After having portrayed one of the most intentioned pious cardinals in the recent “conclave”, Ralph Fiennes returns to much more familiar waters as the largest and most nasty villain in all of the “Hunger Games” franchise. After having had a lot of success with the film Spinoff / Prequel “The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes”, Lionsgate is entirely destroyed with the last book adaptation of the author of the series Suzanne Collins: “Sunrise on the Reaping”. The new film is intended to tell the story of a young Haymitch Abernathy, the alcoholic veteran of the games previously described as a man older by Woody Harrelson. This period requires an appearance of the fascist president Cornelius Snow, of course, and the studio officially landed in Fiennes for the role.
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The news arrives graceful of Variety, which should in fact be not surprising to anyone who followed the career of the actor of the character at this stage. Famous as none other than Lord Voldemort in the films “Harry Potter”, Fiennes has a wide experience by playing the role of the main antagonist in several films in the past. Snow was previously represented by the late, Great Donald Sutherland in the original films “Hunger Games” and again by Tom Blyth in “Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes”. However, it will be a little older this time, but no less great. In a press release, producer Nina Jacobson had this to say on the cast:
“We wanted to honor Donald Sutherland by asking one of the greatest players of this generation to play the Snow 24 years before Katniss Everdeen entered the arena. Working with Ralph has been on my list of buckets since he traumatizes me for life in the” Schindler list “. It is really a thrill to welcome him to the Hunger Games.”
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The sunrise on harvest adopts a different approach to President Snow
We could know the exact fate of President Cornelius Snow in the long term, thanks to the events of “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2” (not to mention the beloved source equipment), but that does not mean that there is not a surprise or two to discover. It starts with the casting of Ralph Fiennes, which might not have been at the top of the list of wishes for most fans for the role. Indeed, some fans on social networks began in gravity towards the idea of launching the real son of Donald Sutherland, the star of “24” Kiefer Sutherland, as a younger version of the main villain. This would have well combined with the idea of bringing Cooper Hoffman on board as the youngest Plutarch Heavensbee, entering the shoes of his own father, Philip Seymour Hoffman. None of these elements was supposed to be, of course, as Jesse Plemons was rather brought on board (with Fiennes).
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In “Sunrise on the Reaping”, Fiennes will be joined by the colleagues of actors Joseph Zada as New Haymitch, Whitney Peak as Lenore Dove Baird, McKenna Grace as Maysilee give, Maya Hawke like Wiress, Kelvin Harrison Jr. Jeffrey Wright in “Catching Fire”). The film will be directed by the pillar of the Francis Lawrence franchise, a face familiar to all those who watched, literally, any The latest films “The Hunger Games” made since 2013. The next blockbuster is based on the novel of the same name of Suzanne Collins, which was published barely a month before this press release.
“Sunrise on the Reaping” will be released in theaters on November 20, 2026.
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