Vanity Fair has dropped the official first look of the prequel film, The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. Taking place roughly 64 years before the events of the first Hunger Games film, the prequel features Tom Blyth as Coriolanus Snow. His character is a highly ambitious high school student who wants to find his way in the world. The movie may even show how he became the most powerful man in the history of Panem.
Viewers will also witness Snow facing the ultimate conflict as he chooses between Lucy Gray Baird (Rachel Zegler) and the dangerous Dr Volumnia Gaul (Viola Davis).
“He [Snow] is a young man finding his way in the world, but he also makes choices that presage the man he is becoming,” producer Nina Jacobson revealed. “He is a shapeshifter who craves control, but is drawn to a woman who threatens everything he thought he wanted.”
On the other hand, Lucy Gray tries to calm the chaos and brutality of The Hunger Games prequel world. Pretty much what Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) did to the original Hunger Games movies. And the best part is that Lucy can sing. That’s right! Plus, she knows how to cool Snow down and teaches him to see things more clear.
Helmer Francis Lawrence has hailed Zegler as the “anti-Katniss”. “She’s a musician, she’s a performer, she’s a charmer… Snow has never met a girl like this before.”
Directed by Francis Lawrence, The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes stars Tom Blyth, Rachel Zegler, Hunter Schafer, Jason Schwartzman, Peter Dinklage, and Viola Davis. The film is based on Suzanne Collins’ 2020 novel of the same name. Michael Arndt has penned down the movie’s screenplay. It will arrive in theatres worldwide on November 17, 2023. Stay tuned for more updates.