With the upcoming The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping slowly gaining hype, director Francis Lawrence has come out to share his opinion on how they’ll substitute Woody Harrelson’s Haymitch within the prequel. The film will take inspiration from writer Suzanne Collins’ subsequent Starvation Video games novel, which can hit the bookstores on March 18, 2025. Because the challenge will give attention to the fiftieth version of The Starvation Video games, its movie adaptation may have the robust activity of casting one other actor within the function of a younger Haymitch. In a current dialogue, Lawrence defined the method his group would comply with to perform this in a simply method.
Starvation Video games director on how a younger Haymitch will probably be solid for upcoming prequel
In line with Francis Lawrence, who has helmed 4 of the 5 Starvation Video games motion pictures thus far, the casting course of for a youthful Haymitch can be much like that of President Snow in The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes.
Within the Starvation Video games prequel, Tom Blythe changed the late Donald Sutherland to painting a youthful model of Panem’s iconic dictator. Whereas speaking to ComicBook, Lawrence clarified that Haymitch’s recasting would comply with the identical beliefs, stating, “How am I going to solid an adolescent who’s believably going to turn into Donald Sutherland? Who’s going to have that form of intelligence, sophistication, a little bit irreverence, gravitas, all of that. Who’s going to embody and be plausible in the truth that he’s going to show into that man and turn into the president of Panem? And it’s the identical factor [with Haymitch].”
He then offered particulars on the traits an actor would wish to step into Woody Harrelson’s sneakers as Haymitch within the upcoming Starvation Video games prequel. “It’s a search and you must dig down and work out what are the weather that make Woody so fascinating, proper? And a few of it’s humor. A few of it’s intelligence, a few of it’s quirk, a few of it’s, there’s a darkness in him that offers him an edge. There’s a mischievousness, proper,” Lawrence acknowledged, earlier than including, “And we’re going to have to search out anyone that has all of that.”
The Starvation Video games: Dawn on the Reaping is at the moment on observe to premiere on November 20, 2026, a 12 months after the launch of Collins’ authentic e book.
