Glenn Close and Billy Porter are the latest additions to the upcoming film adaptation of Suzanne Collins’ Sunrise on the Reaping, Deadline reports.
Collins’ novel, the fifth book in her Hunger Games series of young-adult dystopian novels, was published in March by Scholastic. In a starred review, a critic for Kirkus praised the book, a prequel to the three original Hunger Games novels, as “a heartbreaking crescendo and another grimly irresistible chapter in the saga of this interlocking series.”
The film adaptation will be the sixth Hunger Games movie. The series of films launched in 2012 with The Hunger Games; the most recent installment, The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes, was released in 2023.
The Sunrise on the Reaping adaptation will be directed by Francis Lawrence, who helmed five of the previous Hunger Games films. Billy Ray (Shattered Glass, Captain Phillips) is writing the screenplay.
Close (Fatal Attraction, The Wife) will star as Drusilla Sickle, an evil escort to the Hunger Games tributes; Porter (Pose, American Horror Story: Apocalypse) will play her husband, the stylist Magno Stift.
Previously announced cast members include Joseph Zada, Whitney Peak, Kelvin Harrison Jr., Mckenna Grace, Ralph Fiennes, Elle Fanning, Kieran Culkin, Lili Taylor, Maya Hawke, Ben Wang, and Jesse Plemons. The film is slated for release on November 20, 2026.
Michael Schaub is a contributing writer.
