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. “Years before he would become the tyrannical President of Panem, 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. Here’s the official synopsis for The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes: Joining Zegler, Blyth, and Davis are Peter Dinklage, playing Casca Highbottom Josh Andrés Rivera, playing Sejanus Plinth Hunter Schafer, playing Tigris Snow and Jason Schwartzman, playing Lucretius “Lucky” Flickerman. It’s this kind of love story set in a different kind of a world in a different time.” In an interview with Vanity Fair , director Francis Lawrence said, “This is very much a story about love.

Volumnia Gaul, played by Viola Davis, a woman so easily moved. They’ll both have their hands full, however, with Dr. This is when tragedy strikes Lucy becomes a tribute in the 10th Annual Hunger Games, and Snow wants to save her. The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes is set some 64 years before the events in the first Hunger Games film, with the young Snow very much in love with Zegler’s Lucy Gray Baird. The film captures these young would-be lovers long before Snow grew up to become the tyrannical president of Panem in the original films (played with such nimble menace by Donald Sutherland) when he was an orphan in the Capitol and enrolled at the Academy. Fans of The Hunger Games will now get a chance to see how the wicked world of Panem came to be.ĭirector Francis Lawrence returns to the franchise with a brand new cast, beginning with the film’s leads Rachel Zegler as Lucy Gray Baird and Tom Blyth as the young Coriolanus Snow. Lionsgate has revealed the first official trailer for The Hunger Games: Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, the newest installment in the franchise, this one based on Suzanne Collins’ prequel novel. and must weigh his need to follow the rules against his desire to survive no matter what it takes.Your return trip to Panem has officially been booked. Outside the arena, Coriolanus starts to feel for his doomed tribute. Inside the arena, it will be a fight to the death. Their fates are now completely intertwined - every choice Coriolanus makes could lead to favor or failure, triumph or ruin. He’s been given the humiliating assignment of mentoring the female tribute from District 12, the lowest of the low. The once-mighty house of Snow has fallen on hard times, its fate hanging on the slender chance that Coriolanus will be able to outcharm, outwit, and outmaneuver his fellow students to mentor the winning tribute.

In the Capitol, eighteen-year-old Coriolanus Snow is preparing for his one shot at glory as a mentor in the Games. It is the morning of the reaping that will kick off the tenth annual Hunger Games.

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