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Interview With "The Hunger Games: Sunrise On The Reaping" Director Francis Lawrence & Producer Nina Jacobson
"The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping" is an American dystopian film directed by Francis Lawrence from a screenplay by Billy Ray and Michael Lesslie. Based on the 2025 novel Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins, it serves as both a sequel to "The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes" (2023) and a prequel to "The Hunger Games" (2012), and will be the sixth installment in "The Hunger Games" film series. Taking place 24 years before the first film, 16-year-old Haymitch Abernathy (Joseph Zada) is selected to compete in the 50th Hunger Games. Every 25th edition of the games…
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