Mckenna Grace’s character in The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping has ties to Jennifer Lawrence’s Katniss Everdeen.
It was just lately introduced that Grace, identified for starring in Ghostbusters: Afterlife and Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, will star in The Hunger Games: Sunrinse on the Reaping. Releasing in 2026, the film is directed by Francis Lawrence and also will star Joseph Zada as Haymitch and Whitney Peak as Lenore Dove Baird.
How is Katniss related to Mckenna Grace’s Starvation Video games character?
Grace will play a personality named Maysilee Donner within the new Starvation Video games prequel film. Within the guide, Donner is Haymitch’s fellow District 12 tribute who’s pressured to compete within the lethal video games.
Past each being from District 12, Donner is the unique holder of the Mockingjay pin through the fiftieth Starvation Video games. Katniss finally turns into the proprietor of this pin, as she wore it through the 74th and seventy fifth Starvation Video games earlier than it then turned an emblem of rise up in opposition to the Capitol.
Moreover, Deadline’s article relating to Grace’s casting describes Donner’s position in The Starvation Video games: Dawn on the Reaping as “the closest factor to the Katniss position that Jennifer Lawrence made well-known within the earlier movies.”
“Dawn on the Reaping revisits the world of Panem twenty-four years earlier than the occasions of The Starvation Video games, beginning on the morning of the reaping of the Fiftieth Starvation Video games, also called the Second Quarter Quell,” an outline of Suzanne Collins’ novel, which was revealed final month and is what the brand new film is predicated on, reads.
The screenplay for Dawn on the Reaping comes from Billy Ray. Nina Jacobson and Brad Simpson are producing the film, whereas Cameron MacConomy serves as the manager producer.
The Starvation Video games: Dawn on the Reaping can be launched in United States theaters on November 20, 2026, from Lionsgate.
