Confirming what’s been rumored, Kieran Culkin is now set to play Caesar Flickerman, host of the Hunger Games — the role inhabited in earlier films by Stanley Tucci — in Lionsgate ‘s The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping, based on the bestseller by Suzanne Collins.

Elle Fanning has snagged a key role in the next "Hunger Games" film, "Sunrise on the Reaping." See the full cast of the highly anticipated adaptation.

The Lionsgate film has landed the Oscar-winning actor to play the host of the Hunger Games who was previously portrayed by Stanley Tucci.