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Happy Hunger Games, and may the odds be ever in your favor.

Lionsgate released the teaser trailer for "The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping" on Thursday, and it was a glimpse into the origin story of Haymitch Abernathy, a character played in earlier films by Woody Harrelson.

Joseph Zada plays a younger version of Haymitch in this prequel, which takes place twenty-four years before the events of "The Hunger Games."

The new film starts on the morning of the reaping of the 50th Hunger Games, also known as the Second Quarter Quell, and the action is intense almost from the start.

Based on the beloved book series by Suzanne Collins, the film franchise has become enormously popular globally.

In addition to Zada, the new movie stars Mckenna Grace, Jesse Plemons, Maya Hawke, Elle

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