Confirming what’s been rumored, Kieran Culkin is now set to play Caesar Flickerman, host of the Hunger Games — the function inhabited in earlier movies by Stanley Tucci — in Lionsgate‘s The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping, based mostly on the bestseller by Suzanne Collins.
Culkin joins an ensemble led by Joseph Zada and Whitney Peak, who respectively play Haynith Abernathy and his girlfriend, Lenore Dove Baird. Others set embrace Mckenna Grace as Maysilee Donner, Jesse Plemons as Plutarch Heavensbee, Kelvin Harrison Jr. as Beetee, Maya Hawke as Wiress, Lili Taylor as Mags, Ben Wang as Wyatt Callow, Ralph Fiennes as President Snow, and Elle Fanning as Effie Trinket.
Published March 18, the newest installment in Collins’ dystopian YA e book collection revisits the world of Panem 24 years earlier than the occasions of The Hunger Games, beginning on the morning of the reaping of the fiftieth Hunger Games, also called the Second Quarter Quell. The story facilities on 16-year-old Haymitch, a intelligent and resourceful boy from District 12, who’s unexpectedly chosen for this version of the video games, which can characteristic a lethal twist: twice the variety of tributes, with 48 youngsters despatched into the sector to battle for his or her lives.
Francis Lawrence has returned to direct from a script by Billy Ray, with Color Force’s Nina Jacobson and Brad Simpson producing, and Cameron MacConomy exec producing. Meredith Wieck and Scott O’Brien are overseeing the venture for the studio and Robert Melnik negotiated offers for Lionsgate. Slated for launch on November 20, 2026, Sunrise comes on the heels of 5 movies which have grossed greater than $3.3 billion worldwide.
Coming off his first Oscar nomination and win for Searchlight’s A Real Pain, the place he starred reverse filmmaker Jesse Eisenberg, Culkin is in any other case finest recognized for his Emmy-winning efficiency in HBO’s Succession. Currently, he will be seen on Broadway in a sold-out run of Glengarry Glen Ross with Bob Odenkirk and Bill Burr.