The Hunger Games franchise was the centerpiece of the 2010s young adult dystopia boom, but after 2015’s The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2, it seemed like we were leaving Panem for good, as Suzanne Collins had no more books to adapt. But that changed in 2020, when Collins released The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, a prequel set more than 50 years before the first books. In 2023, that book was adapted into a movie starring Rachel Zegler, bringing a new generation into the fandom.
Now, that winning formula is being repeated with Sunrise on the Reaping, a second prequel novel following young Haymitch Abernathy during his own stint in the Hunger Games. Set between Songbirds and Snakes and the original Hunger Games, the book is also being adapted into a movie, and it will bring back two original stars.
