

With the 10th annual Hunger Games fast approaching, the young Snow is alarmed when he is assigned to mentor Lucy Gray Baird, the girl tribute from impoverished District 12.

Here's the full Lionsgate synopsis: "Years before he would become the tyrannical president of Panem, 18-year-old Coriolanus Snow is the last hope for his fading lineage, a once-proud family that has fallen from grace in a post-war Capitol. (For reference, Katniss volunteered as tribute for the 74th.) Teenage Snow, not yet the dictatorial ruler he'd turn out to be, senses some opportunity in Baird, the tribute he's given to mentor.
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According to Lionsgate, the movie will focus in part on the lead up to the 10th Hunger Games. What is The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes about?Ĭollins' novel The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes is set 64 years before the events of the initial trilogy. Here's more on the cast, the plot and when we'll be making our official return to Panem. The original films brought in more than $3 billion globally, according to Lionsgate. A refresh: We know Snow from past movies as the ruthless president portrayed by Donald Sutherland. The film adaptation is scheduled to hit theaters in November 2023, roughly eight years after Mockingjay Part 2, and follows a younger Coriolanus Snow (Blyth) who mentors District 12 tribute Lucy Gray Baird (Zegler). In July, Deadline broke the news that Game of Thrones' Peter Dinklage will star alongside previously announced actors Rachel Zegler and Tom Blyth. While the Lionsgate flick is still awhile off, a flurry of casting announcements in May and June along with a striking, ice-coated teaser have stoked excitement for the games to begin. The Hunger Games movie franchise is expanding with a prequel film called The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, based on a 2020 book of the same name by Suzanne Collins.
