Confirming what’s been rumored for weeks, Elle Fanning is now set for the role of Effie Trinket, stylist for Haymitch Abernathy in the lead-up to the 50th Hunger Games, in Lionsgate ’s The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping, an adaptation of the bestseller by Suzanne Collins.

The actress joins the Lionsgate movie adaptation as the Panem stylist who was first portrayed in the franchise by Elizabeth Banks.

Kieran Culkin and Elle Fanning Board New Hunger Games Film. Kieran Culkin and Elle Fanning have joined the cast of the eagerly-awaited 2026 release, The Hunger