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Summary
- The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes is a prequel to the original Hunger Games series, featuring a young Coriolanus Snow and Lucy Gray Baird.
- The official synopsis reveals that Snow, in a post-war Capitol, mentors Baird in District 12 and sees an opportunity to change their fates.
- Director Francis Lawrence explains that Lucy Gray Baird differs greatly from Katniss Everdeen, being more extroverted, sexual, and skilled at manipulating crowds.
Experience the story of The Hunger Games decades before Katniss Everdeen volunteered as tribute, and decades before Coriolanus Snow became the tyrannical President of Panem, in the latest trailer for the upcoming prequel, The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes. Coming courtesy of Lionsgate, The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes is led by Benediction actor Tom Blyth as a young Coriolanus Snow alongside West Side Story star Rachel Zegler as Lucy Gray Baird, the tribute from District 12. Check out the new trailer below:
Alongside the trailer, you can check out the official synopsis for The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes below:
“The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes follows a young Coriolanus (Tom Blyth) who is the last hope for his failing lineage, the once-proud Snow family that has fallen from grace in a post-war Capitol. With his livelihood threatened, Snow is reluctantly assigned to mentor Lucy Gray Baird (Rachel Zegler), a tribute from the impoverished District 12.
But after Lucy Gray’s charm captivates the audience of Panem, Snow sees an opportunity to shift their fates. With everything he has worked for hanging in the balance, Snow unites with Lucy Gray to turn the odds in their favor. Battling his instincts for both good and evil, Snow sets out on a race against time to survive and reveal if he will ultimately become a songbird or a snake.”
As well as Tom Blyth and Rachel Zegler, The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes stars Peter Dinklage (Game of Thones, She Came to Me), Hunter Schafer (Euphoria), Josh Andrés Rivera (West Side Story), Jason Schwartzman (Asteroid City, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World), and Viola Davis (Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, The Woman King).
Rachel Zegler’s Lucy Gray Baird Will Be Very Different to Jennifer Lawrence’s Katniss Everdeen
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire director Francis Lawrence returns to the Capitol to helm The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes, and has revealed how Rachel Zegler’s Lucy Gray Baird differs from the iconic Katniss Everdeen, playing throughout the franchise by Jennifer Lawrence.
“Katniss was an introvert and a survivor,” Lawrence explained. “She was quite quiet and stoic, you could almost say [she was] asexual. Lucy Gray is the opposite. She wears her sexuality on her sleeve, [and] she really is a performer.”
Not only is Lucy much more of an extrovert when compared to Katniss, she loves to play to the crowd. Something that Katniss absolutely despised. Which all suggests that the hero of The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes will bring a very different presence to the dystopian world of the series. “She loves crowds. She knows how to play crowds and manipulate people,” Lawrence continued.
The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes is scheduled to be released in the United States on November 17, 2023, by Lionsgate Films.
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