The film, set 64 years earlier than Katniss Everdeen entered the Video games, facilities on younger Coriolanus Snow and options each Viola Davis and Peter Dinklage.
Able to return to Panem?
The primary trailer for “The Starvation Video games” prequel movie, “The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes,” dropped Thursday — giving followers a glimpse at what it was like a long time earlier than Katniss Everdeen was even born.
In accordance with the official synopsis for the movie from Lionsgate, the film follows “a younger Coriolanus (Tom Blyth) who’s the final hope for his failing lineage, the once-proud Snow household that has fallen from grace in a post-war Capitol.” Coriolanus, after all, will later grow to be President Snow — performed by Donald Sutherland within the authentic quadrilogy.
“Along with his livelihood threatened, Snow is reluctantly assigned to mentor Lucy Grey Baird (Rachel Zegler), a tribute from the impoverished District 12,” the synopsis continues. “However after Lucy Grey’s appeal captivates the viewers of Panem, Snow sees a possibility to shift their fates. With every part he has labored for hanging within the steadiness, Snow unites with Lucy Grey to show the percentages of their favor.”
“Battling his instincts for each good and evil, Snow units out on a race in opposition to time to outlive and reveal if he’ll finally grow to be a songbird or a snake,” it concludes.
The footage reveals Peter Dinklage — because the creator of the Starvation Video games themselves — tasking Snow with turning the rivals into “spectacles, not survivors.” We additionally get glimpses of an evil-looking Viola Davis in motion, Jason Schwartzman as Lucretius ‘Fortunate’ Flickerman and “Euphoria’s” Hunter Schafer.
It ends with Sutherland’s voice saying, “It is the issues we love most that destroy us” from the unique films.
The film hits theaters November 17, 2023.
