The odds of Jennifer Lawrence and Josh Hutcherson returning to The Hunger Games franchise are always in their favor.
After all, according to multiple news outlets, the former co-stars will be reprising their roles as Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark in the new Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping, a prequel centered around Woody Harrelson’s Haymitch Abernathy.
The pair will likely appear in a flash-forward scene at the end of the film. In the epilogue of Suzanne Collins’ novel, on which the film is based, Katniss and Peeta sit down with Haymitch and learn of his tragic backstory after the revolution at the Capitol in Mockingjay.
“I wanted nothing to do with their memorial books after the war,” Haymitch argued in the epilogue to Sunrise. “What’s the use? What’s the point? To make up for all the losses.”
However, when Katniss and Peeta learn that their late lover, Lenora Dove Baird, cared for geese, they embrace their former teacher and offer to take care of the flock.
“Like geese, we really mated for life,” Haymitch said.
