{"id":10309,"date":"2025-04-11T08:31:14","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T08:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/10309\/"},"modified":"2025-04-11T08:31:14","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T08:31:14","slug":"elle-fanning-eyed-to-play-effie-trinket-in-hunger-games-sunrise-on-the-reaping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/10309\/","title":{"rendered":"Elle Fanning Eyed to Play Effie Trinket in Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elle Fanning is being eyed to play the younger Effie Trinket in \u201cThe Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping,\u201d as the actress currently has the offer to play the role, TheWrap has learned.<\/p>\n<p>The role was previously portrayed by Elizabeth Banks in the first four films in the series.<\/p>\n<p>According to Nexus Point News, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nexuspointnews.com\/post\/exclusive-elle-fanning-effie-sunrise-on-the-reaping\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">which first reported the news<\/a>, \u201cFanning would portray Effie before her time as the escort for District 12, 24 years before the events of the first film.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thewrap.com\/tag\/the-hunger-games-sunrise-on-the-reaping\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cThe Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping\u201d<\/a>\u00a0will be directed by Francis Lawrence, who has directed every \u201cHunger Games\u201d movie since \u201cCatching Fire,\u201d including 2024\u2019s prequel adaptation \u201cThe Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a class=\"the-wrap-read-more__image\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/hunger-games-sunrise-on-the-reaping-movie-writer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/the-hunger-games-sunrise-on-the-reaping.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"the-hunger-games-sunrise-on-the-reaping\"   data-portal-copyright=\"TheWrap\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\"\/>\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSunrise on the Reaping\u201d revisits the world of Panem 24 years before the events of \u201cThe Hunger Games,\u201d starting on the morning of the reaping of the 50th Hunger Games, also known as the Second Quarter Quell. A young Haymitch Abernathy (played by Woody Harrelson in the previous films) is the protagonist.<\/p>\n<p>The film will be produced by Color Force\u2019s Nina Jacobson and Brad Simpson. Cameron MacConomy will executive produce. Meredith Wieck and Scott O\u2019Brien are overseeing the project for Lionsgate.<\/p>\n<p>Fanning, who most recently starred in \u201cA Complete Unknown\u201d opposite Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet, will next be seen fighting alongside the Predator in \u201cPredator: Badlands\u201d\u00a0from director Dan Trachtenberg and 20th Century Studios. The film will hit theaters on Nov. 7.<\/p>\n<p>Elle Fanning is repped by UTA and TFC Management.<\/p>\n<p>Reps for Lionsgate did not respond to request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping\u201d hits theaters Nov. 20, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a class=\"the-wrap-read-more__image\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/hunger-games-sunrise-on-the-reaping-movie-writer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/the-hunger-games-sunrise-on-the-reaping.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"the-hunger-games-sunrise-on-the-reaping\"   data-portal-copyright=\"TheWrap\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\"\/>\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Elle Fanning is being eyed to play the younger Effie Trinket in \u201cThe Hunger Games: Sunrise on the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10310,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3940],"tags":[4080,7082,77,7083,7084,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-10309","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-elle-fanning","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-hunger-games","12":"tag-sunrise-on-the-reaping","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114318402154945806","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}