Hunger Games Prequel Movie Sunrise on the Reaping Casts Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire’s McKenna Grace

• Suzanne Collins’ latest Hunger Games novel, Sunrise on the Reaping, will be adapted for the big screen, set to hit theaters in November 2026
• McKenna Grace will star as Maysilee Donner
• The film recently announced Joseph Zada will star as Haymitch Abernathy and Whitney Peak will play Lenore Dove Baird

Another Panem citizen has been cast in the next installment of the Hunger Games film franchise.

McKenna Grace will star as Maysilee Donner, who is Haymitch Abernathy’s fellow District 12 Tribute, in The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping, which lands in theaters Nov. 20, 2026. The film is an adaptation of author Suzanne Collins’ recently-released bestseller, the latest in her run of dystopian YA novels.

The Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire star, 18, will join Joseph Zada and Whitney Peak in the growing cast. Zada will star as District 12 tribute Haymitch Abernathy, while Peak will play his girlfriend Lenore Dove Baird.

Grace is also set to star in Blumhouse’s highly anticipated sequel to Five Nights at Freddy’s, Scream 7 with Neve Campbell and Courtney Cox, and she also she stars alongside an all-star cast led by Diane Lane in Anniversary.

The film will be directed by franchise veteran Francis Lawrence. Woody Harrelson played an adult Haymitch in the original trilogy.

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Collins’ prequel, which was released March 18, depicts the Capitol’s Second Quarter Quell, set between the events of The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes and The Hunger Games trilogy.

The sixth big-screen Hunger Games installment, Sunrise on the Reaping, follows the 2023 Songbirds and Snakes adaptation starring Tom Blyth and Rachel Zegler.

The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping will be in theaters Nov. 20, 2026.