Kieran Culkin is following up his Oscar win with a spot in The Starvation Video games: Dawn on the Reaping.
The actor has been solid as Caesar Flickerman within the forthcoming Lionsgate movie, The Hollywood Reporter has discovered solely. Francis Lawrence directs the film adaptation of Suzanne Collins’ best-selling novel that may hit theaters Nov. 20, 2026.
Caesar is the eccentric host of the Starvation Video games. Stanley Tucci portrayed an older model of the character within the sequence’ first 4 movies that kicked off with The Starvation Video games hitting theaters in 2012.
Beforehand introduced castmembers for Dawn on the Reaping embrace Joseph Zada, Whitney Peak, Mckenna Grace, Jesse Plemons, Kelvin Harrison Jr., Maya Hawke, Lili Taylor and Ben Wang. THR’s unique casting reporting has included Ralph Fiennes because the diabolical President Snow; Molly McCann and Iona Bell as standout e book characters Louella and Lou Lou, respectively; and Elle Fanning as Effie Trinket.
Lawrence helms the film from a script by Billy Ray that adapts Collins’ e book. Nina Jacobson and Brad Simpson produce for Shade Pressure, whereas Cameron MacConomy govt produces.
“Kieran’s scene-stealing presence and simple attraction are excellent for Caesar Flickerman, the sickeningly watchable host of Panem’s darkest spectacle,” says Lionsgate Movement Image Group co-president Erin Westerman. “Stanley Tucci made Caesar unforgettable — and now Kieran will make the function completely his personal.”
Jacobson provides, “Kieran’s magnetism, wit, and unpredictability make him an ideal match for Caesar Flickerman. A host like Caesar transforms brutality into leisure, and an actor as layered as Kieran makes positive we don’t look away.”
Meredith Wieck and Scott O’Brien oversee Dawn on the Reaping for Lionsgate. Phil Strina dealt with the deal on behalf of the studio.
The e book Dawn on the Reaping takes place in Panem on the morning of the reaping for the fiftieth Starvation Video games, 24 years earlier than the occasions in The Starvation Video games, the primary novel that revealed in 2008. The franchise’s first 5 motion pictures have surpassed $3.3 billion on the worldwide field workplace, with the preliminary 4 movies led by Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss Everdeen.
Culkin received the most effective supporting actor Academy Award earlier this 12 months for A Actual Ache and is a three-time Emmy nominee for Succession. He presently stars on Broadway in Glengarry Glen Ross alongside Bob Odenkirk and Invoice Burr. Culkin is represented by WME, Brookside Artist Administration and Related.