Casting around the 50th Hunger Games continues to fill up thick and fast with the prequel movie Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping. Days after Maya Hawke was cast as Wiress, it's now been revealed that the legendary actor formerly known as He Who Must Not Be Named has been appointed as the new president of Panem. The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed that Ralph Fiennes will be taking on the role of President Coriolanus Snow in the upcoming film that will follow the games that turned tribute, Haymitch Abernathy (Joseph Zada), into a legend as one of the only two District 12 victors in the games' history. Whitney Peak, Mckenna Grace, Jesse Plemons, Kelvin Harrison Jr., Lili Taylor and Ben Wang are also set to star.
Snow marks another iconic literary villain for Fiennes to check off his list after spending over a decade as Lord Voldemort in the Harry Potter films. While it's hard to determine just which one is worse (both are heartless kid killers in their own right), one star of the last Hunger Games movie was quick to chime in on the casting announcement. Taking to Instagram following the announcement of Fiennes in the role, Rachel Zegler, who played Snow's former love interest, Lucy Gray Baird in The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes, wrote, "Not my movie ex being Voldemort," which naturally got a lot of laughs from fans of the franchise.
