Lionsgate announced it would be producing a film adaptation of Suzanne Collins' "Sunrise on the Reaping" before the book was even released.

Released in March, Sunrise on the Reaping is the fifth novel in Collins’ blockbuster series, which revisits the dystopian world of Panem 24 years before the events of The Hunger Games. It is the American author’s first book since the publication of The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes in 2020.

The Hunger Games franchise is getting revamped again with the movie adaptation of Sunrise at the Reaping, and as Haymitch’s voiceover teases in the first look: “these Games are going to be different.” Ever since Haymitch’s Quarter Quell was introduced in Catching Fire,