Young Royals star Edvin Ryding joins Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping cast
Edvin Ryding is headed to Panem (Getty)
Edvin Ryding is headed to Panem (Getty)
Hunger Games prequel-sequel Sunrise on the Reaping has added Young Royals star Edvin Ryding to its cast as the film enters production.
Sunrise on the Reaping, the prequel to the original Hunger Games trilogy, but sequel to Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes is adding yet more firepower to its already stacked cast.
The film has already drafted its key players in the definition of an all star cast, with Invisible Boys star Joseph Zada as a younger Haymitch Abernathy joined by Whitney Peak as his girlfriend Lenore Dove Baird, Mckenna Grace as ally and fellow tribute Maysilee Donner – and Elle Fanning as a younger version of franchise favourite, Effie Trinket.
And though he’s best known for playing Prince Wilhelm in all three seasons of Netflix’s cult queer series Young Royals – and, more recently, Swedish NATO soldier Erik Sundqvist in 28 Years Later – Edvin Ryding is now headed to Panem.
As revealed by a social media video from the franchise, Ryding has been cast as Vitus, one of the Capitol student stylists that is assigned to the four District 12 Tributes.
He is joined by Iris Apatow as Proserpina (younger sister of Effie), and Jax Guerrerd as Tibby and Sandra Förster as Hersilia.
Proserpina. Vitus. Tibby. Hersilia.
— The Hunger Games (@TheHungerGames) July 25, 2025
The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping – in theaters November 20, 2026. pic.twitter.com/msYQLj1KfH
The Hunger Games instalment also recently announced Glenn Close and Billy Porter as additions to the cast; Close will play the tributes’ wicked mentor Drusilla Sickle, and Porter, her often-inebriated husband and stylist to the tributes, Magno Stift.
Other stars that have been drafted into Panem in Sunrise on the Reaping include Kevlin Harrison Jr. as Beetee Latier, Jesse Plemons as Plutarch Heavensbee, Lili Taylor as Mags Flanagan and Maya Hawke as Wiress.
The original trilogy of novels (and quartet of film adaptations), starred Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss Everdeen and more in the 74th, 75th and (unofficial) 76th Games, in a post apocalyptic North America held under the dictatorship of the tyrannical President Snow (Donald Sutherland).
Its prequel, A Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, and its 2023 film went way back to the 10th Hunger Games, with a young-and-not-yet-as-evil Snow (Tom Blyth) watching over his tribute, Lucy Gray Baird (Rachel Zegler).
And Sunrise on the Reaping is set to land smack bang in the middle, following a young Haymitch – Katniss’s mentor – in the 50th Hunger Games, a Quarter Quell with twice as many tributes.
The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping is due in cinemas on 20 November 2026. It is in production now. Sunrise on the Reaping, the novel, is out now.
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