Sunrise on the Großwing -Casts Joseph Zada, Whitney Peak

“The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaming” found his leads. Joseph Zada ​​will appear as a tribute of District 12 Haymitch Abernathy, while Whitney Peak will play his girlfriend Lenore Dove Baird.

The Lionsgate film, which is based on the bestseller of the same name of the “Hunger Games” goalkeeper Suzanne Collins, takes place 40 years after the events of Prequel “The Ballads of Songbirds & Snakes” and 24 years before Katniss Everdeen’s time in the Arena.

“Sunrise on the Reaving” will be released on November 20, 2026. Francis Lawrence, who has headed every episode of Billy Ray from a script adaptation since the “Catching Fire” of the Franchise franchise in 2012. Nina Jacobson and Brad Simpson from Color Force will produce. Cameron Macconomy becomes Executive Produce.

Published on March 18, “Sunrise on the Reaming”, the world of Panem is repeated 24 years before the events of “The Hunger Games”, starting in the morning of the 50th Hunger Games, also known as a second quarter.

ZADA will be shown next in the Prime Video series “We Way Liars”, which premiere in June. He also completed the production for Netflix ‘”East of Eden”, in which he plays alongside Florence Pugh, Mike Faist, Martha Plimton, Tracy Lett and Chris Abbott. Zoe Kazan wrote the seven episode Limited series and is produced from the John Steinbeck novel from 1952. Zada is currently playing Charlie’s leading role in the upcoming original series “Invisible Boys” Stan Australia, which is based on the bestseller novel by Holden Sheppard.

Peak is next considered the leading role in Sony Pictures’ upcoming shark thriller “Shiver” to Phoebe Dynevor. In addition to Liam Neeson and Teresa Palmer in “4 Kids Walk in A Bank” for the Orion label from Amazon MGM, it will also play in the leading role. It is best known for her leading role in Max ‘restart of “Gossip Girl”, which Zoya Lott plays. She also appeared in “Hocus Pocus 2” opposite Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker and Kathy Najimi. Peak is currently a global Chanel ambassador: In 2023 she was appointed the latest face of the Coco Mademoiselle scented, which made her the first black face of a Chanel scent.

“The franchise” The Hunger Games “has long been a starting pad for remarkable young actors, and Jo and Whitney wear this heritage with an incredible heart, depth and fire,” said Erin Westerman, co-president of the Lionsgate Motion Picture Group. “After these two hundreds of talented actors from all over the world stated, these two stood out – not only for their talent, but for the emotional truth they brought to these iconic roles. Haymitch has always been a fan favorite, and its origin history is one of the most expected franchise.”

“Deb Zane and Dylan Jury supervised an exhaustive (and strenuous) search to find a young actor with the ability and imagination to embody young Haymitch,” added Jacobson. “Jo prepared himself like crazy and stolen our hearts. Then Whitney took her breath away when Lenore Taube. When we put together the two, it was one of these magical casting moments in which you know that your search took you home.”

The five films in “The Hunger Games” franchise took over 3.3 billion US dollars of over 3.3 billion US dollars at the box office and attracted talent such as viola Davis, Julianne Moore and Donald Sutherland.

Jacobson opened up diversity At the beginning of this year, the unique challenge of filling a young Haymitch that Woody Harrelson shows in the original four films. “Nobody can be Woody Harrelson as Woody Harrelson,” she said. “But you have to find this mischief that he naturally has in him, and try to understand when you turn back the time from the man you hit at the beginning of” The Hunger Games “who he was before all of that.”

In his first week of sales, “Sunrise on the Reaving” sold 1.5 million copies in the USA, Great Britain, Ireland, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. The 1.2 million copies sold in the United States are sold twice in the first week “The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes” and three times in the first week of the original trilogy ends “Mockingjay”.

Meredith Wieeck and Scott O’Brien monitor the project for Lionsgate. Robert Melnik negotiated the business for the studio.

Zada is represented by Caa, Untitled Entertainment, RGM and Goodman, Genow, Schenkman, Smelkinson & Christopher. Peak is reproduced by Caa, Canopy Media Partners, Play Management, The Initiative Group and Jackoway Austen Tyman Wertheimer Mandelbaum Morris Bernstein Trattner Auerbach Hynick Jaime Levine Tribe & Klein.