The Ballad Of Songbirds And Snakes’ Film – Deadline

Tom Blyth, who stars in Epix’s Western collection Billy the Child, has been solid because the younger Coriolanus Snow The Starvation Video games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, Lionsgate’s upcoming adaptation of Suzanne Collins’ newest installment in her bestselling YA collection.

The studio revealed the information Monday that Blyth will painting Snow within the years earlier than he would grow to be the tyrannical President of Panem; the character was performed by Donald Sutherland within the unique 4 Starvation Video games motion pictures from 2012-2015.

Collins’ Songbirds and Snakes, printed in 2020, finds 18-year-old Coriolanus Snow because the final hope for his fading lineage, a once-proud household that has fallen from grace in a post-war Capitol. With the tenth annual Starvation Video games quick approaching, the younger Snow is alarmed when he’s assigned to mentor Lucy Grey Baird, the lady tribute from impoverished District 12. However, after Lucy Grey instructions all of Panem’s consideration by defiantly singing in the course of the reaping ceremony, Snow thinks he would possibly have the ability to flip the percentages of their favor. Uniting their instincts for showmanship and newfound political savvy, Snow and Lucy’s race towards time to outlive will in the end reveal who’s a songbird, and who’s a snake.

Lionsgate stated throughout final month’s CinemaCon that it has set a November 17, 2023 launch for the prequel, the identical pre-Thanksgiving hall the place Starvation Video games sequels Catching Hearth, Mockingjay Half One and Mockingjay Half Two opened. The sequels had been directed by Francis Lawrence, who returns to helm the brand new pic. The most recent draft of the screenplay is by Michael Lesslie (Macbeth, Murderer’s Creed).

Total, the franchise has grossed greater than $3 billion on the international field workplace.

Blyth, whose credit embrace The Gilded Age and Benediction, is repped by Gersh, United Brokers within the UK, MJ Administration, and Sloane, Supply.