Jason Schwartzman Joins the Flickerman Family as Lucky in 'The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes'

Jason Schwartzman has just been added to the growing cast of The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. Jason will play the role of Lucretius “Lucky” Flickerman, a weatherman with Capitol News Network, whom Dr. Gaul taps to host the 10th Annual Hunger Games. Lucky is a relative of the one and only Caesar Flickerman, originally played by Stanley Tucci in the Hunger Games films. I’m not sure there is a more perfect casting - Jason and Stanley Tucci definitely look like they’re related IRL. 

Schwartzman joins Tom Blyth, Rachel Zegler, Hunter Schafer, and Josh Andres Rivera, among others, in the prequel to the original Hunger Games films, set in the time around the 10th Hunger Games. The film hits theaters November 17, 2023.