Update 10/07/2012: Entertainment Weekly has now been able to officially say now that Philip Seymore Hoffman has signed on to play Plutarch Heavensbee in 'The Hunger Games:Catching Fire'
The Hollywood Reporter Heat Vision has now been able to confirm that Philip Seymour Hoffman who you may or may not recognise from 'The Talented Mr.Ripley' as Freddie who is friends with Dave (to give him his proper name) Jude Law who organises the skiing trip has had an official offer made from Lionsgate to play 'Plutarch Heavensbee' in the Hunger Gasmes sequel 'Catching Fire'.
If you have read the books like me then you'll already know that Plutarch Heavensbee is the new Gamemaker after the last one was murdered for letting both Katniss and Peta win the games...if you haven't gotten around to reading these books yet and are waiting to watch the films then I'm sorry for the spoiler but I promise that there is no more after this one.
Also the new director that has come into the fold to replace Gary Ross who directed 'The Hunger Games' is Francis Lawrence.
Also to open this franchise up to the European market Lionsgate has signed a deal with Universal Studios to give them the distribution right to 'Catching Fire' in Italy.
Although the director for 'Catching Fire' has been finally decided as well as Simon Beaufoy who has written the first drafts for this script Lionsgate are in talks with Michael Arndt who wrote the screenpay to the hilarious 'Little Miss Sunshine' and also wrote 'Toy Story 3' to work on a script based on these Simon Beaufoy drafts but if this deal becomes final then the rewritten script has to be done quick stitch as Jennifer Lawrence has already committed to pick up where she left off in Fox's 'X:Men: First Class' sequel which I'm so excited to see when it comes out, as well as how Lionsgate want to have an international release date for 'Catching Fire' on November 22nd 2013.
This rushed time scale is said to be one of the reasons why Gary Ross didn't want to go ahead and direct 'Catching Fire'.
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