9/13/2023 0 Comments Hunger games prequel movie cast![]() The story centers around an 18-year-old Coriolanus Snow, long before his tyrannical reign as President of Panem. “The reconstruction period 10 years after the war, commonly referred to as the Dark Days-as the country of Panem struggles back to its feet-provides fertile ground for characters to grapple with these questions and thereby define their views of humanity.” “With this book, I wanted to explore the state of nature, who we are and what we perceive is required for our survival,” Collins said in a statement about the book, via THR. The book is set 64 years before the beginning of the original trilogy and delves deeper into Panem’s historical roots. Below, everything else we know about the project, including whether any of the OG cast members would return. Now, Francis Lawrence-director of the final three films in the original series-will officially helm the project. Lionsgate has announced that Suzanne Collins’s new novel The Ballad of Songbirds and Snake(released May 19, 2020) will be adapted into a movie with the same title.ĭiscussions about a return to the world of Panem officially began in June 2019, with The Hollywood Reporterconfirming that Lionsgate was “eyeing” a prequel film after the announcement of Suzanne Collins' new novel. “As much as we may hate in the later movies,” says Lawrence, “to see that he is a real human being…there is something really satisfying about that.The Hunger Games hive, assemble once more. “Returning to the world of The Hunger Games has been a coming home,” Jacobson adds-as well as a journey toward a greater understanding of the series’ chief villain. You will obviously get a lot of the background of Snow, the history of the Games, the history of some of the music, where songs like ‘The Hanging Tree’ actually come from.” “Suzanne has done such a great job of going back into the mythology and telling a story about the creation of the world,” says Lawrence. Of course, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes will still have callbacks aplenty. “We also get to remake District 12, remake all of the Capitol,” he adds, “and a brand-new arena.” “To be able to show a different side of Panem at a different time in its history has been really exciting.” Lawrence teases that production designer Uli Hanisch ( The Queen’s Gambit) has been working to create a “new version” of the dystopian nation, and that many aspects of it-from the architecture to interior design-reflect the broken nature of this story’s world and characters. “It’s completely different stylistically, in terms of design, character, and point of view,” says Jacobson. Snow and his contemporaries are still reckoning with the consequences of “the dark days,” the wars that led to the Hunger Games. As shown in this exclusive first image from the film, above, she calms Snow in a way that little else in his war-torn world can.īecause this film is set decades before Katniss was born, it delves deeper into the mythology of Panem that the original films, and novels, were built upon. (“It’s thrilling to hear Rachel sing,” Jacobson says.) Her relationship with Snow starts in the arena-though it quickly grows beyond what the cameras see. Unlike Katniss, Lucy Gray hails from a group known for their close-knit, musical culture. Much like Hunger Games heroine Katniss Everdeen ( Jennifer Lawrence in the original films), she’s a tribute from District 12. That woman, Lucy Gray, adds a soft touch to the franchise’s brutal world. “He is a shape-shifter who craves control, but is drawn to a woman who threatens everything he thought he wanted.” Over the course of the film, he’ll find himself caught between two forces of nature: the charming Lucy Gray Baird ( Rachel Zegler) and the villainous Dr. “He is a young man finding his way in the world, but he also makes choices that presage the man he is becoming,” producer Nina Jacobson says. Still, the future president Snow, played in the Hunger Games films by Donald Sutherland, is no less ambitious as a high school student. Set roughly 64 years before the saga told in the original Hunger Games quadrilogy, the new film-based on Hunger Games author Suzanne Collins’s 2020 novel-follows Coriolanus Snow ( Tom Blyth) decades before he becomes the most powerful man in the dystopian land of Panem. “A very intimate love story.” He isn’t wrong. “It’s this kind of love story set in a different kind of a world in a different time,” he adds. The sentiment may be surprising, coming from the director of The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes-but there’s far more to this prequel than the Games you’re expecting. “This is very much a story about love,” says Francis Lawrence.
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