The OGs are set to return within the latest The Starvation Video games movie
The Starvation Video games: Dawn on the Reaping is already one of many hottest anticipated movies of 2026. Much more so now that The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed that Jennifer Lawrence and Josh Hutcherson will likely be making an look as their characters, Katniss and Peeta.
Lawrence and Hutcherson first appeared as Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark within the 2012 movie, The Starvation Video games. Directed by Gary Ross and tailored from Suzanne Collins’ dystopian novel franchise of the identical title, the movie follows Katniss’ journey after she volunteers to participate in a televised competitors that pits teenagers towards each other in a combat for survival.
Dawn on the Reaping, Collins’ latest novel that was launched in March this yr, is ready in Panem on the morning of the fiftieth Starvation Video games — a complete 24 years earlier than the occasions that will lead Katniss and Peeta to turn out to be symbols of hope and rebel. Additionally it is the sequel to 2023’s The Starvation Video games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes, which featured an all-star forged together with Rachel Zegler, Tom Blyth, and Hunter Schafer.
No additional particulars about Lawrence and Hutchinson’s roles in Dawn on the Reaping had been confirmed by The Hollywood Reporter, other than the truth that the 2 actors could be reprising their roles as Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark. Given all the things we all know thus far in regards to the movie, and the way, final we noticed, Katniss and Peeta had been married and had youngsters, we speculate that their appearances are more likely to be flashforward occasions. We extremely doubt they’re going to seem in the identical period as a youthful Haymitch Abernathy (Joseph Zada), who serves because the protagonist in Dawn on the Reaping.
No matter how and the place we’ll see Katniss and Peeta, we’re desirous to see Lawrence and Hutcherson return to a franchise they helped deliver to the silver display. We’ll discover out extra about their inclusion in Dawn on the Reaping when it debuts in theaters on Nov. 20, 2026.
