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Tributes Cast Grows for ‘Hunger Games’
Chris Mark and Jacqueline Emerson have landed roles as the District 5 tributes in Lionsgate’s upcoming film adaptation of Suzanne Collins’ Hunger Games trilogy, writes THR. Mark will portray the unnamed tribute boy, while Emerson is set as Foxface, described as a girl with red hair and a slim face.
Hunger Games is led by Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss, Josh Hutcherson as Peeta and Liam Hemsworth as Gale. Elizabeth Banks will play Katniss’ handler Effie, Paula Malcolmson has signed on as Katniss’ mother and Willow Shields as younger sister Prim.
Rounding out the cast so far is Amandla Stenberg, Dayo Okeniyi, Leven Rambin, Jack Quaid, Ian Nelson, Kalia Prescott, Ethan Jamieson and Tara Macken.
Still left to be cast are the tributes from District 2, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10, along with pivotal characters including Haymitch and Cinna.
The film, to be directed by Gary Ross, will be in theaters March 23, 2012.
The filmmakers behind Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey are expanding their public domain horror universe with a handful of upcoming “Poohniverse” movies, including Bambi: The Reckoning, Pinocchio: Unstrung, and Peter Pan’s Neverland Nightmare.
Variety has scored the first image from Neverland Nightmare, seen above.
The website details, “Peter Pan’s Neverland Nightmare follows Wendy Darling as she strikes out in an attempt to rescue her brother Michael from ‘the clutches of the evil Peter Pan.’ Along the way she meets Tinkerbell, who in this twisted version of the story will be seen taking heroine, convinced that it’s pixie dust.”
Scott Jeffrey will direct Peter Pan’s Neverland Nightmare, expected Halloween 2024.
Jeffrey tells us, “I am taking inspiration from French cinema while in prep for this movie. The film will be incredibly tense. I would say it’s a mesh between Switchblade Romance and The Black Phone with our own spin on it. It is a nasty, violent and incredibly dark movie.”
Megan Placito has joined the cast as Wendy Darling, Kit Green is Tinkerbell, Peter DeSouza-Feighoney (The Pope’s Exorcist) is Michael Darling and Charity Kase (RuPaul Drag Race) is James. Martin Portlock will be playing the twisted version of Peter Pan.
Created by J.M. Barrie way back in 1902, the character of Peter Pan – like Winnie the Pooh – is in the public domain, even if the iconic Disney iteration of the character is very much not.
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