It’s Been Confirmed That Jennifer Lawrence And Josh Hutcherson Are Returning To “The Hunger Games” For The Upcoming Prequel

Major spoilers for Sunrise connected the Reaping (and the remainder of The Hunger Games franchise) ahead!

According to aggregate reputable outlets, including The Hollywood Reporter and Variety, Jen and Josh volition beryllium returning arsenic Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark successful the forthcoming Lionsgate movie, which is acceptable to beryllium released adjacent November.

Although nary circumstantial details person been confirmed astir their appearances, it’s precise apt that Katniss and Peeta volition amusement up successful a flash-forward country based connected the epilogue of SOTR, which is written by Suzanne Collins.

For context, SOTR is acceptable implicit 2 decades earlier Katniss and Peeta archetypal entered the games arsenic District 12 tributes, and centers astir Haymitch Abernathy, who we cognize arsenic their mentor.

Now is your past accidental to debar major Sunrise connected the Reaping book spoilers. You've been warned!

The heartbreaking caller tells the tragic backstory of Haymitch (played successful the archetypal movies by Woody Harrelson), who won the 50th Hunger Games but mislaid astir everything else, including his girlfriend, Lenore Dove, and his family.

But successful spite of his heartbreaking losses, the book’s epilogue reveals that Haymitch ends up somewhat enjoying a beingness with Katniss and Peeta years aft the tragic events that instrumentality spot passim the archetypal franchise — including the gyration successful Mockingjay.

Haymitch reveals that helium yet opens up to Katniss and Peeta astir his tragic backstory. “I didn’t privation to fto them in, her and Peeta, but the walls of a person’s bosom are not impregnable, not if they person ever known love…I didn’t privation to person thing to bash with their memorial publication aft the war. What use? What point? To relive each the loss,” helium says.

Haymitch notes that helium coiled up telling his communicative aft recounting beingness with his champion friend, Burdock Everdeen (aka Katniss’s dad), and his member Sid, arsenic good arsenic his enslaved with Maysilee Donner, 1 of his chap District 12 tributes successful the 50th Hunger Games. “Before I knew it, they each came tumbling out: family, tributes, friends, comrades successful arms, everybody, adjacent my love. I yet told our story,” helium says.

Later on, aft learning astir however Lenore cared for geese, Katniss surprises Haymitch with “an aged handbasket filled with goose eggs” for him to hatch. “‘I raided a fewer antithetic nests, truthful they tin breed each right,’” she tells him.

Haymitch says, “She’s not an casual person; she’s similar me, Peeta ever says. But she was smarter than me, oregon luckier. She’s the 1 who yet kept that prima from rising. Peeta fashioned immoderate benignant of incubator, and erstwhile the eggs hatched, excavation was the archetypal look those goslings saw. Sometimes they conscionable graze connected the green, but connected good days, we’ve been known to rotation connected implicit to the Meadow. Lenore Dove likes it champion there, and I’m contented wherever she’s content. Like the geese, we truly did mate for life.”

If you haven’t yet work SOTR, I highly suggest that you do, due to the fact that it is incredible. And if you’re arsenic excited arsenic I americium for the movie, fto maine cognize successful the comments!