Peter Dinklage to function in The Hunger Games prequel

Game of Thrones alum Peter Dinklage is the newest addition to the forged of Lionsgate’s The Hunger Games prequel film The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. The upcoming movie is the newest venture within the dystopian young-adult franchise primarily based on Suzanne Collins’ novels. It is being tailored from Collins’ 2020 e book of the identical identify, which takes place many years earlier than Katniss Everdeen’s (Jennifer Lawrence) adventures in The Hunger Games.

Dinklage joins the forged which additionally consists of Tom Blyth as younger Coriolanus Snow, Rachel Zegler as tribute Lucy Gray Baird and Hunter Schafer as Tigris Snow. The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes follows Snow, years earlier than he would turn out to be the tyrannical President of the fictional nation Panem, as he’s chosen to be the mentor of the tenth Hunger Games, a televised occasion by which youngsters are chosen through lottery to battle to the demise.

According to Variety, Dinklage will essay the function of Casca Highbottom, who’s the dean of the Academy, the place Snow is a pupil.

Francis Lawrence, who helmed three of the 4 The Hunger Games movies, is returning to direct the upcoming Lionsgate manufacturing.

Michael Lesslie has penned the latest draft of the screenplay, with preliminary inputs from creator Collins and Catching Fire author Michael Arndt.

Previously introduced forged members of the movie additionally embrace Josh Andres Rivera, Jerome Lance, Ashley Liao, Aamer Husain, Hiroki Berrecloth and Jason Schwartzman.

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes is scheduled for a November 17, 2023 launch.

The venture will likely be produced by Nina Jacobson and her producing companion Brad Simpson, together with Francis Lawrence. Suzanne Collins, Tim Palen, and Jim Miller will function govt producers.

Dinklage is greatest recognized for taking part in Tyrion Lannister within the hit HBO present Game of Thrones.

He has additionally featured in motion pictures reminiscent of The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, Death at a Funeral, X-Men: Days of Future Past, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri and I Care A Lot.