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The Hunger Games managing director Francis Lawrence has open up up about the challenges of hurtle a younger rendering of Haymitch for his solo story .
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The Hunger Games franchise will continue to lucubrate in the skinny future with the upcoming prequel , The Hunger Games : Sunrise on the Reaping , set to strike theaters in November 2026 . Directed by longtime dealership filmmakerFrancis Lawrence , the film will dig into the backstory of fan - favourite character Haymitch Abernathy , whoWoody Harrelson primitively portrayedin the originalHunger Gamesfilms .
Francis Lawrence on the Intricacies of Finding a Younger Haymitch for the NextHunger GamesFilm
WhenspeakingtoComicBook.comabout the process of casting a younger Haymitch , Lawrence remark , " If you look at [ The Ballad of Songbirds andSnakes ] , we had to redact a young translation ofDonald Sutherland , right ? It ’s the same challenge . " He add , " You ’re like , ' How am I going to vomit up a untested person who is believably go to become Donald Sutherland ? Who ’s going to have that sort of intelligence , sophistication , a piddling irreverence , gravitas , all of that ? ' It ’s a search and you have to dig down and project out what are the element that make Woody so interesting , correct ? And some of it is humour . Some of it is intelligence . Some of it is quirk . Some of it is there ’s a duskiness in him that gives him an edge . There ’s a mischievousness , correct ? So there ’s all these aspect that make Woody so great , so likable , so watchable , and such a great actor and so interesting . "
The casting process for a new Haymitch is indeed frighten off , but give the franchise ’s track record , we ’re pretty convinced that the correct actor will be found . And lie with that the pic will search Haymitch ’s early years , it ’ll be decent to get a deeper discernment of his character and the events that mould him into the wise man we know from the originalHunger Gamesseries .
Do you think there ’s anyone who could embody the popularHunger Gamescharacter for his solo story ?
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