https://www.vulture.com/article/jen...rson-hunger-games-sunrise-on-the-reaping.html
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By Jennifer Zhan, a Vulture social editor who also covers music, TV, and online culture
Congratulations to McKenna Grace. She and her fellow Peeta-fan editors will soon have even more content to work with, because Josh Hutcherson and Jennifer Lawrence are returning to the Hunger Games franchise next year. The pair will reprise their roles as Peeta Mellark and Katniss Everdeen in the Hunger Games prequel film Sunrise on the Reaping, per The Hollywood Reporter, which Lionsgate is scheduled to release on November 20, 2026. Unless director Francis Lawrence has randomly decided that he wants Peeniss to time travel, we’ll likely be getting a flash-forward scene of the couple. In any case, it’ll be the first time we see the girl on fire and the boy with the bread together since 2015’s Mockingjay — Part 2, in which they ended up married with children.
Hutcherson previously told Variety that he went through a phase of wanting nothing to do with Suzanne Collins’s franchise after finishing Mockingjay — Part 2. “I was like, ‘Fuck that,’” he recalled. “I got thrust into a place of notoriety that I never dreamed of, never wanted. It took privacy from me.” But the I Love LA and Five Nights at Freddy’s star eventually grew to appreciate the experience and became enthusiastic about the idea of reuniting with his old co-stars for another Hunger Games film. “I would loveto be back on set with Francis, with Jen, with Liam [Hemsworth], with Woody [Harrelson],” he said in November. “It would not take any convincing at all. I’d be there in a heartbeat.” So will fans.
The book Sunrise on the Reaping takes place in Panem on the morning of the reaping for the 50th Hunger Games, 24 years before the events in The Hunger Games, the first novel that published in 2008. The franchise’s first five movies have surpassed $3.3 billion at the worldwide box office, with the initial four films led by Lawrence as Katniss, Hutcherson as Peeta and Liam Hemsworth as Gale Hawthorne. The film series kicked off with 2012’s The Hunger Games.
Lawrence and Hutcherson’s most recent entry in the franchise was 2015’s The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 2, which ended with the pair married with children. Lawrence earned a Golden Globe Award nomination this week for her role in Die My Love, while Hutcherson currently stars in Five Nights at Freddy’s 2.
https://archive.ph/XDeQt
By Jennifer Zhan, a Vulture social editor who also covers music, TV, and online culture
Congratulations to McKenna Grace. She and her fellow Peeta-fan editors will soon have even more content to work with, because Josh Hutcherson and Jennifer Lawrence are returning to the Hunger Games franchise next year. The pair will reprise their roles as Peeta Mellark and Katniss Everdeen in the Hunger Games prequel film Sunrise on the Reaping, per The Hollywood Reporter, which Lionsgate is scheduled to release on November 20, 2026. Unless director Francis Lawrence has randomly decided that he wants Peeniss to time travel, we’ll likely be getting a flash-forward scene of the couple. In any case, it’ll be the first time we see the girl on fire and the boy with the bread together since 2015’s Mockingjay — Part 2, in which they ended up married with children.
Hutcherson previously told Variety that he went through a phase of wanting nothing to do with Suzanne Collins’s franchise after finishing Mockingjay — Part 2. “I was like, ‘Fuck that,’” he recalled. “I got thrust into a place of notoriety that I never dreamed of, never wanted. It took privacy from me.” But the I Love LA and Five Nights at Freddy’s star eventually grew to appreciate the experience and became enthusiastic about the idea of reuniting with his old co-stars for another Hunger Games film. “I would loveto be back on set with Francis, with Jen, with Liam [Hemsworth], with Woody [Harrelson],” he said in November. “It would not take any convincing at all. I’d be there in a heartbeat.” So will fans.
The book Sunrise on the Reaping takes place in Panem on the morning of the reaping for the 50th Hunger Games, 24 years before the events in The Hunger Games, the first novel that published in 2008. The franchise’s first five movies have surpassed $3.3 billion at the worldwide box office, with the initial four films led by Lawrence as Katniss, Hutcherson as Peeta and Liam Hemsworth as Gale Hawthorne. The film series kicked off with 2012’s The Hunger Games.
Lawrence and Hutcherson’s most recent entry in the franchise was 2015’s The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 2, which ended with the pair married with children. Lawrence earned a Golden Globe Award nomination this week for her role in Die My Love, while Hutcherson currently stars in Five Nights at Freddy’s 2.
