The manufacturing group behind The Starvation Video games have put out casting name for “one fortunate fan” to star in The Starvation Video games: Dawn on the Reaping – which is able to hit cinemas in November 2026.
The upcoming movie will probably be directed by Francis Lawrence, from a script by Billy Ray that adapts Suzanne Collins‘ best-selling novel of the identical identify. Nina Jacobson and Brad Simpson produce for Shade Power, whereas Cameron MacConomy govt produces.
The storyline takes place 24 years earlier than the occasions of the primary Starvation Video games ebook and movie, following the fiftieth Starvation Video games, wherein Haymitch Abernathy (initially performed by Woody Harrelson) competed.
Now, the Starvation Video games franchise has posted on their official X account to ask followers who’re fascinated about having a task in The Starvation Video games: Dawn on the Reaping to audition. Candidates are requested to behave out a scene, carry out a music, or “shock” with a brand new expertise.
No earlier expertise is required, and all abilities are welcome. Video audition tapes have to be underneath a minute lengthy, and the complete algorithm might be discovered on Lionsgate’s web site right here.
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That is an official casting name: one fortunate fan will probably be chosen for a task in Dawn on the Reaping.
To audition, present us your greatest: act out a scene, carry out a music, or shock us with one thing utterly new. All abilities welcome. No earlier expertise… pic.twitter.com/s4G3pcNBVq
— The Starvation Video games (@TheHungerGames) Might 23, 2025
Not too long ago, it was introduced that Ralph Fiennes has joined the forged of the upcoming Starvation Video games prequel and can play fictional dictator President Snow. He joins Joseph Zada, Whitney Peak, Mckenna Grace, Jesse Plemons, Kelvin Harrison Jr., Maya Hawke, Lili Taylor and Ben Wang who’ve beforehand been introduced as castmembers.
The character was initially performed by Donald Sutherland, who died final 12 months aged 88. “We needed to honor Donald Sutherland by having one among this era’s best actors play President Snow 24 years earlier than Katniss Everdeen entered the world,” producer Jacobson informed Hollywood Reporter.
“Working with Ralph has been on my bucket listing since he traumatised me for all times in Schindler’s Record,” Jacobson added. “It’s genuinely a thrill to welcome him to the Starvation Video games.”
The upcoming movie would be the sixth instalment of the Starvation Video games franchise. The primary 4 films, specializing in Jennifer Lawrence’s Katniss Everdeen, have been launched between 2012 and 2015, all of which have been field workplace hits.
The final Starvation Video games movie, The Ballad Of Songbirds And Snakes, acquired a four-star overview from NME, which referred to as it “the very best of the franchise” owing to the movie’s “tense, paranoid latter half”.