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<\/p>\nPhilip Seymour Hoffman was still shooting The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 when he tragically passed away back in 2014. The beloved actor played Head Gamemaker Plutarch Heavensbee in three out of four movies in the franchise. <\/p>\n
Mockingjay – Part 1 was released after his death and was dedicated to his memory, while Part 2 became Hoffman’s final on-screen role, with the movie being slightly rewritten to compensate for his absence. <\/p>\n
Since then, there have been two prequel movies, The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes and the upcoming Sunrise on the Reaping. The latter features a young Plutarch as a cameraman for the Games, played by Black Mirror’s Jesse Plemons. <\/p>\n
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Related: UK film release dates<\/a><\/p>\n Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter<\/a>, director Francis Lawrence shared why the late star’s son Cooper Hoffman wasn’t cast to play the younger version of his dad, despite their “similarities”.<\/p>\n “I will say that meeting Cooper the first time [for my film] was very powerful,” Lawrence said. “To see, and feel, the similarities they both have, it made me emotional.<\/p>\n “I love to work with people over and over, and Cooper is high on that list, but we needed someone who felt considerably older than Cooper is,” he explained. <\/p>\n Though Hoffman didn’t land a role in the hugely anticipated prequel, which will be released this November, he and Lawrence did get to work together on another dystopian survival thriller, The Long Walk. <\/p>\n Lionsgate<\/p>\n Related: Every Hunger Games character who has been recast in Sunrise on the Reaping<\/a><\/p>\n Based on Stephen King’s novel, the 2025 movie stars Hoffman as a contestant in a brutal televised walking competition. Set in the ’70s, 50 boys are forced to walk nonstop for days, maintaining a pace of three miles per hour. <\/p>\n The contestant who lasts the longest wins a large cash prize – but for the rest, the competition is a guaranteed death sentence. Hoffman leads the cast as Raymond ‘Ray’ Garraty, while David Jonsson, Garrett Wareing, Tut Nyuot, Mark Hamill, Judy Greer and Ben Wang also star. <\/p>\n The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping is released in cinemas on 20 November.<\/p>\n Visit our Streaming Guide<\/a> now to see at a glance where you can view ALL your favourite shows and movies.<\/p>\n The new edition of Legends, a 100-page all-colour celebration of Ariana Grande, is here! Buy Ariana Grande in newsagents or online<\/a>.<\/p>\n Divya is a freelance writer with experience in entertainment and lifestyle news. Described as a “telly addict” since childhood, Divya was able to translate her interests into a BJTC-accredited, Honours degree in Journalism and Media. After working in communications and marketing, Divya joined Digital Spy<\/a>\u00a0as a Freelance News Reporter. She has also written for various publications including\u00a0Metro<\/a>,\u00a0Asian World News\u00a0and\u00a0TwitCelebGossip;\u00a0as well as interviews, features and reviews on her own blog. Divya prides herself on her TV,\u00a0film<\/a>\u00a0and showbiz knowledge, always offering (not so) fun facts to her long-suffering friends and family. From\u00a0soaps<\/a>\u00a0to\u00a0superheroes<\/a>, Divya is the go-to person for tailored recommendations\u00a0and up to date information.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Philip Seymour Hoffman was still shooting The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 when he tragically passed away…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":588346,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[131124,248431,1105,248430,1107,93,61,60,184510,1135,270,248429,223989],"class_list":["post-588345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-collection-latest-news","tag-collection-the-hunger-games","tag-content-type-news","tag-contentid-bf1c4401-b102-44ed-b6c8-1a7bdae4836b","tag-displaytype-standard-article","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-issyndicated-false","tag-locale-gb","tag-movies","tag-shorttitle-philip-seymour-hoffmans-son-isnt-in-hunger-games","tag-sponsored-false"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=588345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/588346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=588345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=588345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"the](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/d4b01fbc-399a-4af5-9d09-d3eb822aa892.jpg\" "\\"The")
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