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.

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