Rachel Zegler as Lucy Gray Baird and Tom Blyth as Coriolanus Snow in 'The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes.' Who stars in 'The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes'? This follows a young Snow and a different District 12 tribute. The original series centered on Katniss, a girl from the impoverished District 12 who volunteers to fight to the death. When audiences met Coriolanus Snow in The Hunger Games, he was President of Panem, the dystopian nation in which two children - one boy and one girl - are drafted from each District to compete in the annual Hunger Games.

What is 'The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes' about? (Think of it as The Phantom Menace of the franchise.) Here is everything to know about The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes. The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes will tell the story of the 10th annual Hunger Games.īased on Collins' 2020 prequel novel of the same name, the story takes place 64 years before the events of The Hunger Games series and serves as an origin story for Snow as a villain. The original Hunger Games book and movie took place during the 74th year of the Games, as Jennifer Lawrence's Katniss Everdeen began her battle against the Capitol and its tyrannical president, Coriolanus Snow (played by Donald Sutherland). The cast for this one also includes Viola Davis, Peter Dinklage and Jason Schwartzman, and The Ballad Of Songbirds And Snakes will be in cinemas on 17 November.It's been 15 years since The Hunger Games first hit bookshelves and eight years since The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 concluded the big screen adaptation of Suzanne Collins' YA series about a society in which kids are forced to kill each other for sport on live TV. Uniting their instincts for showmanship and newfound political savvy, Snow and Lucy Gray’s race against time to survive will ultimately reveal who is a songbird, and who is a snake. But, after Lucy Gray commands all of Panem’s attention by defiantly singing during the reaping ceremony, Snow thinks he might be able to turn the odds in their favor.

With the 10th annual Hunger Games fast approaching, the young Snow is alarmed when he is assigned to mentor Lucy Gray Baird (Zegler), the girl tribute from impoverished District 12. Long before he would become the tyrannical President of Panem (and be played by Donald Sutherland, who voice cameos here in what makes us think will turn out to be book end scenes set in the 'present' of the movies), 18-year-old Coriolanus Snow (Blyth) is the last hope for his fading lineage, a once-proud family that has fallen from grace in a post-war Capitol. With franchise veteran Francis Lawrence once again directing, the new movie takes place roughly 64 years before the events of the main book trilogy, which of course became four movies.

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