Sunrise on the Reaping follows the 50th Hunger Games, also known as the year Haymitch won. Peake joins the cast as Lenore Dove, Haymitch's love, and a descendant of Lucy Gray Baird. Baird was portrayed by Rachel Zegler in the 2023 movie The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes.

A sixth 'Hunger Games' film based on the prequel story of Haymitch Abernathy is headed to theaters in 2026 based on Suzanne Collins fifth novel.

In the novel "The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping," a young Plutarch serves as a cameraman who captures the reaping of the tributes in District 12. The new prequel film will begin filming in July. Francis Lawrence will direct the movie, which revisits the world of Panem 24 years before the events of the original "Hunger Games" story.