The odds are officially in all of our’ favor this September. President Snow would surely approve. The Hunger Games franchise is preparing to return to Panem with Sunrise on the Reaping, an adaptation of Suzanne Collins’ enormously successful 2025 novel centered on the Second Quarter Quell and a young Haymitch Abernathy and, while the movie itself is still a couple of months away, audiences will now have an opportunity to see it on the big screen considerably earlier.
Fans will get an exclusive sneak peek in theaters this week as The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping hits multiplexes for an extended preview as part of a special re-release of the five previous Hunger Games movies, giving fans their first opportunity to get an early big-screen look at the next chapter in the franchise.
The theatrical event will bring The Hunger Games, Catching Fire, Mockingjay – Part 1, Mockingjay – Part 2, and The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes back to theaters, allowing audiences to revisit Panem before the franchise returns with Haymitch’s story.
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Collider Exclusive · Sci-Fi Survival Quiz Which Sci-Fi World Would You Survive? The Matrix · Mad Max · Blade Runner · Dune · Star Wars
Five universes. Five completely different ways the future went wrong — or sideways, or up in flames. Only one of them is the world your instincts were built for. Eight questions will figure out which dystopia, galaxy, or desert wasteland you’d actually make it out of alive.
💊The Matrix
🔥Mad Max
🌧️Blade Runner
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🏜️Dune
🚀Star Wars
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You sense something is deeply wrong with the world around you. What do you do? The first instinct is often the truest one.
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In a world of scarcity, what resource do you guard most fiercely? What we protect reveals what we believe survival actually requires.
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What kind of threat keeps you up at night? Fear is useful data — if you’re honest about what you’re actually afraid of.
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How do you deal with authority you don’t trust? Every dystopia has a power structure. Your approach to it determines everything.
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Which environment could you actually endure long-term? Survival isn’t just tactical — it’s physical, psychological, and very much about where you are.
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Who do you want in your corner when things fall apart? The company you keep is the clearest signal of who you actually are.
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Where do you draw the line — if you draw one at all? Every survivor eventually faces a moment that tests what they’re actually made of.
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What would actually make survival worth it? Staying alive is one thing. Having a reason to is another.
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Your Fate Has Been Calculated You’d Survive In…
Your answers point to the world your instincts were built for. This is the universe your temperament, your survival instincts, and your particular brand of stubbornness were made for.
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The Resistance, Zion
The Matrix
You took the red pill a long time ago — probably before anyone offered it to you. You’re a systems thinker who can’t help but notice the seams in things.
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You’re drawn to understanding how the system works before figuring out how to break it.
You’d find the Resistance, or it would find you — your instinct for spotting constructed realities is the machines’ worst nightmare.
You function best when you have access to information and the freedom to act on it.
The Matrix built an airtight prison. You’d be the one probing the walls for the door.
The Wasteland
Mad Max
The wasteland doesn’t reward the clever or the well-connected — it rewards those who are hard to kill and harder to break. That’s you.
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You don’t need comfort, community, or a cause larger than the next horizon.
You need a vehicle, a clear threat, and enough fuel to outrun it — and you’re good at all three.
You are unsentimental enough to survive that world, and decent enough — just barely — to be something more than another raider.
In the wasteland, that distinction is everything.
Los Angeles, 2049
Blade Runner
You’d survive here because you know how to exist in moral grey areas without losing yourself completely.
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You read people accurately, keep your circle small, and ask the questions others prefer not to answer.
In a city where humanity is a legal designation rather than a feeling, you hold onto something that keeps you functional.
You’re not a hero. But you’re not lost, either.
In Blade Runner’s world, that distinction is everything.
Arrakis
Dune
Arrakis is the most hostile environment in the known universe — and you are precisely the kind of person it rewards.
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Patience, discipline, and political awareness are your core strengths — and on Arrakis, they’re survival tools.
You understand that the long game matters more than any single victory.
Others come to Dune and are consumed by it. You’d learn its logic and earn its respect.
In time, you wouldn’t just survive Arrakis — you’d begin to reshape it.
A Galaxy Far, Far Away
Star Wars
The galaxy far, far away is vast, loud, and in a constant state of violent political upheaval — and you wouldn’t have it any other way.
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You find meaning in being part of something larger than yourself — a cause, a crew, a rebellion.
You’d gravitate toward the Rebellion, or the fringes, or whatever pocket of the galaxy still believes the Empire’s grip can be broken.
You fight — not because you have to, but because standing aside isn’t something you’re capable of.
In Star Wars, that willingness is what makes all the difference.
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What Is ‘Sunrise on the Reaping’ About?
Sunrise on the Reaping takes place 24 years before the games that introduced us to Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) and Peeta Mellark (Josh Hutcherson), and begins on the 16th birthday of Haymitch Abernathy, who ends up in the 50th Hunger Games, which is celebrating its Second Quarter Quell. This time, it has twice the usual number of tributes, with 48 children selected to compete rather than 24. Haymitch encounters familiar faces from novels past while trying to find a way to “break the machine” that controls Panem from within the arena itself.
Joseph Zada (We Were Liars) will take over the role of Haymitch, which was originally played by Woody Harrelson, while Whitney Peak (Hocus Pocus 2) plays Dove Baird. It also features Mckenna Grace (Ghostbusters: Afterlife) as Maysilee Donner, Jesse Plemons (Civil War) as a young Plutarch Heavensbee, Ralph Fiennes (Harry Potter) as President Snow, Elle Fanning (The Great) as a young Effie Trinket, Kieran Culkin (Succession) will portray the middle-aged Caesar Flickerman, and Glenn Close (Fatal Attraction) will appear as the vile Drusilla Sickle. Francis Lawrence has returned to direct after previously helming every Hunger Games movie since Catching Fire, including The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes.
The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping arrives in theaters on November 20, 2026. Stay tuned to Collider for more.
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