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Ralph Fiennes to Take over President Snow Role in 'Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping'
- Oscar-Nominated English actor Ralph Fiennes will portray President Coriolanus Snow in the Hunger Games prequel film Sunrise on the Reaping, releasing November 20, 2026.
- The casting follows the adaptation of Suzanne Collins' 2025 novel, which explores the 50th Hunger Games set 24 years before the original trilogy led by Jennifer Lawrence.
- Sunrise on the Reaping focuses on Haymitch Abernathy's early story during the 50th Hunger Games, directed by series veteran Francis Lawrence, who helmed prior films except the original 2012 movie.
- Producer Nina Jacobson explained that to pay tribute to Donald Sutherland, they cast one of today’s top actors as President Snow, portraying the character decades before Katniss Everdeen's story began.
- Fiennes’ role places him deeper into Snow’s life as the authoritarian ruler of Panem, following Donald Sutherland’s portrayal and Tom Blyth’s younger version in the 2023 prequel film.
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He was trained as a stage actor, now the British Ralph Fiennes embodies evil again in a Hollywood film: In »Die Tribute von Panem« he takes on the role of Coriolanus Snow by Donald Sutherland.
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