EXCLUSIVE: Maya Hawke is the latest addition to the solid of The Starvation Video games: Dawn on the Reaping, Lionsgate‘s adaptation of the bestselling e book by Suzanne Collins. The Stranger Issues breakout will tackle the position of Wiress, former Starvation Video games champion-turned-District 12 mentor.
Hawke joins an ensemble led by Joseph Zada and Whitney Peak, who respectively play Haymitch Abernathy and Lenore Dove Baird. Others set embody Mckenna Grace as Maysilee Donner, Jesse Plemons as Plutarch Heavensbee, and Kelvin Harrison Jr. as Beetee.
The newest installment in Collins’ bestselling dystopian YA franchise was printed on March 18. The story revisits the world of Panem 24 years earlier than the occasions of The Starvation Video games, beginning on the morning of the reaping of the fiftieth Starvation Video games, also referred to as the Second Quarter Quell. Our protagonist, 16-year-old Haymitch, is a intelligent and resourceful boy from District 12 who’s unexpectedly chosen for this version of the video games, which can function a lethal twist: twice the variety of tributes, with 48 kids despatched into the sector to battle for his or her lives.
Francis Lawrence has returned to direct from a script by Billy Ray. Shade Drive’s Nina Jacobson and Brad Simpson are producing, with Cameron MacConomy exec producing. Meredith Wieck and Scott O’Brien are overseeing the undertaking for the studio, for whom Robert Melnik negotiated the offers. Slated for launch on November 20, 2026, the brand new movie comes on the heels of 5 Starvation Video games entries which have grossed greater than $3.3 billion worldwide.
Greatest identified for her position as Robin on Netflix’s Stranger Issues, which is anticipated to return this 12 months for its remaining season, Hawke lately voiced Anxiousness within the world hit Inside Out 2, additionally taking over roles in status tasks together with Bradley Cooper’s Maestro, father Ethan Hawke’s Flannery O’Connor biopic Wildcat, and Wes Anderson’s Asteroid Metropolis. Upcoming, she’ll be seen portraying Lucia Joyce, Irish dancer and daughter of author James Joyce, in a biopic from Aisling Walsh. She’s represented by CAA, Untitled Leisure, and Hansen, Jacobson, Teller.
