"Who's hungry? Lionsgate has dropped a flowery first trailer for the next installment in the Hunger Games filmfranchise, Sunrise on the Reaping - a full year before it's set to release in theaters. Based on Suzanne Collins's novel of the same name, the movie will pick up 40 years after the events of the 2023 prequel film The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes and flesh out the traumatic backstory of Haymitch Abernathy, eventual mentor to Katniss Everdeen. Let the games promo begin."
"Naturally, the sun is rising on a reaping ceremony - this time, for the 50th Hunger Games. We get our first look at Joseph Zada as a young Haymitch, who listens with the rest of District 12 as Drusilla Sickle (a ginger Glenn Close) explains a twist to this year's deadly games: "Twice the number of tributes, twice the glory. It's time for the second Quarter Quell.""
Sunrise on the Reaping is set 40 years after The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes and centers on a young Haymitch Abernathy and his traumatic past. The trailer opens on the 50th Hunger Games reaping and reveals a second Quarter Quell with double the tributes. Haymitch appears alongside girlfriend Lenore Dove, who gives him a symbolic flint striker bearing a songbird and a serpent motif. Younger versions of familiar Capitol figures appear, including an early-career Effie Trinket and a post-president Snow, with a large ensemble cast credited.
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