Kieran Culkin Joins ‘The Hunger Games: Sunrise On The Reaping’ As Caesar Flickerman

Confirming what’s been rumored, Kieran Culkin is now set to play Caesar Flickerman, host of the Hunger Games — the position inhabited in previous motion pictures through Stanley Tucci — in Lionsgate‘s The Hunger Games: Sunrise at the Reaping, in accordance with the bestseller through Suzanne Collins.

Culkin joins an ensemble led through Joseph Zada and Whitney Peak, who respectively play Haynith Abernathy and his female friend, Lenore Dove Baird. Others set come with 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 sector of Panem 24 years earlier than the occasions of The Hunger Games, beginning at the morning of the reaping of the 50th Hunger Games, sometimes called the Second Quarter Quell. The tale facilities on 16-year-old Haymitch, a suave and resourceful boy from District 12, who’s rapidly selected for this version of the video games, which can function a dangerous twist: two times the selection of tributes, with 48 kids despatched into the sector to struggle for his or her lives.

Francis Lawrence has returned to direct from a script through Billy Ray, with Color Force’s Nina Jacobson and Brad Simpson generating, and Cameron MacConomy exec generating. Meredith Wieck and Scott O’Brien are overseeing the venture for the studio and Robert Melnik negotiated offers for Lionsgate. Slated for unencumber on November 20, 2026, Sunrise comes at the heels of 5 motion pictures that experience grossed greater than $3.3 billion international.

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 a different way perfect recognized for his Emmy-winning efficiency in HBO’s Succession. Currently, he can also be observed on Broadway in a sold-out run of Glengarry Glen Ross with Bob Odenkirk and Bill Burr.