Lifetime has announced the cast for its much-anticipated “Hunger Games”-type drama pilot, “The Lottery.”
Michael Graziadei (“American Horror Story”), Lesley-Ann Brandt (“Spartacus”) and Louise Lombard (“CSI”) will star in the pilot, which takes place in a world where women no longer have children and the human race on the verge of extinction.
When 100 embryos are successfully fertilized, a national lottery is held to determine the surrogates.
Graziadei will play Kyle, a recovering alcoholic and father of one of the last children born before the lottery.
Brandt will play a US soldier who vies to be one of the surrogates — while Lombard will play an artist, now a member of the government, who’s close to the president.
The plot is similar in tone to last year’s big-screen blockbuster “The Hunger Games,” starring Jennifer Lawrence, in which a young woman (Lawrence) competes for her life in a national lottery.
Its sequel, “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire,” opens in theaters Nov. 22 with Lawrence starring opposite Liam Hemsworth, Josh Hutcherson, Woody Harrelson, Elizabeth Banks, Phillips Seymour-Hoffman and Stanley Tucci