Ralph Fiennes Joins The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping as President Snow

Ralph Fiennes has been tapped to play President Coriolanus Snow successful Lionsgate’s latest book-to-movie adaptation, The Hunger Games: Sunrise connected the Reaping.

The Conclave and Harry Potter alum’s attachment to the upcoming movie was revealed via the authoritative Hunger Games X/Twitter relationship today. He’s the latest successful a agelong enactment of Hunger Games casting reveals, and he’s besides got 1 of the astir important parts to nail.

Ralph Fiennes. Image recognition Daniele Venturelli/WireImage.

Sunrise connected the Reaping takes spot earlier the 4 Hunger Games films led by Jennifer Lawrence and aft 2023’s aboriginal prequel, The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. The second focused connected a young Snow, played by Tom Blyth, arsenic helium is molded into Panem's jaded dictator, who the precocious Donald Sutherland portrayed successful the 2010s movie series. Fiennes’ relation successful Sunrise connected the Reaping puts him much successful the mediate of President Snow’s beingness arsenic its communicative places a lens connected District 12 tribute and eventual Hunger Games victor, Haymitch Abernathy.

“We wanted to grant Donald Sutherland by having 1 of this generation’s top actors play President Snow 24 years earlier Katniss Everdeen entered the arena,” Producer Nina Jacobson said successful a statement. “Working with Ralph has been connected my bucket database since helium traumatized maine for beingness successful Schindler's List. It’s genuinely a thrill to invited him to the Hunger Games.”

Fiennes mightiness apical the database erstwhile it comes to fans’ most-anticipated casting announcements for Sunrise connected the Reaping, but he’s acold from the archetypal sanction to person audiences looking guardant to the upcoming adaptation. Other highlights see Jesse Plemons (Breaking Bad, Civil War), who was revealed to beryllium playing a young mentation of the precocious Philip Seymour Hoffman’s Plutarch Heavensbee, arsenic good arsenic Joseph Zada (Total Control, Invisible Boys), who volition prima arsenic Haymitch.

The Hunger Games: Sunrise connected the Reaping is an adaptation of Suzanne Collins’ 2025 caller of the aforesaid sanction and is scheduled to travel to theaters November 20, 2026. Series seasoned Francis Lawrence volition nonstop from a screenplay by archetypal Hunger Games scribe Billy Ray. The movie was announced past summer, with a teaser trailer pursuing this past April.

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