Confirming what’s been rumored, Kieran Culkin is now set to play Caesar Flickerman, host of the Starvation Video games — the function inhabited in earlier movies by Stanley Tucci — in Lionsgate‘s The Starvation Video games: Dawn on the Reaping, based mostly on the bestseller by Suzanne Collins.
Culkin joins an ensemble led by Joseph Zada and Whitney Peak, who respectively play Haynith Abernathy and his girlfriend, Lenore Dove Baird. Others set embrace 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.
Revealed March 18, the newest installment in Collins’ dystopian YA guide collection revisits the world of Panem 24 years earlier than the occasions of The Starvation Video games, beginning on the morning of the reaping of the fiftieth Starvation Video games, also called the Second Quarter Quell. The story facilities on 16-year-old Haymitch, a intelligent and resourceful boy from District 12, who’s unexpectedly chosen for this version of the video games, which is able to characteristic a lethal twist: twice the variety of tributes, with 48 kids despatched into the world to battle for his or her lives.
Francis Lawrence has returned to direct from a script by Billy Ray, with Shade Drive’s Nina Jacobson and Brad Simpson producing, and Cameron MacConomy exec producing. Meredith Wieck and Scott O’Brien are overseeing the mission for the studio and Robert Melnik negotiated offers for Lionsgate. Slated for launch on November 20, 2026, Dawn comes on the heels of 5 movies which have grossed greater than $3.3 billion worldwide.
Coming off his first Oscar nomination and win for Searchlight’s A Actual Ache, the place he starred reverse filmmaker Jesse Eisenberg, Culkin is in any other case finest recognized for his Emmy-winning efficiency in HBO’s Succession. At present, he could be seen on Broadway in a sold-out run of Glengarry Glen Ross with Bob Odenkirk and Invoice Burr.
