The prequel to The Hunger Games franchise stars Rachel Zegler, Peter Dinklage, Tom Blythe, Jason Schwartzman, Viola Davis, and more.
The Big Picture Francis Lawrence is no stranger to adapting the brutality and bloodshed of Suzanne Collins’ young adult series The Hunger Games for the big screen. After all, the director has already backed three films surrounding the world of Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire and both parts one and two of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay.
Reflecting on the past, Lawrence said that he’s always strived to keep things “different” with every film. “One of the things that is always important to me is when you’ve done Games, so I knew that the beginning of my games in Catching Fire had to be different than they were in the first one, right? So just emotionally it has to feel different. Visually, of course, very different kind of arena,” he explains.
While the previous movies’ futuristic high-tech equipment used to get the tributes to their battle positions won’t be seen in The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes, the story will still parallel that of Katniss Everdeen and Peeta . As Lawrence explains, “This is actually sort of similar to Catching Fire — the draw of Rachel character trying to find her friend. If you remember from Catching Fire, it’s the same with Katniss, that Katniss is trying to find Peeta, and she doesn’t know where he is.
What is 'The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes' About? Close While audiences first met Donald Sutherland’s Coriolanus Snow as the tyrannical ruler of Panem in the original set of films, The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes will go into the past and tell his origin story. Played by Tom Blyth, viewers will meet an 18-year-old Coriolanus who is given the task of mentoring District 12’s Lucy Gray Baird for the 10th annual Hunger Games.
The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes arrives in theaters on November 17. Pre-order your tickets below. The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes 64 years before Katniss Everdeen volunteered as tribute, and decades before Coriolanus Snow became the tyrannical President of Panem.
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