Elizabeth Banks is Effie in The Hunger Games

The casting slots have been getting filled all over the place in Gary Ross’ The Hunger Games, with new faces for the tributes in District 1 and District 11, as well as a big screen newbie for the role of Prim, but the role of Effie Trinket has been in limbo while Elizabeth Banks has been in negotiations for the role.

Effie’s purgatory is now over as Collider brings word that Banks has officially signed on for the part of the “flaky bureaucrat who escorts her district’s young death-match contestants to their fate,” which means we’ll soon get to see what Banks looks like with some really wild wigs on her head.

Banks’ film schedule is getting pretty bulky. In addition to The Hunger Games, she’ll also be appearing in Movie 43, Man on a Ledge, and Welcome to People.

The Hunger Games, based on the first book in Suzanne Collins’ best-selling series, is expected to arrive in theaters on March 23, 2012.