Kieran Culkin is Caesar Flickerman in ‘The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping' film
'The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping" is coming together quite nicely as Kieran Culkin joins the cast!
On X (formerly Twitter), the hit movie franchise announced Culkin will take on the role of Caesar Flickerman.
A famed host of Hunger Games, Caesar is responsible for interviewing tributes the night before the competition began.
Aside from Kieran, other actors announced to join the cast are Elle Fanning (Effie), Iona Bell (Lou Lou), Molly McCann (Louella McCoy), Ralph Fiennes (President Coriolanus Snow), Ben Wang (Wyatt Callow), Lili Taylor (Mags Flanagan), Maya Hawke (Wiress), Kelvin Harrison Jr. (Beetee Latier), Jesse Plemons (Plutarch Heavensbee), McKenna Grace (Maysilee Donner), and Joseph Zada (Haymitch Abernathy).
Released as a book last March, 'Sunrise on the Reaping' is a prequel set 24 years before Katniss' first Hunger Games and is set 40 years after the first Hunger Games prequel 'Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes.'
Set for film release on November 20, 2026, the story will follow the story of Haymitch Abernathy and his experience as one of the four District 12 tributes for the 50th Hunger Games or the 2nd Quarter Quell.
Caesar Flickerman.
The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping – in theaters November 20, 2026. pic.twitter.com/hggGysk4Nd — The Hunger Games (@TheHungerGames) May 21, 2025
— Jade Veronique Yap/LA, GMA Integrated News
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