“Sunrise on the Reaping,” which is based on the 2025 novel of the same name, is set 24 years before the first “Hunger Games” movie. Because it centers on a young Haymitch, most fans assumed that Harrelson would not be involved with the film.

Ready to return to the arena? Lionsgate dropped a first-look teaser for the upcoming Hunger Games movie Sunrise on the Reaping, a prequel centered on a teenage Haymitch Abernathy's time in the 50th Hunger Games,