequel, which takes place twenty-four years before the events of “The Hunger Games.”

The new film starts on the morning of the reaping of the 50th Hunger Games, also known as the Second Quarter Quell, and the action is intense almost from the start. The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping (2026) Official Teaser – Joseph

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