Fanning will play Effie Trinket, the character that Elizabeth Banks originated, in "The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping.

Elle Fanning said Hunger Games fans are the reason she was cast as Effie Trinket in the upcoming prequel film. During a ...

Elle Fanning shares how fan enthusiasm helped land her the role of Effie Trinket in The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping.

As it turns out, their ideas lined up quite well with what Lionsgate wanted. “It was funny because I think fans kind of made this happen in a way,” Elle Fanning recently told MTV about getting ...

Elle Fanning received flowers from Elizabeth Banks after being cast as her character in the upcoming prequel The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping. "Effie has always been my favourite character," ...

Elle Fanning to Play Effie in ‘Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping’ (Exclusive) The actress joins the Lionsgate movie adaptation as the Panem stylist who was first portrayed in the franchise ...

The odds are ever in Elle Fanning's favor. She has been cast as Effie Trinket in the upcoming film "The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping." Lionsgate made the announcement in a post shared to ...

Sunrise on the Reaping was announced, it’s become one of our most-anticipated upcoming book adaptations, and getting all the ...

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 ...

(Photo by Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images for Disney) Elle Fanning said she was a fan of the character Effie Trinket before she cast to take on the role in the next “ Hunger Games ” film.

The book Sunrise on the Reaping takes place in Panem on the morning of the reaping for the 50th Hunger Games, 24 years before the events in The Hunger Games, the first novel that published in 2008.

Fanning will play the younger version of the character that was originated by Elizabeth Banks in the 2012 film The Hunger Games. Banks went on to reprise the role in its following three sequels.