2011
04.19

‘Grey’s Anatomy’ Star Leven Rambin Joins ‘Hunger Games’

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TV starlet Leven Rambin (“Grey’s Anatomy”) and Jack Quaid are the latest to sign up for Lionsgate’s big screen adaptation of author Suzanne Collins’ young-adult series “Hunger Games.” They join a cast that includes Jennifer Lawrence (X-Men: First Class), Josh Hutcherson (Journey 2: The Mysterious Island), Liam Hemsworth (Knowing), and Elizabeth Banks (The Uninvited).

Hunger Games finds child survivors of an economically and socially collapsed America competing in televised death games in a new country named Panem. Two kids from each of Panem’s 12 districts are chosen by lottery each year to participate. Rambin and Quaid will portray District One players Glimmer and Marvel, respectively.

Rambin, a 20-year-old Texas native, is best known to genre fans as Riley Dawson on the short-lived Fox series “Terminator: The Sarah Conner Chronicles.” Quaid’s claim-to-fame is that he fell out of Meg Ryan’s vagina around the time she was hitched to Dennis Quaid.

2011
04.19

Elizabeth Banks Is Ready to Play ‘Hunger Games’

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Elizabeth Banks is set to join Lionsgate’s big screen adaptation of author Suzanne Collins’ best-selling young-adult book series “Hunger Games.” The 37-year-old looker will star opposite Jennifer Lawrence (X-Men: First Class), Josh Hutcherson (Journey 2: The Mysterious Island), Liam Hemsworth (Knowing), Amandla Stenberg (Colombiana) and Dayo Okeniyi.

Hunger Games finds child survivors of an economically and socially collapsed America competing in televised death games in a new country named Panem. Two kids from each of Panem’s 12 districts are chosen to participate by lottery each year.

Banks will play Effie Trinket, the District 12 bureaucrat who chaperons 16-year-old Katniss (Lawrence) and her partner Peeta (Hutcherson) throughout the games. Gary Ross (Seabiscuit, Pleasantville) directs from a script by Billy Ray (Flightplan, Color of Night).

Banks creds include the Guard Brothers’ J-horror remake The Uninvited, James Gunn’s creature-feature comedy Slither, and Sam Raimi’s Spiderman trilogy.

Photo by Nick Koudis Photography.