The Starvation Video games guide collection by Suzanne Collins spawned a blockbuster movie franchise and merchandising juggernaut over a decade in the past. So when the time got here for the prequel guide, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes in 2020, it was solely a matter of time earlier than we might get an adaptation.
Set 64 years earlier than the occasions of the primary movie, “Ballad” tells the story of pre-presidential Coriolanus Snow (Tom Blyth) and the story of him mentoring and growing emotions for a District 12 tribute, Lucy Grey Baird (Rachel Zegler). Lionsgate launched brand-new character posters that function Coriolanus, Lucy, but additionally Dr. Volumnia Gaul (Viola Davis), the gamemaker of the tenth Starvation Video games and the one who really made them an establishment within the first place.
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We additionally get a take a look at Fortunate Flickerman (Jason Schwartzman), the primary televised host of the Starvation Video games, who’s a doable ancestor to Caesar Flickerman (Stanley Tucci) from the primary film collection. There’s additionally Peter Dinklage as Casca “Cas” Highbottom, and one acquainted face: Tigris Snow (Hunter Schafer). Tirgis is Coriolanus’s older cousin who advises him on every part. She goes on to turn into a stylist within the Video games and an ally to Katniss and the resistance. She was performed by Eugenie Bondurant in Mockingjay: Half 2.
After the 4 unique movies had ended Lionsgate CEO Jon Feltheimer expressed curiosity in spin-offs of The Starvation Video games movie collection, and needed to type a writers’ room to discover what concepts they might put collectively all the way in which again in 2017.
The Starvation Video games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes is scheduled to be launched on November 17, 2023.
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