Kieran Culkin joins The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping

The latest addition to The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping, whose cast has been announced since April, is actor Kieran Culkin, of Home Alone fame.

Culkin joins Joseph Zada (as Haymitch Abernathy), Whitney Peak (as Lenore Dove Baird), Ralph Fiennes (as President Snow), Molly McCann (as Louella), Iona Bell (as Lou Lou), Maya Hawke (as Wiress), Lili Taylor (as Mags), Jesse Plemons (as Plutarch Heavensbee) and Elle Fanning (as Effie Trinket).

Culkin will play Caesar Flickerman, replacing Stanley Tucci, who played the part in the previous four films.

Set 24 years before the events of The Hunger Games during the Second Quarter Quell (50th Hunger Games), it will centre on a 12-year-old Haymitch Abernathy, portrayed by Woody Harrelson in the original Hunger Games movies and how he competes in the games with 48 children as tributes.

Francis Lawrence, who has helmed every Hunger Games instalment since 2012’s Catching Fire, will direct this film as well. Billy Ray, who has co-written the original trilogy, is writing the screenplay for the film.

The upcoming film is being bankrolled by Color Force’s Nina Jacobson and Brad Simpson. Cameron MacConomy is the executive producer.