Hot off the success of The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, Hollywood is adapting Suzanne Collins' new Hunger Games prequel novel, Sunrise on the Reaping, into a major motion picture. And unlike Ballad,

Released in March, Sunrise on the Reaping is the fifth novel in Collins’ blockbuster series, which revisits the dystopian world of Panem 24 years before the events of The Hunger Games. It is the American author’s first book since the publication of The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes in 2020.

Oscar nominee Jesse Plemons ( Breaking Bad, Fargo ) has been cast as Plutarch Heavensbee in Lionsgate’s  The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping , its adaptation of the bestselling book by Suzanne Collins.