I’m not sure whether we are over-doing our casting news updates, or whether The Hunger Games is trying to break The Longest Day’s record for most major stars cast in one film, but here comes some more cracking news. Donald Sutherland is said to have been cast as President Snow, the ruler of Panem, who uses the eponymous games as a means of controlling the state.
It feels like Sutherland hasn’t had a meaty film role to get his teeth into since forever, though maybe he has been deliberately targeting more peripheral fare. No doubt he’s lost none of his mojo.
That now gives us Toby Jones, Wes Bentley, Jennifer Lawrence, Lenny Kravitz, Stanley Tucci, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Elizabeth Banks, Woody Harrelson and Donald Sutherland. Quite a haul in anyone’s estimation. Gary Ross (Seabiscuit, Peasantville) will direct this esteemed ensemble.
