EXCLUSIVE: Lionsgate’s The Hunger Games: Sunrise on harvest Concluded agreements for his first two tracks, recruiting Joseph Zada for the role of Haymitch Abernathy, tribute to the District 12, with Whitney Peak to play the girlfriend of Haymitch, Lenore Dove Baird.
As you remember, Haymitch is the character played earlier in the Hunger games Woody Harrelson franchise. The rumor mill around the casting for the project has entered overdrive in recent weeks, the roles of Zada and Peak being two of the most sought after among young actors of recent memory.
“”Hunger games The franchise has long been a launch ramp for young actors remarkable, and Jo and Whitney advance this heritage with an incredible heart, depth and fire, “said Erin Westerman, the co-presenter of the Lionsgate film group, these two, without having auditioned hundreds of emotional artists, they brought these two. Haymitch has always been a favorite of fans, and its original story is one of the most anticipated in the franchise. His relationship with Lenore Dove is deeply woven in Panem’s emotional history. We can’t wait for the fans to discover the story that has shaped one of the most convincing characters in the series. “”
Addition of producer Nina Jacobson of Color Force, “Deb Zane and Dylan Jury supervised an exhaustive (and exhausting!) Research to find a young actor with the skills and the imagination to embody the young Haymitch. Jo prepared like crazy and we stole our hearts. Then Whitney breathed us like Lenore Dove. When we put both at home.
Based on the successful Dystopian novel by Suzanne Collins, published on March 18, Sunrise on harvest Revisit the world of Panem 24 years before the events of Hunger gamesFrom the morning of the 50th hunger games harvest, also known as the second quarter. The story focuses on Haymitch, 16, an intelligent and ingenious boy in the District 12, who is chosen unexpectedly for this edition of the Games, which will star in a deadly torst: twice the number of tributes, with 48 children sent to the arena to fight for their lives.
Francis Lawrence will make a script from Billy Ray. Jacobson and Brad Simpson by Color Force will produce, with Cameron Macconomy Exec Product. Meredith Wieck and Scott O’Brien supervise the Lionsgate project, for whom Robert Melnik negotiated the agreements. Disforced to be released on November 20, 2026, the new film is on the point of five franchise payments which brought in more than $ 3.3 billion worldwide.
Currently playing the main role of Charlie in the original series of Stan Australia Invisible boysBased on the successful novel by Holden Sheppard, Zada will then be seen with the Prime Video series We were liarswhich will be presented in June. More recently, he completed the production of the Netflix series by Zoe Kazan East of EdenWhere he plays alongside Florence Pugh, Mike Font and more. It is taken up by the CAA, a titleless entertainment, RGM and Goodman, Genow, Schenkman.
Better known for playing in Max’s Gossip Girl restart and Hocus Pocus 2Peak will then be considered the head of the next Sony Shark thriller Thrill Faced with Phoebe Dynevor, as well as alongside Liam Neeson and Teresa Palmer 4 children enter a bank For Amazon MGM Orion. It is replaced by CAA, Canopy’s media partners, game management and Jackoway Austen Tyerman.
