Kieran Culkin será Caesar Flickerman en ‘The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping’

Rumors become official.

Lionsgate confirms the signing of the recent Oscar winner, Kieran Culkin (A Real Pain) to Interpret Caesar Flickerman in The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping. The role was played by Stanley Tucci in the deliveries starring Jennifer Lawrence (Vía Deadline).

This is the most recent cast member announced for the new installment of the saga The Hunger Games of the director Francis Lawrence.

Culkin joins a cast that includes Joseph ass (Invisible Boys, East of Eden) y Whitney Peak (4 Kids Walk into a Bank, Gossip Girl), as co -star; with McKenna Grace (Scream 7, Ghostbusters: Afterlife), Jesse Plemons (The Power of the Dog, Civil War), Kelvin Harrison Jr. (Genius, Elvis), Maya Hawke (Stranger Things), Lili Taylor (The Conjuring), Ben Wang (Karate Kids: Legends), Ralph Fiennes (Conclave, Harry Potter), y Elle Fanning (A Complete Unknown, Maleficent).

Zada will give life to the tribute of District 12, Haymith Abernathy, Peak to his girlfriend, Lenore Dove Baird, Grace as Maysilee Donner, another tribute from the 12th district, plemons as a younger version of the main future vigilant and leader of the rebellion, Plutarch Heavensbee, previously interpreted by Philip Seymur Hoffman in Mockingjay Part 1 & 2Harrison Jr. as Beete, Hawke as Wires, former Game Champion and turned into a mentor of the 12th district, Taylor as Mags, Wang as Wyatt Callow, tribute of the 12th district, fiennes such as President Snow, and Fanning as a young Effie Trinket, Haymitch's stylist.

Culkin won the Oscar for the best cast actor last March for his interpretation in A Real Pain. He previously won the Emmy for his role in the acclaimed HBO series, Succession. His film debut was marked by the classic Home Aloneplaying Fuller, the cousin of Kevin McCallister Macaulay Culkin) that takes a lot of tail soda before sleeping.

The Prequel will be based on the homonymous novel by Suzanne Collins which was published on March 18.

The plot It takes place in the world of panem 40 years after the prequel events Ballads of Songbirds & Snakes and 24 years before the saga events starring Jennifer Lawrence.

The story Start in the morning of the harvest of the 50th edition of The hunger games When Haymith was chosen as one of the unfortunate taxes to fight until death. Woody Harrelson played Haymith's role in the original saga next to Lawrence as Katniss Everdeen.

Lionsgate describes the project like this:

“While The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes developed 64 years before the events of the [películas] original, Hunger games: dawn in harvesting 24 years before Jennifer Lawrence movies in Panem, Starting in the morning of the harvest of the 50th Hunger Games, also known as the second vassalage of the twenty -five.”

“Those games are an important event in the canon since the winner was Haymith Abernathythe only winner of district 12 before Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) and Peeta Mellark (Josh Hutcherson). Haymmitch continues to become a mentor, a character in the original films played by Woody Harrelson.”

Lawrence will direct Billy Ray's script (The Hunger Games, Captain Phillips).

Lawrence has directed all franchise deliveries since The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013), including prequel The Ballad of the Songbirds & Snakes (2023).

The novel sold 1.5 million copies worldwide in its first week, three times more what the trilogy sold in its first week Mockingjay.

Nina Jacobson and Brad Simpson will produce the project, with Cameron Macconomy as executive producer.

THE FIVE FILMS OF THE FRANCHIA The hunger gamesThey have a combined box office of more than $ 3.3 billion worldwide.

Lionsgate plans the premiere in Cinema of the Sixth Delivery for the November 20, 2026.