Viola Davis Is the Newest Actor to Be a part of the HUNGER GAMES Prequel THE BALLAD OF SONGBIRDS AND SNAKES — GeekTyrant

The Academy Award-winning actress Viola Davis (The Assist, Fences) is the most recent star to hitch the forged of the anticipated prequel movie The Starvation Video games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. She’s going to tackle the function of Head Gamemaker Volumnia Gaul, within the ensemble led by Tom Blyth and Rachel Zegler.

Starvation Video games director Francis Lawrence is returning to the franchise to helm the prequel, primarily based on the books by Suzanne Collins. Michael Lesslie (Macbeth) penned the latest draft of the screenplay—constructing on the work of Collins and Oscar winner Michael Arndt (Catching Hearth).

The story “picks up with Coriolanus Snow (Blyth) at age 18—years earlier than he would develop into the tyrannical President of Panem—at some extent when he’s 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 (Zegler), the woman 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 may be capable of flip the chances of their favor. Uniting their instincts for showmanship and newfound political savvy, Snow and Lucy’s race in opposition to time to outlive will finally reveal who’s a songbird, and who’s a snake.”

The Starvation Video games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes is ready to hit theatrers subsequent yr. Are you wanting ahead to this new story?

through: Deadline