The primary trailer for “Dawn on the Reaping,” the brand new prequel film within the “Starvation Video games” franchise, is lastly right here — and it is giving us a serious first take a look at the backstory of a younger tribute named Haymitch Abernathy.
Haymitch, who’s performed by Woody Harrelson as an older grownup within the unique “Starvation Video games” and Joseph Zada (“We Had been Liars”) on this new film, is unintentionally chosen to compete within the Starvation Video games throughout a particular outing that doubles the variety of baby tributes.
Dawn on the Reaping explains the horrifying backstory of Haymitch Abernathy
I already clarified that “Dawn on the Reaping” goes again in time — lengthy earlier than Haymitch serves as an unwilling mentor to seemingly doomed District 12 tributes Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark, performed by Jennifer Lawrence and Josh Hutcherson within the unique trilogy — however the specifics are a lot extra disturbing than that. After one of many correctly chosen tributes tries to flee and is shot on the spot, Haymitch is principally grabbed by Capitol officers and advised he’ll take the boy’s place, even though his title wasn’t picked at random (one thing that ought to have exempted him from the Starvation Video games).
From there, Haymitch bands collectively along with his three different District 12 tributes — Maysilee Donner, Wyatt Callow, and Louella McCoy, who might be performed by McKenna Grace, Ben Wang, and Molly McCann, respectively — to try to survive the world. Amidst all of this, he faces off towards Capitol bigwigs like Plutarch Heavensbee (Jesse Plemons, taking over a job originated by Philip Seymour Hoffman) and the corrupt President Coriolanus Snow (Tom Blyth in this film’s prequel “The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes,” Ralph Fiennes in “Dawn on the Reaping,” and the late, nice Donald Sutherland within the unique trilogy).
It isn’t simply the variety of tributes — which jumps from 24 to 48 to “rejoice” the fiftieth go-around of the Starvation Video games, generally known as the Second Quarter Quell — that makes “Dawn on the Reaping” so horrifying; actually, one thing that occurs on this ebook is, to my thoughts, the worst factor that occurs in any “Starvation Video games” story so far. As for the film, we’ll have to attend to see all of it play out on the massive display. “Dawn on the Reaping” releases on November 20, 2026.
