The Starvation Video games: Dawn on the Reaping is bringing again one of many key voices that launched the movie franchise. With “The Starvation Video games: Dawn on the Reaping” having now hit bookshelves and shortly turn into a success, promoting 1.5 million copies in a single week, followers are eagerly awaiting the ebook’s adaptation. The story is about 24 years earlier than the occasions of The Starvation Video games and follows Haymitch Abernathy, performed by Woody Harrelson within the 4 unique movies, throughout his tenure competing within the life-or-death video games.
As introduced at CinemaCon, screenwriter Billy Ray is about to pen the script for The Starvation Video games: Dawn on the Reaping (by way of Discussing Movie). Ray co-wrote the screenplay for 2012’s The Starvation Video games alongside the movie’s director, Gary Ross, and the ebook’s creator, Suzanne Collins. Ray’s different screenwriting credit embody Captain Phillips, Gemini Man, Richard Jewell, and Terminator: Darkish Destiny.

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Director Francis Lawrence has helmed each Starvation Video games movie since 2013’s Catching Fireplace and can return to direct Dawn on the Reaping. Casting is underway to search out the actor that may play Haymitch Abernathy, with cameras anticipated to roll this summer time. The Starvation Video games: Dawn on the Reaping is at the moment scheduled to open in theaters on Nov. 20, 2026, on the coveted Friday earlier than Thanksgiving that each film within the franchise has opened on since Catching Fireplace.
‘The Starvation Video games’ Franchise is Going Sturdy
The Starvation Video games movie franchise has been moderately fortunate with the proficient writers they’ve been capable of pull in. Each Catching Fireplace and the newest prequel movie, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, had been written by Michael Arndt, finest recognized for his work on Little Miss Sunshine and Toy Story 3. The Starvation Video games: Mockingjay Pt. 1 and 2 had been co-written by Peter Craig (The Batman) and Danny Sturdy (Dope Sick). Ray returning to pen the script for Dawn on the Reaping won’t appear to be an enormous deal from the offset, however it’s a huge deal to see one of many unique movie’s writers working with the director that has guided the sequence for the reason that second movie to new heights.
Despite the fact that The Starvation Video games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes was the lowest-grossing movie within the franchise, it nonetheless obtained optimistic phrase of mouth and did moderately effectively on the field workplace at a time of yr when different movies like The Marvels, Want, and Aquaman and the Misplaced Kingdom crashed and burned. Lionsgate has loads invested in The Starvation Video games as a long-running franchise. With Dawn on the Reaping doing so effectively in ebook shops, with the ebook far outpacing the gross sales of The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes and Mockingjay, that would recommend the viewers urge for food for the franchise is beginning to take maintain.
By the point The Starvation Video games: Dawn on the Reaping hits theaters, it’s going to have been 14 years for the reason that unique Starvation Video games opened and took the world by storm, and with Billy Ray returning, the sequence’ historical past might repeat itself as soon as extra.
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The Starvation Video games: Dawn on the Reaping
- Launch Date
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November 20, 2026
- Director
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Francis Lawrence
- Producers
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Brad Simpson