Four-time Emmy Award winner Peter Dinklage of Game of Thrones fame has been officially cast in The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes as Casca Highbottom, the dean of the Academy.
The casting was announced by Nathan Kahane, president of Lionsgate's Motion Picture Group, confirming that Dinklage would be joining Tom Blyth's young Coriolanus Snow and Rachel Zegler's tribute Lucy Gray Baird.
"Dean Highbottom is one of the most powerful people in Snow’s life," director Francis Lawrence said. "As the austere and vindictive face of the games, he sets the rules that will determine every aspect of Coriolanus’s fate. I’m thrilled that Peter will be bringing him to life.”
Casca was first seen in Suzanne Collins' The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, which serves as a prequel to The Hunger Games trilogy, and he helped start the Hunger Games and would become the public face of the event.
Dinklage won four Emmy Awards for his portrayal as Tyrion Lannister on Game of Thrones and was nominated for another four. He was most recently seen in Paul Dektor's American Dreamer and Joe Wright's Cyrano.
He is set to appear in The Toxic Avenger with Kevin Bacon and Jacob Tremblay, Brothers with Josh Brolin and Brendan Fraser, and She Came to Me with Anne Hathaway and Marisa Tomei.
Dinklage also recently explained why he thinks the upcoming remake of Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is such a bad idea. The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes will be released in theaters on November 17, 2023. For more, check out how the Hunger Games prequel will differ from the original movies.
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