Jesse Plemons Volunteers as Hunger Games‘ New Old Gamemaker

Casting for Sunrise connected the Reaping keeps connected a-coming. The adjacent prima to articulation the latest Hunger Games movie is Jesse Plemons, precocious of Civil War and Black Mirror.

Per Deadline, Plemons is acceptable to represent Plutarch Heavensbee, played successful the archetypal films by the precocious Philip Seymour Hoffman. (After Hoffman’s passing successful 2014, 2015’s Mockingjay Part 2 recreated him digitally and gave immoderate scenes meant for him to different characters.) In those, Plutarch is simply a Gamemaker for the Capital and yet revealed arsenic a cardinal rebellion person against them.

Sunrise, a prequel acceptable 24 years earlier the archetypal Hunger Games, sees Plutarch arsenic a young District 12 kid moving arsenic a cameraman who occasionally encourages Haymitch Abernathy to past the humor sport. Earlier successful the week, Lionsgate revealed Joseph Zada arsenic the young Haymitch, Whitney Peak arsenic his emotion Lenore Baird, and McKenna Grace arsenic Maysilee Donner.

Plutarch Heavensbee.

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The Sunrise connected the Reaping movie was announced alongside the publication of the aforesaid sanction by Suzanne Collins. After the occurrence of Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes—the President Snow-focused prequel whose book came successful 2020 and the movie successful 2023—the bid went backmost to the prequel good to amusement however Haymitch won the Games of his younker and however his beingness intersected with parents of aboriginal protagonists Katniss and Peeta.

Look for Sunrise connected the Reaping, helmed by returning Hunger Games director Francis Lawrence, to deed theaters November 20, 2026.

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