The sci-fi thriller The Hunger Games has one more big name attached. Elizabeth Banks (The Next Three Days) is in negotiations for the part of Effie Trinket, “a flake bureaucrat who escorts her district’s young death-match contestants to their fate,” according to Variety.
IMDB reveals that the movie is about “a young girl [who] joins a survival contest in order to save her community in a dystopian future.” The movie stars this year’s Academy Award nominee Jennifer Lawrence (Winter’s Bone) as Katniss Everdeen, Josh Hutcherson (The Kids Are All Right) as Peeta Mellark, and Liam Hemsworth (The Last Song) as Gale Hawthorne. The website also reports that young newcomer Amandla Stenberg will play Rue, and Dayo Okeniyi (Slew Hampshire) will play Thresh.
Next Movie adds this about Banks’ character: “As the District 12 escort, Effie is in charge of drawing the tributes at the reaping and escorting them to the Capitol, amongst many other duties. She is a prim, proper and often airheaded perfectionist who longs for a promotion to a better, richer district, though she eventually becomes attached to Katniss and Peeta.” Also, they say Banks will “nail Effie’s obsession with impeccable manners and frequent freakouts when her airtight schedule doesn’t go exactly as planned.”
Banks has previously worked with the film’s director, Gary Ross, in the 2003 horse racing drama, Seabiscuit. The Hunger Games, based on the novel by Suzanne Collins and screenplay by Billy Ray (State of Play), is set for a March 23, 2013 release, and surely will be “an emotional roller coaster ride.”
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