New ‘Hunger Games’ movie stars Joseph Zada as young Haymitch Abernathy

Joseph Zada. Picture: Hugh Stewart through Untitled Leisure and Inventive Artists Company

Joseph Zada Will play the younger Haymitch Abernathy within the movie adjustment of “Dawn on the Remping”, a prequel for the novels “Starvation Video games”, which is deliberate for a launch of November 2026.

The casting of Zada ​​was introduced by the “Starvation Video games” Social Mediaplatforms on Thursday 24 April, whereas displaying a web page with “Dawn on the Reeping’s” first chapter.

“Haymitch Abernathy. The Starvation Video games: Dawn on the Remping – in theaters on November 20, 2026,” was the publish.

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Within the meantime, it was confirmed that Whitney Peak was publishing Haymitch’s love curiosity on the identical day, Lenore Dove Baird. A web page of the primary efficiency of the character within the novel was additionally included within the publish.

“Lenore Dove Baird. The Starvation Video games: Dawn on the Remping – In Theaters November 20, 2026,” learn the publish.

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Particulars in regards to the actors who’re set as much as painting Maysile Donner, Louella McCoy, Wyatt Callow, Willamae Abernathy, Sid Abernathy, Burdock Everdeen and Coriolanus Snow should nonetheless be introduced.

“Dawn on the Remping” by Suzanne Collins is the second prequel of the trilogy “The Starvation Video games”. It tells the story of younger Haymitch Abernathy and the way he managed to win the fiftieth Starvation Video games, or the second quarter of Quell. The novel was launched in March 2025.

Woody Harrelson performed because the older Haymitch Abernathy within the unique movie trilogy. In the course of the occasions of the novel, he was the second and solely dwelling victor of the Starvation Video games of District 12 and he was already drunk and withdrawn.

Earlier than he was forged as younger Haymitch, Zada ​​performed within the collection ‘We Had been Liars’, ‘Invisible Boys’ and ‘Complete Management’ and the movies ‘Bilched’.