Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes director considered splitting the movie into two parts

'Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes' director Francis Lawrence says he considered splitting the upcoming 'Hunger Games' prequel starring Rachel Zegler and Tom Blyth into two parts: 'I decided, no, we're not going down that road again.'

Jessica is a staff writer at Entertainment Weekly, where she covers TV, movies, and pop culture. Her work has appeared in Bustle, NYLON, Cosmopolitan, InStyle, and more. She lives in California with her dog.' prequel of the same name, the dystopian romance drama traces the school days of a pre-tyrant Snow during the 10th Hunger Games, an annual televised event wherein children fight to the death as punishment for a past insurrection against the Capitol.

He continued, "In an episode of television, if you have a cliffhanger, you have to wait a week or you could just binge it and then you can see the next episode. But making people wait a year, I think, came across as disingenuous, even though it wasn't. Our intentions were not to be disingenuous." That's not to say he isn't happy with the fact that they got to dive into more of the source material.

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