Ralph Fiennes builds a bridge between two Snows in Hunger Games' "Origins"

Joseph Zada's hopeful young Haymitch and Maya Hawke's sharp-minded Wiress lead a featurette about the people Panem's survivors used to be.

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The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping (2026) Special Feature 'Origins' – Joseph Zada

"All machines can be broken." Maya Hawke says it as Wiress in the first seconds of "Origins," Lionsgate's new featurette for The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping. It is the Wiress fans never met, still clever and steady and years away from the shaken survivor of the earlier films.

That is the idea behind the whole short video. Director Francis Lawrence explains that the film shows young versions of many familiar characters, built around Haymitch Abernathy. Joseph Zada talks about playing Haymitch's innocence, love and hope before hardship arrives. Archive footage of Woody Harrelson's older Haymitch, telling Katniss to "Stay alive," shows how far that boy has to travel.

Ralph Fiennes has a different problem. His Snow sits at the height of his power, between Tom Blyth's young Coriolanus and Donald Sutherland's aging president. "I come with a great aspiration to be a plausible precursor to Donald and descendant of Tom's," Fiennes says.

Elle Fanning's Effie Trinket is an ambitious fashion student loyal to the Capitol, and Ben Wang, who plays Wyatt Callow, describes working backward to imagine Haymitch a quarter century earlier. Jesse Plemons, the new Plutarch Heavensbee, joins cast members on the quiet first signs of rebellion. One line sets out the plan: if they can make the Capitol stop the Games, people will know they can stop the Capitol too.

The video passed 650,000 views in its first twelve hours. Its comment section was busier still, with several times as many comments as the channel's Shorts usually collect in a full day. Readers of the novel are bracing for scenes they already know will hurt. Some point out how strange and sad it is to see Wiress whole. Others hear an echo of Philip Seymour Hoffman, the original Plutarch, in Plemons' voice.

A second post pointing to the featurette also started strongly. It follows a homecoming video from three days earlier in which Zada returns to Sydney.

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A short featurette that ran far ahead of what Lionsgate's Shorts usually draw on their first day, with a second post about it close behind.

the video's first day

usual first day here

11,515

this video

946,122

subscribers

3,070,000

no significant change in the last 7 days

total views

3,531,639,461

views per day

1,001,948

typical day: 1,477,894

the video

views

652,953

likes

2,106

comments

94

days online

1

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

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4,310,000

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3,880,000

Jurassic World

3,140,000

Lionsgate Movies

3,070,000

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3,000,000

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2,240,000

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