The film adaptations of the trilogy were worldwide box office hits. Now the prequel comes to the screen – and with it Peter Dinklage, known as Tyrion Lannister in “Game of Thrones”.
Los Angeles – From “Game of Thrones” to the gloomy “Hunger Games” world: US actor Peter Dinklage (53, “Cyrano”) will play in the planned fantasy saga “The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes”. the studio announced Lionsgate on Twitter. The film adaptation of the Hunger Games novel by Suzanne Collins is scheduled to hit theaters in November 2023.
The actor, best known for his role as Tyrion Lannister in the fantasy epic Game of Thrones, will play Dean Casca Highbottom, inventor of the Hunger Games. Francis Lawrence is directing.
So far, four films have been made from the original book trilogy, which grossed around three billion dollars worldwide between 2012 and 2015. The girl Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence), who lives in the fictional world called Panem, is forced by a totalitarian regime under the power-hungry leader Coriolanus Snow (Donald Sutherland) to fight to the death against youths from other districts.
Set 64 years before these events, the new dystopian sci-fi novel revolves around young Snow (Tom Blyth) who mentores young District 12 fighter Lucy (Rachel Zegler) in the 10th Hunger Games should stand. dpa
