Kieran Culkin will play Caesar Flickerman, host of the Hunger Games — the role inhabited in earlier films by Stanley Tucci — in Lionsgate‘s The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping, based on the bestseller by Suzanne Collins. Published March 18, the latest installment revisits the world of Panem 24 years before the events of The Hunger Games, starting on the morning of the reaping of the 50th Hunger Games, also known as the Second Quarter Quell. The story centers on 16-year-old Haymitch, a clever and resourceful boy from District 12, who’s unexpectedly chosen for this edition of the games, which will feature a deadly twist: twice the number of tributes, with 48 children sent into the arena to battle for their lives. “The Hunger Games: Sunrise On the Reaping” will be out November 20, 2026.