The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping Budget Could Be Highest in Series

According to a new report, The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping budget might be the highest the franchise has ever had.

What is The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping budget said to be?

According to a new report from Deadline, Sunrise on the Reaping’s budget is expected to be “north” of $150 million. The expectations, according to the report, are for the movie to cost anywhere from between $170-$200 million. While the number may seem high, The Hunger Games franchise is no stranger to large budgets.

The latest entry in the franchise, The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes, cost $100 million to make, while 2015’s The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 reportedly cost $160 million.

Should Deadline’s numbers be accurate, however, Sunrise on the Reaping will be the most expensive movie produced in The Hunger Games franchise. It’ll also be one of the most expensive movies to release in some time.

Sunrise on the Reaping will star Joseph Zada as a younger Haymitch Abernathy, Jesse Plemons as a younger Plutarch Heavensbee, as well as Whitney Peak, who will play Lenore Dove Baird, Haymitch’s girlfriend.

The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping will be released in United States theaters on November 20, 2026, from Lionsgate.

The Hunger Games prequel movie is being directed by Francis Lawrence, who has also helmed a number of the franchise’s previous entries. Nina Jacobson and Brad Simpson are producing the film, while Cameron MacConomy serves as executive producer.

Billy Ray is writing the script for Sunrise on the Reaping. Ray worked on the screenplay for the first Hunger Games movie, which was released in 2012, and earned an Oscar nomination for penning 2013’s Captain Phillips.

He’s also worked on the scripts for movies such as 1997’s Volcano, 2003’s Shattered Glass (which he also directed), 2004’s Suspect Zero, 2009’s State of Play, 2018’s Overlord, 2019’s Gemini Man, 2019’s Terminator: Dark Fate, 2019’s Richard Jewell, and more.

(Source: Deadline)

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