‘Hunger Games’ Producer Shares Details on Next Movie

The producer of the popular “Hunger Games” franchise has shared details about the next movie, which is in the works.

“Sunrise on the Reaping,” the latest book in the series is a prequel that was released in March 2025, according to Variety. It’s already being developed into a movie.

The novel “follows a young version of Katniss and Peeta’s mentor Haymitch Abernathy, played by Woody Harrelson in the films,” Variety reported, which means that the next movie will need to cast a younger version of Harrelson’s character.

The Producer Says That the ‘Hunger Games’ Franchise Has Touched People ‘Deeply’

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Nina Jacobson, who is working on the next movie, told Variety that she was impressed by the franchise’s staying power.

“To imagine a thing catching people as deeply as these books, touching people as deeply as the books have, having the kind of passionate fan base that they’ve developed — if you imagined that beforehand, you’d probably be delusional. You can’t imagine it until it happens to you,” she told Variety.

She also discussed working on the next film.

“This is a very different process for us. I’ve never actually worked on an adaptation like this, where you’re so far ahead of the book, and yet people are waiting for it. I knew that she was working on another book, but I really had no idea – it could be years!” she told Variety.

The Producer Called Casting the Younger Haymitch a ‘Challenge’

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Jacobson also opened up to Variety about casting the younger Haymitch.

“It’s an interesting challenge. Because of this early manuscript not being published, we haven’t even been able to read actors for fear that sides could leak!” she told Variety.

“We’ve been holding our breath for a long time, but I think that what we’re looking for in that role is, you don’t want somebody who’s impersonating Woody, but you want somebody who very credibly feels like they could be a young version of this character, before the trauma and grief and rage that the fallout of the Games create,” she said in the interview.

“Nobody can be Woody Harrelson but Woody Harrelson. But you have to find that mischief that he has in him inherently and try to understand, if you turn back time from the man you meet at the beginning of ‘The Hunger Games,’ who he was before all of that,” she told Variety.

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