With casting announcements coming pretty thick and fast for the upcoming sequel to The Hunger Games, it should come as no surprise to learn that the Francis Lawrence (I Am Legend) directed movie has just added another name too the Catching Fire cast-list; Stephanie Leigh Schlund.
Stephanie Leigh Schlund (The Last Song) will star as Cashmere, a former victor of the annual Hunger Games (which sees a bunch of children fighting to the death in a futuristic, televised, bloodsport); in the second Hunger Games movie, which has been adapted from the second Suzanne Collins novel in the series, will find Jennifer Lawrence and Josh Hutcherson returning to play Katniss Everdeen and Peeta respectively, and returning from their victory at the 74th Hunger Games only to be whisked off to the Victor’s Tour of each district.
Donald Sutherland will be returning as the President who decides this time out (in order to stomp out the possibility of rebellion) the next games will see Katniss and Peeta forced back into the arena, alongside previous victors, for a revved up version of the games which only happens once every quarter of a century.
Liam Hemsworth, Elizabeth Banks, Woody Harrelson, Stanley Tucci, and Lenny Kravitz are all expected to reprise their roles from the first movie, and star alongside Philip Seymour Hoffman (The Big Lebowski), Tony Shalhoub (Monk), and Lynn Cohen (Eagle Eye) when The Hunger Games: Catching Fire is released on November 22nd 2013 in both the US and UK.
