"The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping" is based on the most recent novel in the series by Suzanne Collins. The film will be directed by Francis Lawrence from a script by Billy Ray. Lawrence has helmed all of "The Hunger Games" films save for the very first one, which was directed by Gary Ross.

Glenn Close and Billy Porter are the latest additions to the cast of The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping.

It’s not sunset on Sunrise On The Reaping cast announcements just yet. Billy Porter and Glenn Close have both joined the extensive cast of the new Hunger Games film, which also includes Joseph Zada as surviving victor Haymitch Abernathy (later played by Woody Harrelson), Jesse Plemons, Ralph Fiennes, Elle Fanning, Kieran Culkin, and more.