Who will be the star of the new film Hunger Games? The cast

We know who will play Haymitch Abernathy in Hunger Games: sunrise on the harvest.

May the harvest begin.

After The ride of the snake and the singer birdSuzanne Collins immerses us in the brutal universe of Panem with a new prequel novel released last March. And, without surprise, Hollywood follows: Hunger Games: sunrise on the harvest (The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reapingin VO) will be released in the cinema the November 20, 2026… And the cast has just fallen.

The Lionsgate studio announces on x that Joseph Zada will play the young HAYMITCH ABERNATHY. Zada stood out in Invisible Boys,, We Were Liars And Total control. A promising actor, to give life to an emblematic figure of the saga, embodied by Woody Harrelson in the original trilogy.

Because as for The ride of the snake and the singer birdthe franchise will go up in the past, long before Katniss. Hunger Games: sunrise on the harvest takes us 24 years before the tribulations of Katniss Everdeen And Peeta mellark. The film will explore the tormented past of Haymitch, winner of the 50th edition of the Hunger Games, and the only survivor of the District 12 … until the arrival of the heroine at the braid recognizable among a thousand.

By his side, we will find Whitney Peak In the shoes of Lenore Dove Baird, Haymitch’s girlfriend. If his name tells you something, it is because you have surely seen it in the reboot of Gossip Girl on Max, in Hocus Pocus 2 of Disney, or in Chilling Adventures of Sabrina on Netflix.

On the realization side, it is a regular from Panem who takes up orders: Francis Lawrencealready at the head of The conflagration and Revolt (parts 1 and 2), but also of the prequel with Rachel Zeglerreturns to the helm. It will start filming in July.

For the script, we will find Billy Raywho had brilliantly co -written the first Hunger Games alongside Gary Ross. If he had not resumed the pen for the consequences, his work on the adaptation of volume 1 had been hailed for his fidelity to the novel while softening his most violent passages, without betraying the essence of history.