Actor Peter Dinklage (Tyrion from “Game of Thrones”) has been chosen as the prologue to “The Hunger Games”, currently in production at Lionsgate.
“With production underway, we couldn’t be more excited about how this cast has come together and excited to welcome Peter Dinklage to Panem,” said Nathan Kahane, president of the Lionsgate Film Group, in a statement. “Peter is not just a fan favorite actor who brings a commanding presence to every role he plays. He is one of the best living actors. He will bring formidable and charismatic authority to the important role of Academy President.”
He will play Dean Casca Highbottom, the man credited with creating the Hunger Games but who basically tried to soften them up by introducing mentors in its tenth edition.
Originally released between 2012 and 2015, the four “Hunger Games” films portrayed the dystopian world of Panem, divided into “districts” that each year offered tributes to the Hunger Games, a competition from which only one made it out alive.
The new production will bring the latest book of the saga, written by Suzanne Collins, to the screen. Despite being released in 2020, following the success of the films, the plot is a prologue, set 64 years before Katniss Everden’s victory at the Hunger Games, and tells how it all began.
The protagonist is Lucy Gray Baird, a tribute from poor District 12. Selected to participate in the “Hunger Games”, she is led by the young Coriolanus Snow, decades before she becomes the powerful president of Panem.
Rachel Zegler, revealed in the musical “Love, Sublime Amor”, was cast in the adaptation, while the role of Snow will be played by Tom Blyth (from the series “The Golden Age”). In the plot, the future president is an 18-year-old, born in a golden cradle and eager to build his own legacy.
The cast also includes Hunter Schafer (“Euphoria”), Laurel Marsden (“Ms. Marvel”), Jason Schwartzman (“Fargo”), Ashley Liao (“Physical”), Josh Andrés Rivera (also of “Love, Sublime Love” ), Mackenzie Lansing (“Easttown Mare”) and others.
The film will once again be directed by Francis Lawrence, who has signed most of the films in the franchise, as well as screenwriter Michael Arndt and producer Nina Jacobson.
Nina Jacobson produced all four adaptations of Suzanne Collins’ books, which grossed $ 3 billion worldwide, Lawrence directed the last three, and Arndt wrote the best, “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire.”
The first is scheduled for November 16, 2023 in Brazil and the next day in the United States.
Source: Terra
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