Sunrise on the Reaping is officially adding two familiar names to the Capitol chatter: Jennifer Lawrence and Josh Hutcherson will appear as Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark in the new Hunger Games prequel feature. The Lionsgate film adapts Suzanne Collins’ 2025 novel and is set around the 50th Hunger Games, 24 years before Katniss and Peeta first step into the arena. A theatrical release is slated for November 20, 2026.

The project tracks a teenage Haymitch Abernathy through the Second Quarter Quell; the story framework strongly suggests Katniss and Peeta surface in a coda moment, mirroring their presence in the book’s epilogue. Variety notes the nature of the cameo is “being kept under wraps,” but book readers will recognize the flash-forward setup.

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