In case you have not but learn the ebook, the official synopsis is as follows: “Because the day dawns on the fiftieth annual Starvation Video games, concern grips the districts of Panem. This 12 months, in honor of the Quarter Quell, twice as many tributes can be taken from their houses. Again in District 12, Haymitch Abernathy is attempting to not suppose too arduous about his probabilities. All he cares about is making it by means of the day and being with the woman he loves. When Haymitch’s identify is named, he can really feel all his goals break. He’s torn from his household and his love, shuttled to the Capitol with the three different District 12 tributes: a younger pal who’s almost a sister to him, a compulsive oddsmaker and probably the most stuck-up woman on the town. Because the Video games start, Haymitch understands he’s been set as much as fail. However there’s one thing in him that wishes to struggle… and have that struggle reverberate far past the lethal area.”
When writing the ebook, creator Suzanne Collins shared that she was impressed by the thinker David Hume’s thought of “implicit submission and, in his phrases, ‘the easiness with which the various are ruled by the few.’ The story additionally lent itself to a deeper dive into the usage of propaganda and the facility of those that management the narrative,” she defined. “The query ‘Actual or not actual?’ appears extra urgent to me daily.”
“The Second Quarter Quell is known and looms giant over the historical past of the Video games, even into the time of Katniss Everdeen a quarter-century later. Like followers across the globe, we’re eagerly anticipating this thrilling return to Panem,” Adam Fogelson, chair of the Lionsgate Movement Image Group, mentioned in regards to the new prequel film.
When will the Starvation Video games: Dawn on the Reaping film be launched?
We’re anticipating The Starvation Video games: Dawn on the Reaping film to be launched in theaters within the UK in November 2026.
Is there a trailer for the Starvation Video games: Dawn on the Reaping film?
Although there is no official trailer but, Lionsgate put out a “reveal” teaser for the Starvation Video games: Dawn on the Reaping film on 1 April 2025. Within the teaser, which you’ll be able to watch under, we see a volcano erupting after which an interconnected snake and a mockingjay rising from the flames. “I believe these video games are going to be completely different,” a voice — which seems to be that of the unique Haymitch actor Woody Harrelson — says within the trailer.
Who will direct the Starvation Video games: Dawn on the Reaping film?
When the film was first introduced, Lionsgate shared they had been in talks with Francis Lawrence to affix the Starvation Video games: Dawn on the Reaping film as its director, and it is now been confirmed. Lawrence has served as director for 4 out of 5 Starvation Video games movies since Catching Hearth. (The primary film was directed by Gary Ross.)