Elizabeth Banks on Hunger Games: The Musical and Pitch Perfect 2

Elizabeth Banks thinks The Hunger Games would make a fun musical – and believes a singing version is probably already in the works.

The actress, 39, is one of the stars and producers of the 2012 hit musical comedy Pitch Perfect and thinks an all-singing, all-dancing version of The Hunger Games should be given the go-ahead.

‘I’m sure someone is thinking about it somewhere. But sure! Anything can work,’ the actress told Guilty Pleasures when she was in London to promote the current Hunger Games sequel – Catching Fire.

Banks does, however, feel she would only want to limit her own Hunger Games role as Effie Trinket to the current film version.

‘I think Effie is going to live in these movies and then that will be it for me,’ she said.

Following the success of Pitch Perfect – which also starred Rebel Wilson, Skylar Astin and Anna Kendrick – the actress is looking forward to reuniting with the cast for a sequel.

‘We are hard at work on the script but it won’t be out until 2015,’ she told us.

[Originally published Metro, Guilty Pleasures, Wednesday 20 November 2013]