The New 'Sunrise on the Reaping' Trailer Is Ready for Revolution

The future of The Hunger Games is still in the past, with its latest adaptation taking on Suzanne Collins’ second prequel and diving deeper into the history that shaped Panem. But while the first prequel and its film adaptation sought to explore how Coriolanus Snow became the man ruling over it all as the Capitol’s future president, its second, Sunrise on the Reaping, wants to take a more revolutionary bent. After a brief tease this weekend as part of a look back recapping the history of the Hunger Games films so far, this morning Lionsgate revealed a much fuller look at Sunrise on the Reaping, and the story of the Second Quarter Quell—the anniversarial edition of the Hunger Games with double the participating “tributes”—and the crucible that forged Haymitch Abernathy and his quest to help bring down the Capitol once and for all decades later. Played as Katniss’ haunted, surly mentor in the main Hunger Games series by Woody Harrelson, here we meet Haymitch as a young man (We Were Liars‘ Joseph Zada), one of the 48 tributes drawn from across the districts to participate in the 50th Hunger Games. Haymitch is quickly drawn into a growing opposition to the Games and their cruelty, hopi

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