'Hunger Games' franchise director Francis Lawrence and producer Nina Jacobson preview 'Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes,' the ambitious prequel about a young Coriolanus Snow.
Lawrence admits he and Jacobson were "concerned" about centering a story around a reviled character, but the team continued to circle back to the singular and paramount truth that lives in the undercurrent of many villain origin stories: Bad guys don't start out as bad guys. It's that switch, that, that they knew makes for rich and complex storytelling.
follows the 18-year-old future tyrant during his final year at the Academy, the elite secondary school in Panem's Capitol. Unbeknownst to his peers, the Snows — also comprised of cousin Tigris and their grandma'am — have fallen on hard financial times following the first civil war the districts waged against the Capitol.
But Lucy Gray is a member of the Covey, a group of musical nomads, and when she captures Panem's attention with a song at the Reaping, Coriolanus realizes he's got a wildcard on his hands — and that they just might have a shot at winning. It's the mentors' job to turn their tributes into spectacles amidst declining viewership of the games, after all.
It was around the time that Zegler signed on that Blyth's audition tape rolled in and, as Lawrence puts it, "blew everybody out of the water." It certainly helped, too, that the Juilliard alum bears some resemblance to a young Sutherland. And his chemistry with Zegler sealed the deal.
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