Jesse Plemons Joins Starvation Video games: Dawn on the Reaping

Casting for Sunrise on the Reaping retains on a-coming. The following star to hitch the most recent Starvation Video games film is Jesse Plemons, just lately of Civil Battle and Black Mirror.

Per Deadline, Plemons is about to painting Plutarch Heavensbee, performed within the authentic movies by the late Philip Seymour Hoffman. (After Hoffman’s passing in 2014, 2015’s Mockingjay Half 2 recreated him digitally and gave some scenes meant for him to different characters.) In these, Plutarch is a Gamemaker for the Capital and finally revealed as a key rebel chief in opposition to them.

Dawn, a prequel set 24 years earlier than the primary Starvation Video games, sees Plutarch as a younger District 12 child working as a cameraman who sometimes encourages Haymitch Abernathy to outlive the blood sport. Earlier within the week, Lionsgate revealed Joseph Zada because the younger Haymitch, Whitney Peak as his love Lenore Baird, and McKenna Grace as Maysilee Donner.

Plutarch Heavensbee.

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The Dawn on the Reaping film was introduced alongside the guide of the identical identify by Suzanne Collins. After the success of Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes—the President Snow-focused prequel whose book got here in 2020 and the movie in 2023—the sequence went again to the prequel nicely to point out how Haymitch received the Video games of his youth and the way his life intersected with mother and father of future protagonists Katniss and Peeta.

Search for Dawn on the Reaping, helmed by returning Starvation Video games director Francis Lawrence, to hit theaters November 20, 2026.

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