First announced on June 6, 2024, Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping is the second prequel in the series after The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, which was adapted for film in November 2023 and starred Rachel Zegler and Tom Blyth.

Ralph Fiennes, who portrayed Lord Voldemort in the original Harry Potter film series, has joined the cast of the much-anticipated adaptation of Suzanne Collins’s novel, Sunrise on the Reaping. He has been cast as President Coriolanus Snow, a role famously first played by the late Donald Sutherland in the original franchise.

Glenn Close and Billy Porter have joined the sprawling cast of “Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping.” Close will play Drusilla Sickle, the cruel escort to the District 12 Tributes, while Porter will portray Magno Stift,