Conoce a Haymitch en featurette de ‘The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping’

In November of this year, the franchise The Hunger Games returns with a new installment for cinemas, The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping of the director Francis Lawrencewhich in our region is titled The Hunger Games: Harvest Dawn.

The marketing campaign Lionsgate continues with the release of a featurette, which invites the audience to go back to Panem and meet a young Haymitch Abernathy (played by Joseph Zada), a character that in the saga starring Jennifer Lawrence, was played by Woody Harrelson in a more adult stage of his life.

The plot of Dawn at the harvestbegins on the harvest morning of the Fiftieth Hunger Games, also known as the Second Quell of the Twenty-Five, when Haymitch was chosen as District 12's tribute.

The prequel is based on the novel of the same name by Suzanne Collins which was published in March of this year and sold 1.5 million copies worldwide in its first week, three times more than the trilogy sold in its first week. Mockingjay.

The plot takes place in the world of Panem 40 years after the events of the prequel Ballads of Songbirds & Snakes and 24 years before the events of the saga starring Lawrence.

In addition to Zada, the main cast includes Whitney Peak (4 Kids Walk into a Bank), McKenna Grace (Scream 7), Jesse Plemons (Bugonia), Kelvin Harrison Jr. (Elvis), Maya Hawke (Stranger Things), Lili Taylor (The Conjuring), Ben Wang (Karate Kid: Legends), Elle Fanning (Margo’s Got Money Troubles), Kieran Culkin (A Real Pain), Billy Porter (Pose), Glenn Close (Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery), y Ralph Fiennes (Conclave) like President Snow.

Take a look at the featurette at the end of the note.

Lawrence directs the script Billy Ray (The Hunger Games, Captain Phillips). The filmmaker has directed all the installments of the franchise since The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013), including the prequel The Ballad of the Songbirds & Snakes (2023).

SYNOPSIS:

The plot begins on the harvest morning of the 50th Hunger Games, also known as the Second Quarter Quell..

Those games are an important event in the canon since the winner was Haymitch Abernathythe only winner of District 12 before the tie of Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) and Peeta Mellark (Josh Hutcherson). Haymitch goes on to become a mentor, a character in the original films played by Woody Harrelson.

KNOW THE DETAILS OF THE ROLES

• Zada plays District 12 tribute Haymitch Abernathy.
• Peak a la novia de Haymitch, Lenore Dove Baird.
• Grace is Maysilee Donner, another District 12 tribute
• Plemons is a younger version of the future Chief Warden and leader of the rebellion, Plutarch Heavensbee (previously played by Philip Seymour Hoffman in Mockingjay Part 1& 2).
• Harrison Jr. is Beete.
• Hawke is Wiress, former champion of the games and turned mentor of District 12.
• Taylor es Mags.
• Wang is Wyatt Callow, a tribute from District 12.
• Fanning plays a young Effie Trinket, Haymitch's stylist (previously played by Elizabeth Banks).
• Culkin as Caesar Flickerman (previously played by Stanley Tucci).
• Porter is Magno Stift, Drusilla's ex-husband and the uninspired designer of the Tributes.
• Close plays Drusilla Sickle, the cruel escort of the District 12 Tributes.
• Fiennes plays President Snow (previously played by Donald Sutherland).

Nina Jacobson and Brad Simpson will produce the project, with Cameron MacConomy serving as executive producer.

The five films in the franchise gross a combined box office of more than $3.3 billion worldwide.

Dawn at the harvest opens in theaters on November 20, 2026.

Featurette “Meet Haymitch”: