Lionsgate has released a first look at Rachel Zegler and Tom Blyth in The Hunger Games: Ballad of Songbirds And Snakes, the prequel to the Jennifer Lawrence Katniss Everdeen movies.
Rachel Zegler plays Lucy Gray Baird, with Tom Blyth as Coriolanus Snow, and it was also recently announced Viola Davis is playing the villain.
The film gets released on November 17, 2023 directed by Hunger Games director Francis Lawrence, with the screenplay by Michael Arndt and Michael Lesslie, based on the novel by Suzanne Collins, with Nina Jacobson, Brad Simpson, and Francis Lawrence producing.
Return to The Hunger Games, the landmark film franchise that has earned over $3 billion globally, with Lionsgate’s adaptation of Suzanne Collins’ #1 New York Times Bestseller The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes.
Years before he would become the tyrannical President of Panem, 18-year-old Coriolanus Snow (Tom Blyth) is the last hope for his fading lineage, a once-proud family that has fallen from grace in a post-war Capitol. With the 10th annual Hunger Games fast approaching, the young Snow is alarmed when he is assigned to mentor Lucy Gray Baird (Rachel Zegler), the girl tribute from impoverished District 12. But, after Lucy Gray commands all of Panem’s attention by defiantly singing during the reaping ceremony, Snow thinks he might be able to turn the odds in their favor. Uniting their instincts for showmanship and newfound political savvy, Snow and Lucy Gray’s race against time to survive will ultimately reveal who is a songbird, and who is a snake.