Ralph Fiennes Debuts as President Snow in Jaw-Dropping Hunger Games Prequel Set Photo

Ralph Fiennes just popped up on the Hunger Games prequel set as President Coriolanus Snow, and yeah, it looks exactly like you think it would: icy hair, blue military coat, white rose, the whole authoritarian vibe dialed to 11.

What the on-set shot shows

The new photo snagged from the set of 'Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping' looks like an in-world propaganda poster for Snow. Fiennes is in Snow's signature blue uniform, sporting stark white hair that reads very much like a wig, holding a white rose, and standing in front of a city backdrop. The kicker is the text printed across it:

'Our President Coriolanus Snow: Panem's No. 1 Peacekeeper.'

Here is the very on-set detail that makes it fun: the poster is mounted on a brick wall with an industrial gas tank nearby. Translation: this is a physical prop on location, not a polished studio one-sheet. Fans noticed instantly and lost their minds on social, with one post basically screaming that the Ralph Fiennes-as-Snow poster means we are cooked. Fair.

Where this fits in the timeline

'Sunrise on the Reaping' is the sixth Lionsgate Hunger Games movie and centers on the 50th Quarter Quell. That is the Games where a young Haymitch Abernathy becomes the victor. The film also charts Snow's career arc across the Capitol ladder: starting as a Peacekeeper, moving into the Gamemaker machine, and eventually claiming the presidency. If you are keeping score on Snow actors, this puts Fiennes squarely between Tom Blyth's young Snow from 'The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes' and Donald Sutherland's older Snow from the original four films. Inside baseball, but interesting: we are now watching three different performers triangulate the same tyrant.

Cast, crew, and the release plan

• Ralph Fiennes as President Coriolanus Snow
• Joseph Zada as Haymitch Abernathy
• Mckenna Grace as Maysilee Donner
• Jesse Plemons as Plutarch Heavensbee
• Elle Fanning as Effie Trinket
• Directed by Francis Lawrence
• Screenplay by Billy Ray
• Now filming in Europe
• In theaters November 20, 2026
• Franchise context: sixth installment; Snow previously played by Donald Sutherland and Tom Blyth

Bottom line: first look at Fiennes as Snow is here, it looks sharp and deeply Capitol, and it teases a version of the character that bridges the eager striver from 'Songbirds & Snakes' to the cold autocrat we met later. The wig is doing a lot, but so is the stare.