Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping has cast Elle Fanning as Effie Trinket, as announced by The Hollywood Reporter. The movie later confirmed the news on Twitter with an excerpt from the book, reading: “You are brilliant Effie Trinket!” Check out the post below.

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.

Apparently, fans are not the only ones praising the "perfect" casting of Elle Fanning as a younger Effie Trinket in the upcoming adaptation of The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping.