Elle Fanning Plays Effie Trinket

Elle Fanning is ready to hitch the fray in The Starvation Video games: Dawn on the Reaping.

The Emmy-nominated actress has been forged as Effie Trinket within the forthcoming Lionsgate movie, The Hollywood Reporter has discovered completely. Francis Lawrence directs the film adaptation of Suzanne Collins‘ best-selling novel that can hit theaters Nov. 20, 2026.

Within the characteristic, Effie serves because the stylist for Haymitch Abernathy (performed by Joseph Zada) within the preparation for the fiftieth Starvation Video games. Elizabeth Banks portrayed an older model of Effie within the sequence’ first 4 movies that kicked off with The Starvation Video games hitting theaters in 2012.

Beforehand introduced castmembers embody Zada, Whitney Peak, Mckenna Grace, Jesse Plemons, Kelvin Harrison Jr., Maya Hawke, Lili Taylor and Ben Wang. THR’s unique reporting has included the latest information that Ralph Fiennes has been forged because the diabolical President Snow and that Molly McCann and Iona Bell will painting standout guide characters Louella and Lou Lou, respectively.

“From the moment Suzanne released the book, one question echoed from fans around the world: Who will play Effie?” says Lionsgate Movement Image Group co-president Erin Westerman. “Elizabeth Banks made her iconic — so who could honor that legacy while bringing us back to Effie’s early, most formative days? For us, there was only one answer. Elle Fanning’s career has been transcendent. She has a rare presence — warm, sparkling and layered with extraordinary depth. She was the undeniable fan favorite from the start, and we’re honored she answered the call. The odds, it turns out, were in our favor.”

Lawrence helms the film from a script by Billy Ray that adapts Collins’ guide. Nina Jacobson and Brad Simpson produce for Colour Pressure, whereas Cameron MacConomy government produces.

Meredith Wieck and Scott O’Brien oversee Dawn on the Reaping for Lionsgate. Robert Melnik dealt with the deal on behalf of the studio.

The guide 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 printed 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.

Fanning’s latest credit embody final 12 months’s Oscar-nominated characteristic A Full Unknown and Joachim Trier’s Sentimental Worth, premiering at Cannes this week. She may be seen in such forthcoming initiatives because the Apple TV+ sequence Margo’s Received Cash Troubles and twentieth Century’s fall film Predator: Badlands.

The actress is represented by UTA, TFC Administration and Hansen Jacobson.