15 Actors Almost Cast In The Hunger Games

11. Chloë Grace Moretz - Katniss Everdeen

When a massively popular young adult property starts casting young adults, you're naturally going to get fans of the material eager to get involved. It happened on a mass scale with Harry Potter and you can bet it happened with the wizarding adventure's successor to the teenage box office throne. Chloë Moretz, who rose to fame playing the foul-mouthed, pre-teen assassin Hit-Girl, was linked with Katniss from the off. She was clear fan favourite and, as a lover of the books herself, incredibly eager to be involved. Even younger than Breslin, it's unlikely she was as seriously considered as other candidates, but there was always the potential. Moretz accidentally fuelled rumours of her involvement - in an interview with MTV she said she'd "just booked a huge project€ You€™re gonna die when you find out, it€™s huge!" That project ended up being Dark Shadows. She needs to learn the definition of huge (and read scripts before signing on).
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Film Editor (2014-2016). Loves The Usual Suspects. Hates Transformers 2. Everything else lies somewhere in the middle. Once met the Chuckle Brothers.