The Hunger Games: Sunrise On The Reaping Adds Elle Fanning as Effie

The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping has cast Elle Fanning as Effie Trinket.

Today, we have a third casting announcement for The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping. Elle Fanning will play Effie Trinket, a member of the stylist team for District 12. Elizabeth Banks played this role in the original Hunger Games films.

Fanning is known for her roles in A Complete Unknown, Maleficent, and Super 8. Her next project will see her play a synthetic human in Dan Tachtenberg’s upcoming Predator: Badlands. She is represented by UTA, TFC Management, and Hansen Jacobson.

The Lionsgate film is based on Suzanne Collins’s bestselling novel, which was published on March 18 and received wide acclaim. The book sold 1.5 million copies in its first week on sale in the U.S., UK, Ireland, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. The 1.2 million copies sold in its first week in the U.S. are twice the first-week sales of The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes and three times the sales of Mockingjay.

STORY

The story takes place 40 years after the prequel, The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes, which focused on a young Coriolanus Snow and 24 years before the original tale led by Katniss Everdeen. The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping is set for a November 20, 2026, release in cinemas. This new prequel tells the events of the second Quarter Quell (the fiftieth Hunger Games) in which fan favourite character Haymitch Abernathy is the lead.

DIRECTION

Francis Lawrence, who directed all the films from the franchise except the first one, is again back in the director’s chair. Billy Ray, who co-wrote the screenplay for the first film, is also back. Color Force’s Nina Jacobson and Brad Simpson produce, and Cameron MacConomy serves as an executive producer.

Stay tuned for more casting news and announcements as filming for The Hunger Games: Sunrise On The Reaping gets closer.

 

 

 

 

 

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