Official: Bruno Gunn Cast as Brutus in ‘The Hunger Games: Catching Fire’
It’s raining District 2 Career Tributes this week! Lionsgate has just added to CatchingFireCasting.com the announcement that Bruno Gunn has been cast as Brutus in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire!
Santa Monica, CA, August 8, 2012- Lionsgate® and the filmmakers of THE HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE are pleased to announce that Bruno Gunn has been cast in the role of Brutus in the much anticipated film adaptation of Suzanne Collins’ worldwide smash hit novel Catching Fire. Brutus is a former Career victor from District 2.
Gunn has co-starred in a variety of films, most recently the comedy hit Bad Teacher, and is recognizable to TV audiences from frequent guest starring roles including on “The Office”, “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” “Sons Of Anarchy,” “Oz,” and “Prison Break.”
@Katie well remember, Cato vs. Thresh could have been an epic fight for added drama, but they didn’t show it
I can only hope that we get casting announcements every day now. That’s probably too much to hope for, but who knows lol.
@Carla: “the way he described it made me think that everything just happened really fast, so i always got the feeling that he literally just ran into brutus killing chaff, and then he was on brutus before the guy could even react.” I think the same, I think Peeta reacted by instinct, he probably didn´t realize he was killing Brutus until it was over. He just ran into them and within a blink of an eye, he was the last one standing. If I remember correctly, the cannon for Chaff was followed very closely by the Brutus´ one, it had to be quick.
It would be great to have it in the movie, but I think there won´t be time.
Satsuma- It could be an epic battle/David and Goliath moment. But that’s what I thought about Peeta vs. Cato, which they DID show, and that was a huge disappointment in the first film. That was my most anticipated part of the movie, and the true lack of epicness basically ruined it for me (can I say bunk were-tributes, not losing a leg, 12 hours turning into 30 seconds?!?). I’d personally love to see this fight so Josh can make up for the first miss and really show he’s a lover AND a fighter, but I don’t think that’s what they are trying to portray with MoviePeeta.
@Khnaster Your right about the Cato/Thresh fight. But Peeta is one of the major characters in the story.
So far audiences know Peeta as a lovestruck boy who got hurt for half of the movie. So showing the fight would be logical to show that Peeta is capable in defending himself.
AMN, I think the important thing to show isn’t that he can level up and fight, by shoehorning some unnecessary fight scene with a bigger guy (it wasn’t even revealed until the 3rd book if I recall rightly). In fact, I think that would be depressingly cliched. Instead, it’s way more important and interesting to emphasise his willingness to put himself in harm’s way and occasionally just use himself as a meat-shield for Katniss in spite of the fact that he is not a fighter.
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