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Ralph Fiennes joins top cast of new Hunger Games film

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  • The latest Hunger Games prequel film, Sunrise on the Reaping, is slated for release on 20 November 2026.
  • Ralph Fiennes has joined the cast as President Coriolanus Snow, a role previously portrayed by Donald Sutherland and Tom Blyth.
  • The new movie will centre on a young Haymitch Abernathy as he competes in the 50th Annual Hunger Games, also known as the Second Quarter Quell.
  • The narrative is set 24 years before Katniss Everdeen's story and 40 years after the events of The Ballads of Songbirds & Snakes.
  • Key casting announcements include Kieran Culkin as Caesar Flickerman, Joseph Zada as Haymitch, and Jesse Plemons as Plutarch Heavensbee.
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