The Gamemaker

The Hunger Games adaptation is so happening it seems every new day beckons a new piece of casting intel.

The latest is the addition of Wes Bentley (you should remember him from American Beauty) as Seneca Crane, the head gamemaker of the 74th Hunger Games who oversees the games and makes a decision a the end of Suzanne Collins’ first book that sets the course for the remainder of her dystopian trilogy.

Bentley joins Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, and Elizabeth Banks in the hotly anticipated next big franchise, the first installment of which is due out next March.

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