SAN ANTONIO — Jesse Plemons, the Oscar-nominated actor fresh off working on a pair of films by eccentric filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos, will trade zany for spectacle with the arrival of the latest "Hunger Games" movie in 2026.

Plemons will appear in next year's big-screen return to Panem as a young Plutarch Heavensbee – the man who would go on to become a key rebellion leader in the universe, previously played by the late Philip Seymour Hoffman – in "Sunrise on the Reaping." Plemons joins a cast fairly evenly split between cinema all-stars (Ralph Fiennes, Glenn Close) and performers on the rise (Maya Hawke, Joseph Zada).

Thursday morning saw the arrival of the first full-length look at "Sunrise on the Reaping," which unfolds 24 years before the events of the first book and explores the wo

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