Five months after announcing an open casting call, Lionsgate has found a fan to star in The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping.
Devon Singletary has been cast in the sixth installment of the Hunger Games series, scheduled to be released in theaters on November 20, 2026.
Singletary’s reaction to the news was captured on video and posted on the Hunger Games Instagram page as an official announcement. Singletary is a Florida-based actor and filmmaker.
“I’m shocked,” he said in the video. “I’m really speechless. I’m so excited.”
Singletary was joined in congratulations by cast members McKenna Grace, Whitney Peake and Joseph Zada. It was also announced that he will play Blair, Haymitch Abernathy’s best friend, and Bardock Everdeen, Katniss’s father, in the Hunger Games prequel.
The video also showed Singletary arriving at the trailer on the first day of filming, excited to be a part of the film.
“I love the book “Sunrise of the Reap,” he said. “It’s a great honor to be chosen for The Hunger Games.”
In May, Lionsgate announced open auditions for fans to act out their favorite scenes, play their favorite songs and improvise for a chance to be chosen for a role in “The Hunger Games: Dawn of the Reap.”
As previously reported, Francis Lawrence, who has directed all Hunger Games films since 2012, will be returning to the prequel series.
Rounding out the cast are Glenn Close, Kieran Culkin, Elle Fanning, Ralph Fiennes, Kelvin Harrison Jr., Maya Hawke, Jesse Plemons, Billy Porter and Lili Taylor, Iris Apatow, Edvin Ryding, and Ben Wang.
“Sunrise on the Reaping,” based on the novel of the same name by Suzanne Collins, revisits the world of Panem nearly a quarter-century after the events of the original “Hunger Games” saga. The story begins on the morning of the reaping of the 50th Hunger Games, known as the Second Quarter Quell, when Haymitch Abernathy enters the dangerous arena.
