Catching Fire, the follow-up to The Hunger Games, will likely be another box office success story, but it will have to do so without the backing of legions of Twi-hards, after Robert Pattinson quashed rumours that he was set to appear in the forthcoming sequel.
The Cosmopolis star was reportedly Lionsgate's first choice for the role of Finnick Odair, a former winning tribute who gets roped into a kind of super-Hunger Games, in which all the former winners return to compete against each other.
However, R-Pattz himself has come out and denied the potential casting, revealing that no such approach has been made by the studio.
"I was kind of curious for a second," says Pattinson, "so I called my agent. My agent was like, 'No, no one's going to offer you that part.' I was like, 'thanks for the reassurance!'"
Looks like Pattinson will have to make do with just the two mega-franchises on his CV then. Catching Fire will open on 22 November 2013.
However, another news came out that the role of Finnick Odair, a stunningly handsome chap from District 4 and one of the most skilled tributes, might go to either of the final three actors narrowed down to play the role - Armie Hammer (who played both Winklevoss brothers in "The Social Network"), Taylor Kitsch (former "Friday Night Lights" hunk and star of "Battleship") and Garrett Hedlund (from "TRON").
