Tantalising details have been revealed for the next instalment of The Hunger Games with a surprise trailer dropping on Friday (Australian time).

For fans of the series, it brought a plethora of keenly anticipated details – not least the unrecognisable appearance of one of its new stars, Glenn Close.

The 78-year-old joins The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping as Drusilla Sickle, the cruel escort for the District 12 tributes.

Close, an eight-time Oscar nominee, dons fake teeth and facial prosthetics to open the trailer delivered overnight.

“Twice the tributes,” Drusilla tells a stony-faced crowd. “Twice the glory.”

Close is known for her work in films such as The Big Chill, Fatal Attraction and Dangerous Liaisons. She also played lawyer Patty Hewes on the FX series Damages.

But Close is far from the only big name to get a role in the upcoming Sunrise on the Reaping. The teaser trailer closes with chilling words from Woody Harrelson, who returns as Haymitch Abernathy.

“I think these games are gonna be different,” he says while, in the distance, a volcano erupts.

The latest screen adaptation in Suzanne Collins’ Hunger Game series is set more than two decades before the original trilogy. It tells the story of a teenage Haymitch Abernathy, played by 20-year-old Australian Joseph Zada, as he fights to survive his own Hunger Games — all while refusing to bend the knee to the ruthless Capitol.

Australian fans may recognise rising-star Zada from TV series such as Total Control and Stan Australia series Invisible Boys, as well as Australian movies Bilched and The Speedway Murders.

Ralph Fiennes is also in Sunrise on the Reaping, becoming the third actor to portray President Coriolanus Snow. Other co-stars include Elle Fanning as Effie Trinket, Billy Porter as Magno Stift, Maya Hawke as Wiress and this year’s Oscar-winner Kieran Culkin as Caesar Flickerman.

Sunrise on the Reaping follows the 2023 adaptation of The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, which starred Tom Blyth as a young will-be president Snow and Rachel Zegler as Lucy Gray Baird.

The novel on which the upcoming movie is based was released in March. The movie is destined to be in cinemas in November 2026.