The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping casting is officially underway, and it’s only getting me more excited for one of the biggest upcoming book-to-screen adaptations. After it was announced on Wednesday who would play Haymitch and Lenore Dove Baird, we now have word about who will be playing another District 12 tribute, Maysilee Donner. And let me tell you, she’s perfect.
McKenna Grace, who most famously has played Phoebe Spengler in the recent Ghostbusters movies, has officially been cast in the role that has deep connections to the first heroine of the Hunger Games we fell in love with, Katniss. She’s the first tribute to wear the Mockingjay pin!
Francis Lawrence, who previously helmed all the other Hunger Games films, except for the first one. Earlier this month, Lawrence said the new book is his “favorite book of the series” and the movie would be a “return to form” to the original trilogy due to it being closer to Katniss’s games in the timeline.
Along with Grace’s upcoming role in Sunrise on the Reaping, the actress is booked and busy with all sorts of other big roles. She’s been cast in the next Colleen Hoover adaptation, Regretting You, along with being part of the Scream 7 cast and the second Five Nights At Freddy’s movie.
McKenna Grace’s casting only has me more excited for the next Hunger Games movie, which hits theaters on November 20, 2026.