Lionsgate announced on Wednesday that actor Sam Claflin has been cast as Finnick in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, the sequel to the highly popular Hunger Games.
So, who is Finnick, you may be asking? According to the Lionsgate press release surrounding the casting of Sam Claflin, Finnick, a District 4 tribute, is a charismatic and clever former winner of The Hunger Games when he was fourteen. On the flip side in real life, Sam Claflin was recently seen in Pirates of the Caribbean on Stranger Tides and Snow White and the Huntsman.
Like Pavlovian predictability, though, the casting of Sam Claflin in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire has prompted a number of online features related to Wednesday’s breaking news from Lionsgate. From “Top 5″ lists about Sam Claflin to “5 Things You Need to Know” about the actor, the web is awash with the number five.
As a result, we thought we’d throw out the one thing we know about Sam Claflin in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire.
And to those who get the state of current online madness, I couldn’t resist.
1 Thing to Know About the Catching Fire Actor
Sam Claflin is in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire.
There you have it! Do you really need to know four more things?