The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping: Book vs. Movie
Francis Lawrence's The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping adapts Suzanne Collins's book. Scheduled for 2026, it stars Joseph Zada as Haymitch Abernathy during the 50th Hunger Games.
About the book and the movie
- Author
- Suzanne Collins
- Year
- 2025
- Pages
- 400Buy book
- Audiobook length
- 12 hr 48 minGet audiobook
- Narrator
- Jefferson White
Haymitch Abernathy wants to spend his sixteenth birthday with the girl he loves, but the fiftieth Hunger Games send him from District 12 to the Capitol. This Quarter Quell demands twice the usual number of tributes, leaving him facing an arena crowded with opponents. Haymitch must decide whom to trust while resisting the role the Capitol has prepared for him.
- Director
- Francis Lawrence
- Writer
- Billy Ray
- Year
- 2026
- Cast
- Joseph Zada, Jesse Plemons, Ralph Fiennes, Glenn Close
- Genre
- action film, adventure film, drama film, dystopian film, science fiction film
- IMDb
- View on IMDb
Sixteen-year-old Haymitch Abernathy is taken from District 12 to compete in a special edition of the Hunger Games with twice the usual number of tributes. The Capitol turns his fight to stay alive into a televised celebration of its authority. Among the young people sent into the arena, Haymitch must decide whom he can trust while trying to hold on to the life waiting at home.
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