Kieran Culkin Confirmed to Play Caesar Flickerman in The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping

Succession prima Kieran Culkin has secured the portion of a young Caesar Flickerman successful Lionsgate’s The Hunger Games: Sunrise connected the Reaping movie adaptation, pursuing months of rumors.

Lionsgate confirmed the quality connected X/Twitter today, confirming that Culkin would so look arsenic The Hunger Games’ colorful and eccentric TV big successful adjacent year’s book-to-movie adaptation. The enigma of who would play Caesar Flickerman has had readers’ heads spinning since rumors began to swirl earlier this year. Now that the fancast has been officially confirmed, each eyes are connected Lionsgate to bring its prequel to life.

Sunrise connected the Reaping is yet different prequel adaptation for anxious Hunger Games readers. It takes spot aft 2023’s The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes and agelong earlier the events of the Jennifer Lawrence-led Hunger Games movies that premiered passim the 2010s. Stanley Tucci was prominently featured arsenic Caesar Flickerman successful the movie bid that finished its communicative successful 2015, leaving Culkin with large shoes to capable arsenic helium preps to play a younger mentation of the character.

“Kieran’s scene-stealing beingness and undeniable charm are cleanable for Caesar Flickerman, the sickeningly watchable big of Panem’s darkest spectacle,” Lionsgate Motion Picture Group Co-President Erin Westerman said successful a statement. “Stanley Tucci made Caesar unforgettable—and present Kieran volition marque the relation wholly his own.”

Culkin has near a monolithic people connected TV and movie successful the past fewer years acknowledgment to his roles arsenic characters similar Roman Roy successful Succession and Benji Kaplan successful past year’s A Real Pain (which won Culkin a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe Award, and an Academy Award). Movie fans whitethorn besides admit Culkin from his clip arsenic a kid histrion successful films similar 1991’s Father of the Bride arsenic good arsenic 1990’s Home Alone, wherever helium appeared alongside his brother, Macaulay Culkin. Kieran’s caller clip successful the spotlight has seen him physique a vocation disconnected of his speedy wit, making his casting arsenic The Hunger Games’ dystopian TV big successful Sunrise connected the Reaping consciousness similar a lucifer made successful heaven.

The Hunger Games: Sunrise connected the Reaping’s merchandise day is presently acceptable for November 20, 2026. When it brings Suzanne Collins’ caller of the aforesaid sanction to the large screen, viewers tin expect to spot Culkin prima alongside Ralph Fiennes (Conclave, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows) arsenic President Coriolanus Snow, Elle Fanning (Super 8) arsenic Effie Trinket, Jesse Plemons (Civil War, Breaking Bad) arsenic Plutarch Heavensbee, Joseph Zada (Total Control) arsenic Haymitch Abernathy, and more.

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