Watch: 'Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping' trailer released

If there’s one thing we know, it’s that there’s no escaping the Hunger Games unscathed, and this trailer for The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping is not pulling any punches. After a brief sojourn in the harrowing, colorless world of the first-ever Hunger Games in The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, this new movie takes us to their 50th outing, the Second Quarter Quell. This time, twice as many tributes as ever before are reaped, as President Snow continues his sadistic, twisted rule of Panem. Needless to say, President Snow and Haymitch Abernathy will not be getting along. But there may also be more connections to The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes than one imagines. Keep your eyes peeled… Or read the book.

We appreciate how this The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping trailer takes care to keep the tributes looking like the young children they are. It really helps to underscore the brutality and unfairness of the games.

The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping Synopsis

Alongside this trailer, we received the official synopsis for The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping. It shares, “THE HUNGER GAMES: SUNRISE ON THE REAPING revisits the world of Panem and follows young Haymitch Abernathy (Joseph Zada) twenty-four years before the events of The Hunger Games, starting on the morning of the reaping of the Fiftieth Hunger Games, also known as the Second Quarter Quell.“

First Look at Jesse Plemons as Plutarch Heavensbee in The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping

In The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping trailer, we get our first look at Jesse Plemons stepping into the role of Plutarch Heavensbee, first played to perfection by Philip Seymour Hoffman. Hoffman perfectly fit the shrewd and jovially dark role in his Hunger Games turn. But if there was anyone who could fill his shoes, it’s Jesse Plemons, an actor with incredible range. We applauded the casting of Plemons as Plutarch Heavensbee when we first heard about it. And we applaud it now as we get our first full glimpse of Jesse Plemons as Plutarch Heavensbee in The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping trailer.

First Look at Ralph Feinnes as President Snow in The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping

The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping trailer also gives us a taste of another major recasting for this new Hunger Games movie. In it, we get our first look at Ralph Fiennes as President Snow, a recasting that occurred after the passing of Donald Sutherland. Fiennes, too, looks just right for the role, and we know he can do menace well. We bet this new version of President Snow will chill us just as much as ever.

When Will the New Hunger Games Movie Release?

The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping movie will be release on November 20, 2026.