The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping centers on the brutal 50th Hunger Games, also known as the Second Quarter Quell. Every 25 years, Panem introduces a twisted variation of the Games, and this edition was among the cruelest because it required each district to send twice as many tributes.

Suzanne Collins' "Sunrise on the Reaping" is a prequel to "The Hunger Games" about a young Haymitch.