The actress joins the Lionsgate movie adaptation as the Panem stylist who was first portrayed in the franchise by Elizabeth Banks.

Confirming what’s been rumored for weeks, Elle Fanning is now set for the role of Effie Trinket, stylist for Haymitch Abernathy in the lead-up to the 50th Hunger Games, in Lionsgate ‘s The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping, an adaptation of the bestseller by Suzanne Collins.

Elizabeth Banks has congratulated Elle Fanning on being cast as her character Effie Trinket in The Hunger Games prequel. Fanning joins Ralph Fiennes as President Snow, Joseph Zada as Haymitch, Jesse Plemons as Plutarch Heavensbee,