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Stranger Issues star Maya Hawke is the newest star to hitch the forged of the extremely anticipated The Starvation Video games: Dawn on the Reaping. Set 24 years earlier than the occasions of The Starvation Video games, Dawn on the Reaping follows the story of Haymitch Abernathy and his time competing within the fiftieth annual Starvation Video games. The characteristic movie has turn into one in every of Hollywood’s most anticipated tasks, assembling a gifted forged of essentially the most in-demand expertise.

Based on Deadline, Maya Hawke has signed on to play the function of Wiress. Amanda Plummer beforehand performed Wiress in The Starvation Video games: Catching Fireplace. Wiress is the champion of the forty ninth Starvation Video games, the sport that precedes the occasions of Dawn on the Reaping, and hails from District 3. Within the ebook and the movie, Wiress is assigned as one of many mentors for District 12 reapings like Haymitch as a result of the district has by no means received a Starvation Video games earlier than.

The Rising Forged of ‘Dawn on the Reaping’

Ever since Dawn on the Reaping hit bookshelves on Mar. 18, 2025, the casting course of for the variation has been heating up. Joseph Zada will play Haymitch Abernathy, a task beforehand portrayed by Woody Harrelson. Jesse Plemons steps into the function of Plutarch Heavensbee, taking up for the late nice Phillip Seymour Hoffman. Kelvin Harrison Jr. was only in the near past confirmed to be enjoying Beetee Laiter, Wiress’ fellow District 3 champion from Catching Fireplace, beforehand performed by Jeffrey Wright. In the meantime, Whitney Peak and McKenna Grace have been forged as new additions to the franchise, Lenore Dove Baird and Maysilee Donner, respectively.

Hawke has rapidly emerged as one of the vital gifted and in-demand performers. Following her breakout function as Robin in Stranger Issues, she has starred in acclaimed movies As soon as Upon a Time in Hollywood, Do Revenge, Maestro, and Asteroid Metropolis. She additionally lately voiced Nervousness in Inside Out 2, the highest-grossing movie of 2024, bringing in $1.69 billion worldwide. Her addition to the forged of Dawn on the Reaping provides to the movie’s pedigree as a must-see movie of 2026.

Dawn on the Reaping sees Francis Lawrence, who has directed each Starvation Video games movie since Catching Fireplace in 2013, return to the franchise. Regardless of The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes not matching the field workplace heights of the earlier 4 entries, it earned strong opinions from critics and audiences, and reveals that audiences are hungry to revisit the Starvation Video games franchise. Dawn on the Reaping was a a lot greater ebook than The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, as the newest entry within the franchise offered 1.5 million copies in a single week. That definitely suggests a giant field workplace return when The Starvation Video games: Dawn on the Reaping opens in theaters in November 2026. Learn the ebook synopsis under:

“Because the day dawns on the fiftieth annual Starvation Video games, concern grips the districts of Panem. This yr, in honor of the Quarter Quell, twice as many tributes might be taken from their properties.

Again in District 12, Haymitch Abernathy is making an attempt to not suppose too onerous about his possibilities. All he cares about is making it by means of the day and being with the woman he loves.

When Haymitch’s title is named, he can really feel all his goals break. He’s torn from his household and his love, shuttled to the Capitol with the three different District 12 tributes: a younger buddy who’s practically a sister to him, a compulsive oddsmaker, and essentially the most stuck-up woman on the town. Because the Video games start, Haymitch understands he’s been set as much as fail. However there’s one thing in him that wishes to battle . . . and have that battle reverberate far past the lethal area.”

Supply: Deadline