The odds of Jennifer Lawrence and Josh Hutcherson returning to The Hunger Games franchise are ever in their favor.
After all, the former costars will be reprising their respective roles of Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark in the upcoming The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping, a prequel centered on Woody Harrelson‘s Haymitch Abernathy character, according to multiple outlets.
The pair will likely appear in a flash-forward scene at the end of the movie. In the epilogue of the Suzanne Collins novel that the movie is adapted from, Katniss and Peeta sit down with Haymitch following their revolution in the Capitol, which occurred in Mockingjay, and learn about his tragic backstory.
“I didn’t want to have anything to do with their memorial book after the war,” Haymitch insisted Sunrise on the Reaping‘s epilogue. “What use? What point? To relive all the loss.”
Still, Katniss and Peeta embraced their former mentor and offered him a flock of geese to tend to after learning that his late love Lenora Dove Baird cared for the animal.
“Like the geese,” Haymitch remarked, “we really did mate for life.”
