Peter Dinklage cast as Academy dean in The Hunger Games prequel The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

Peter Dinklage cast as Academy dean in The Hunger Games prequel The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

By Cassie Carpenter For Dailymail.Com

Published: 17:54 EDT, 18 July 2022 | Updated: 18:00 EDT, 18 July 2022

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Game of Thrones alum Peter Dinklage just joined the growing ensemble of Lionsgate’s prequel The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, and production is already underway.

The New Jersey-born 53-year-old will take on the role of Casca Highbottom, the dean of the Capitol’s most prestigious high school, Academy.

In Suzanne Collins’ 2020 novel, Highbottom develops the idea of the Hunger Games with Crassus Snow, the father of Coriolanus Snow (Donald Sutherland) who goes on to become the callous autocratic ruler of the Capitol and all of Panem.

Production is already underway! Game of Thrones alum Peter Dinklage just joined the growing ensemble of Lionsgate’s prequel The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (pictured February 23)

Hitting US/UK theaters November 17, 2023! The New Jersey-born 53-year-old will take on the role of Casca Highbottom, the dean of the Capitol’s most prestigious high school, Academy

Director Francis Lawrence – who helmed Catching Fire, Mockingjay Part One, and Mockingjay Part Two – said Highbottom was one of the most powerful people in 18-year-old Coriolanus life.

‘As the austere and vindictive face of the games, he sets the rules that will determine every aspect of Coriolanus’ fate,’ the 51-year-old Grammy-winning filmmaker told Deadline.

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‘I’m thrilled that Peter will be bringing him to life.’

And producer Nina Jacobson gushed: ‘Casca Highbottom is a character with secrets. Peter’s magnetism, intensity and dark humor will infuse him with the intelligence, depth and pathos that the role demands.’

Set 64 years prior: In Suzanne Collins’ 2020 novel, Highbottom develops the idea of the Hunger Games with Crassus Snow, the father of Coriolanus Snow (Donald Sutherland) who goes on to become the callous autocratic ruler of the Capitol and all of Panem

‘He sets the rules that will determine every aspect of Coriolanus’ fate’: Director Francis Lawrence – who helmed Catching Fire, Mockingjay Part One, and Mockingjay Part Two – said Highbottom was one of the most powerful people in 18-year-old Coriolanus life 

‘Some lessons shouldn’t be taught’: When The Hunger Games’ Instagram account made the casting announcement about Dinklage, Rachel Zegler commented with a heart

When The Hunger Games’ Instagram account made the casting announcement about Dinklage in The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes – hitting US/UK theaters November 17, 2023 – Rachel Zegler commented with a heart.

The 21-year-old West Side Story starlet portrays District 12 tribute Lucy Gray Baird competing in the 10th Hunger Games, while her real-life boyfriend Josh Andrés Rivera will play District 12 Peacekeeper Sejanus Plinth. 

Billy the Kid actor Tom Blyth will star as the young Coriolanus, Euphoria star Hunter Schafer will plays Coriolanus’ cousin Tigris Snow, and The French Dispatch actor Jason Schwartzman plays Lucky Flickerman.

‘Committing valen-crimes’: The 21-year-old West Side Story starlet (R, pictured February 14) portrays District 12 tribute Lucy Gray Baird competing in the 10th Hunger Games, while her real-life boyfriend Josh Andrés Rivera (L) will play District 12 Peacekeeper Sejanus Plinth

Already cast! Billy the Kid actor Tom Blyth will star as the young Coriolanus, Euphoria star Hunter Schafer will plays Coriolanus’ cousin Tigris Snow, and The French Dispatch actor Jason Schwartzman plays Lucky Flickerman

Franchise: The first four Hunger Games films, starring Jennifer Lawrence (L) and Liam Hemsworth (R), received mostly good reviews and amassed a total $2.9B at the global box office between 2012-2015 

The first four sci-fi dystopian films of the Hunger Games franchise, starring Jennifer Lawrence, received mostly good reviews and amassed a total $2.9B at the global box office between 2012-2015.

Audiences can next catch the four-time Emmy winner as Harvard professor Dr. Phil Loder opposite Shirley MacLaine’s lonely widow in black comedy American Dreamer, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival on June 11.

Paul Dektor’s feature directorial debut based on a This American Life segment also features Matt Dillon, Danny Glover, Kimberly Quinn, Danny Pudi, and Michelle Mylett.

Coming soon! Audiences can next catch the four-time Emmy winner as Harvard professor Dr. Phil Loder opposite Shirley MacLaine’s (L) lonely widow in black comedy American Dreamer, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival on June 11

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