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.

Elle Fanning will be playing a young Effie Trinket in "Sunrise on the Reaping," a prequel film in "The Hunger Games" franchise.

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