Pack your luggage, as a result of we’re going again to Panem for Starvation Video games: Dawn on the Reaping, and we have already got our new Haymitch Abernathy, President Snow, Lenore Dove Baird, and Plutarch Heavensbee.

In case you are new right here, the Starvation Video games franchise has gotten one more chapter with the prequel, Starvation Video games: Dawn on the Reaping, which first arrived in e-book type and can actually quickly be tailored right into a film.

First introduced on June 6, 2024, Starvation Video games: Dawn on the Reaping is the second prequel in the collection after The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, which was tailored for movie in November 2023 and starred Rachel Zegler and Tom Blyth.

Penned by Suzanne Collins, the fifth installment in the Starvation Video games saga arrived on March 18, 2025. The quilt for the e-book, designed by Tim O’Brien, was loaded with significant symbols in shades of purple and gold.

“The spiky solar rises on an emblem that can come to imply rather a lot to Haymitch Abernathy, in addition to numerous readers,” David Levithan, VP, writer and editorial director for Scholastic, shared in an announcement. In accordance to Levithan, the cowl explores the central theme of “how conflicting forces may be linked by their widespread nature, the songbird and the snake springing from the identical supply.”

In accordance to the official e-book synopsis by Scholastic, the publishing firm that owns the English rights to the Starvation Video games franchise, Dawn on the Reaping is one other prequel collection that “revisits the world of Panem twenty-four years earlier than the occasions of The Starvation Video games, beginning on the morning of the reaping of the Fiftieth Starvation Video games, also called the Second Quarter Quell.”

On October 16, 2024, Scholastic shared extra particulars about Dawn on the Reaping, confirming the story’s focus on the character of Haymitch Abernathy, who would later develop into Katniss Everdeen’s coach when she enters the Video games. (In truth, the e-book has loads of Katniss references as readers study extra about Haymitch’s journey and the way the issues he handled as a tribute impacted his future.)

With the e-book out and followers digging in, the focus is now on the film adaptation. Under, discover out all the things we all know thus far about The Starvation Video games: Dawn on the Reaping.

Who’s in the solid of the Starvation Video games: Dawn on the Reaping film?

After a lot hypothesis, Lionsgate introduced the first two solid members for the Starvation Video games: Dawn on the Reaping film on April 23, 2025. Here is how the solid is shaping up thus far:

Joseph Zada as younger Haymitch Abernathy