Joseph Zada has been cast as Haymitch Abernathy, Tribute from District 12 and Whitney Peak has been cast as Lenore Dove Baird, Haymitch’s girlfriend in “The Hunger Games: Sunrise on The Reaping,” Erin Westerman, co-president, Lionsgate Motion Picture Group announced on Wednesday.

The film adaptation of Suzanne Collins best-seller will be released on Nov. 20, 2026.

Francis Lawrence will direct from a screenplay adaptation by Billy Ray. Color Force’s Nina Jacobson and Brad Simpson will produce. Cameron MacConomy will executive produce. The five films in the franchise have taken in over $3.3 billion at the box office.

Published on March 18, “Sunrise on the Reaping” revisits the world of Panem twenty-four years before the events of “The Hunger Games,” starting on the morning of the reaping of the Fiftieth Hunger Games, also known as the Second Quarter Quell.