(Left) Glenn Shut arrives on the 14th Governors Awards within the Ray Dolby Ballroom at Ovation Hollywood on Tuesday, January 9, 2024. Credit score/Supplier: Trae Patton / @ A.M.P.A.S. Copyright: ©A.M.P.A.S. (Proper) Billy Porter arrives on the crimson carpet of The 91st Oscars® on the Dolby® Theatre in Hollywood, CA on Sunday, February 24, 2019. Credit score/Supplier: Phil McCarten / ©A.M.P.A.S. Copyright: ©A.M.P.A.S.
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- Glenn Shut and Billy Porter are the most recent addition to the brand new ‘Starvation Video games’ prequel.
- Jhaleil Swaby can also be aboard, taking part in the character of Panache.
- Francis Lawrence is once more directing the film.
Whereas the cameras are actually rolling on the brand new ‘Starvation Video games’ franchise entry, prequel providing ‘Dawn on the Reaping’, you may suppose that the stream of casting would dry up. You’d be mistaken!
Two extra large names and extra of a rising star are the most recent folks to be introduced, as Deadline stories that Glenn Shut can be Drusilla Sickle, Billy Porter has the function of Magno Stift and Jhaleil Swaby (‘The Lake’) will play Panache.
Return to the world of Panem 24 years earlier than the occasions of The Starvation Video games for the reaping of the fiftieth Starvation Video games, also referred to as the Second Quarter Quell. Learn the Plot
Right here’s ‘Dawn on the Reaping’ producer Nina Jacobson on Shut’s casting:
“Glenn Shut is a dream Drusilla. She brings a lot of her mind and creativeness to every function, creating characters who’re unforgettable and iconic. I feel Glenn and Francis could have a ball bringing Drusilla from the web page to the display screen.”
And concerning Porter:
“Billy is a type of uncommon performers who can dazzle and devastate in equal measure on stage and display screen. He made an indelible impression on me after we labored collectively on Pose, each as an actor and a human being. Casting this present has felt like successful the lottery each time one in all our idols stated sure to us.”
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What’s the story of ‘The Starvation Video games: Dawn on the Reaping’?
‘The Starvation Video games: Dawn on the Reaping’ is scheduled for launch on November 20, 2026. Picture: Lionsgate.
Whereas the earlier prequel occurred 64 years earlier than the occasions of the unique trilogy, ‘The Starvation Video games: Dawn on the Reaping’ is ready 24 years earlier than that trio of Jennifer Lawrence movies on the earth of Panem, commencing on the morning of the reaping of the fiftieth Starvation Video games, also referred to as the Second Quarter Quell.
These video games are an essential occasion within the canon because the victor was Haymitch Abernathy, the one winner from District 12 earlier than Lawrence’s Katniss Everdeen and Josh Hutcherson’s Peeta Mellark’s tie win. Haymitch continues on to turn into a mentor, a personality within the unique films performed by Woody Harrelson.
Who else has been solid in ‘The Starvation Video games: Dawn on the Reaping’?
(Left) Joseph Zada to star as Haymitch Abernathy in ‘The Starvation Video games: Dawn on the Reaping’. Picture credit score: Hugh Stewart. (Proper) Whitney Peak to star as Lenore Dove Bard in ‘The Starvation Video games: Dawn on the Reaping’. Picture: Kate Whyte.
The solid additionally contains Joseph Zada and Whitney Peak, who will play Haymitch Abernathy and the lady he loves, Lenore Dove Baird.
Ralph Fiennes is the newest actor to play the calculating Coriolanus Snow, who we meet as a youthful man in earlier prequel ‘The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes,’ there performed by Tom Blyth and was most famously portrayed by Donald Sutherland as President Snow within the unique 4 films.
Maya Hawke, most lately seen in ‘Maestro’ and ‘The Kill Room’ and who offered the voice of Nervousness in ‘Inside Out 2,’ can be Wiress, former Starvation Video games champion–turned–District 12 mentor.
Lili Taylor, as Deadline has discovered, can be Mags, one other former champion who’s now a mentor for one of many District 12 tributes. And Ben Wang, who broke out in Disney+ collection ‘American Born Chinese language’ and can be one of many leads of ‘Karate Child: Legends,’ has landed the function of District 12 Tribute Wyatt Callow.
Along with the 2 leads, we additionally now know that McKenna Grace, who has appeared within the current ‘Ghostbusters’ films, can be within the film as Maysilee Donner, Haymitch’s fellow District 12 Tribute, whereas Jesse Plemons has the function of Plutarch Heavensbee, as delivered to life by Philip Seymour Hoffman within the unique films.
Kieran Culkin accepts the award for Male Supporting Actor – Movement Image on the 82nd Annual Golden Globe Awards, airing stay from the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California on Sunday, January 5, 2025, at 8 PM ET/5 PM PT, on CBS and streaming on Paramount+. Picture: Sonja Flemming/CBS ©2025 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Lastly, current Academy Award winner Kieran Culkin is to play Caesar Flickerman (the eccentric host character performed within the first movie collection by Stanley Tucci).
As for the brand new additions?
Shut’s Sickle is the merciless escort to the District 12 Tributes, whereas Porter’s Stift is her estranged husband and the Tributes’ uninspired designer.
Swaby’s Panache, in the meantime is a crude and aggressive profession tribute from District 1, identified for his vanity and ruthlessness.
‘The Starvation Video games: Dawn on the Reaping’: Collins and the filmmakers discuss
Director Francis Lawrence in ‘The Starvation Video games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes.’ Picture Credit score: Murray Shut.
Right here’s Suzanne Collins’ assertion on the brand new guide and film:
“With ‘Dawn on the Reaping’, I used to be impressed by David Hume’s concept of implicit submission and, in his phrases, ‘the easiness with which the various are ruled by the few… The story additionally lent itself to a deeper dive into using propaganda and the ability of those that management the narrative. The query ‘Actual or not actual?’ appears extra urgent to me daily. From the start, Lionsgate has been a beautiful house and accomplice for the ‘Starvation Video games’ franchise, and I’m very excited to be collaborating with Adam and the crew as we convey this subsequent story to theaters in 2026.”
And right here’s Lionsgate Movement Image Group Chair Adam Fogelson:
“Suzanne Collins is a grasp storyteller and our inventive north star. We couldn’t be extra lucky than to be guided and trusted by a collaborator whose expertise and creativeness are so constantly sensible. We all know ‘Starvation Video games’ followers worldwide can be spellbound by the place Suzanne has centered this subsequent extraordinary story. The Second Quarter Quell is known and looms giant over the historical past of the Video games, even into the time of Katniss Everdeen a quarter-century later. Like followers across the globe, we’re eagerly anticipating this thrilling return to Panem.”
When will ‘The Starvation Video games: Dawn on the Reaping’ be in theaters?
Lionsgate could have the brand new film in theaters on November twentieth, 2026.
‘The Starvation Video games: Dawn on the Reaping’ opens in theaters on November 20, 2026.