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The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes movie storyline. Experience the story of The Hunger Games – 64 years before Katniss Everdeen volunteered as tribute, and decades before Coriolanus Snow became the tyrannical President of Panem. The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes follows a young Coriolanus (Tom Blyth) who is the last hope for his failing lineage, the once-proud Snow family that has fallen from grace in a post-war Capitol.
With his livelihood threatened, Snow is reluctantly assigned to mentor Lucy Gray Baird (Rachel Zegler), a tribute from the impoverished District 12. But after Lucy Gray’s charm captivates the audience of Panem, Snow sees an opportunity to shift their fates. With everything he has worked for hanging in the balance, Snow unites with Lucy Gray to turn the odds in their favor. Battling his instincts for both good and evil, Snow sets out on a race against time to survive and reveal if he will ultimately become a songbird or a snake.
The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes is an upcoming American dystopian science fiction action film directed by Francis Lawrence from a screenplay by Michael Lesslie and Michael Arndt. It is based on the 2020 novel The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins, serves as a prequel to The Hunger Games (2012), and is the fifth installment in The Hunger Games film series.
The film stars Tom Blyth, Rachel Zegler, Peter Dinklage, Hunter Schafer, Josh Andrés Rivera, Jason Schwartzman, and Viola Davis. Set 64 years before the events of the first film, its plot follows a young Coriolanus Snow and the events that eventually lead him on the path to becoming the tyrannical leader of Panem, including his relationship with the Hunger Games tribute Lucy Gray Baird during the year of the 10th Hunger Games.
Filming began in Wrocław, Poland on July 11, 2022 and ended in Berlin, Germany on November 5, 2022. Filming locations in Germany included the Monument to the Battle of the Nations in Leipzig. The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes was released in the United States on November 17, 2023, by Lionsgate Films.
The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (2023)
Directed by: Francis Lawrence
Starring: Rachel Zegler, Peter Dinklage, Hunter Schafer, Tom Blyth, Josh Andrés Rivera, Jason Schwartzman, Viola Davis, Fionnula Flanagan, Burn Gorman, Ashley Liao, Luke Halpenny, Zoe Renée
Screenplay by: Michael Lesslie, Michael Arndt
Production Design by: Uli Hanisch
Cinematography by: Jo Willems
Film Editing by: Mark Yoshikawa
Costume Design by: Trish Summerville
Art Direction by: Daniel Chour, Andrea Kessler, Thorsten Klein, Stephanie Rass, Sarah Wibbeler
Music by: James Newton Howard
MPAA Rating: None.
Distributed by: Lionsgate Films
Release Date: November 17, 2023
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