The colossal hit comes to the stage – and the tyrannical President has been revealedMeet who’ll be taking on the role of President Snow in the eagerly anticipated stage adaptation of The Hunger Games. It’s now been revealed that John Malkovich will take on the role of President Coriolanus Snow, appearing via screen during the production rather than performing in the flesh. Tristan Waterson plays Gale Hawthorne, Sophia Ally plays Primrose Everdeen and Ruth Everett plays Mrs Everdeen. Tamsin Carroll plays Effie Trinket, while Stavros Demetraki plays Caesar Flickerman and Nathan Ives-Moiba plays Cinna. The Hunger Games series has sold over 100 million copies worldwide and has been translated into 52 languages.