Glenn Shut and Billy Porter have been forged in The Starvation Video games: Dawn on the Reaping.
The Deadly Attraction actress has signed as much as play Drusilla Sickle, the merciless escort to the tributes of District 12, whereas the Pose star will play her estranged husband Magno Stift, who serves because the contestants’ uninspired designer.
Information of their casting was confirmed throughout Lionsgate’s presentation at CineEurope.
It follows the latest information that Succession actor Kieran Culkin will seem within the movie as Caesar Flickerman – the character first performed by Stanley Tucci within the unique ‘Starvation Video games’ movies.
Joseph Zada will lead the flick as Haymitch Abernathy – beforehand portrayed by Woody Harrelson – with Whitney Peak set to painting his girlfriend, Lenore Dove Baird.
In the meantime, Maya Hawke will play Wiress – the previous Starvation Video games champion who now serves as a mentor for these in District 12 – whereas Mckenna Grace has been forged as District 12 Tribute Maysilee Donner.
Jesse Plemons, Kelvin Harrison Jr. and ‘Karate Child: Legends’ star Ben Wang have additionally joined The Starvation Video games: Dawn on the Reaping, and can painting Plutarch Heavensbee, Beetee and District 12 Tribute Wyatt Callow, respectively.
Rounding out the forged is Ralph Fiennes, who has signed on to play President Coriolanus Snow – the function beforehand held by the late Donald Sutherland within the unique Starvation Video games films and Tom Blyth within the 2023 prequel ‘The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes’.
In an announcement, producer Nina Jacobson mentioned: “We needed to honour Donald Sutherland by having certainly one of this technology’s biggest actors play President Snow 24 years earlier than Katniss Everdeen entered the sector.
“Working with Ralph has been on my bucket record since he traumatised me for all times in ‘Schindler’s Checklist’. It’s genuinely a thrill to welcome him to the Starvation Video games.”
‘The Starvation Video games: Dawn on the Reaping’ is ready to be directed by Francis Lawrence, who shall be working from a script written by Billy Ray.
The blockbuster is being produced by Nina Jacobson and Brad Simpson of Shade Pressure, with Cameron MacConomy serving as govt producer.
The flick is scheduled to hit cinemas in November 2026.
‘The Starvation Video games: Dawn on the Reaping’ shall be an adaptation of Suzanne Collins’ 2025 novel of the identical title, and is the second instalment of the creator’s ‘Starvation Video games’ prequel trilogy.
Set 24 years earlier than ‘The Starvation Video games’, ‘Dawn on the Reaping’ follows 16-year-old Haymitch Abernathy as he’s thrust into the brutal fiftieth Starvation Video games, the place twice the tributes imply twice the bloodshed.
As he fights to outlive, Haymitch begins to uncover the Capitol’s darkest secrets and techniques – and the true worth of insurrection.
