The Dune: Half Two star reveals he misplaced the position of Peeta Mellark.
Our in style tradition retains circling again to The Starvation Video games, as Suzanne Collins’ young-adult franchise spawns extra books, motion pictures, and dialog from followers. With a brand new title within the franchise, the upcoming prequel e book and film Dawn on the Reaping, introduced earlier this month, the present installments have continued to be spoken about — even from Oscar-nominated Elvis and The Bikeriders star Austin Butler. in a latest interview with BuzzFeed Celeb, Butler revealed that he misplaced out on the position of Peeta Mellark in The Starvation Video games, who was in the end portrayed by Josh Hutcherson within the movie sequence.
“I auditioned for The Starvation Video games and I did not get it in any respect,” Butler defined. “I do not even assume I acquired a name again; what is the character, Peeta? Josh Hutcherson acquired that; he is nice.”
What Is the New Starvation Video games Film About?
Dawn on the Reaping revisits the world of Panem twenty-four years earlier than the occasions of The Starvation Video games, beginning on the morning of the reaping of the Fiftieth Starvation Video games, often known as the Second Quarter Quell.
“With Dawn on the Reaping, I used to be impressed by David Hume’s thought of implicit submission and, in his phrases, ‘the easiness with which the numerous are ruled by the few,'” Collins mentioned in an announcement asserting the e book. “The story additionally lent itself to a deeper dive into the usage of propaganda and the facility of those that management the narrative. The query ‘Actual or not actual?’ appears extra urgent to me day by day.”
Will There Be Extra Starvation Video games Films?
Along with the story of Haymitch’s Starvation Video games, followers have additionally hoped to someday get a prequel surrounding Finnick Odair, who gained the sixty fifth Starvation Video games and have become a pivotal and tragic a part of the following Quarter Quell. Collins has repeatedly said that her Starvation Video games entries are a method for her to “look at” a real-world matter, with franchise director Francis Lawrence indicating that one other movie installment would not occur with out Collins having a particular narrative in thoughts.
“If Suzanne has one other thematic concept that she feels suits into the world of Panem — whether or not that is with new individuals [or] acquainted characters [like] Finnick, Haymitch, whoever — I would be actually occupied with taking a look at it and being part of it,” Lawrence instructed Leisure Weekly in an interview final yr. “However I haven’t got any pull of simply going, ‘I’d like to do Finnick’s video games.’ He is a fantastic character, however what is the thematic underpinnings that make it price telling and related?”
Dawn on the Reaping might be launched wherever books are offered on March 18, 2025, adopted by the film adaptation on November 20, 2026.
