The extremely anticipated Hunger Games prequel film, “The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes,” has rounded out its stacked solid. On Sept. 16, Deadline reported 11 new names added to the Rachel Zegler– and Tom Blyth-led movie, many filling in roles of characters from Panem’s districts.
The casting information comes a month after Lionsgate debuted a first-look picture from the prequel. The picture, launched on Aug. 16, exhibits Zegler’s Lucy Gray Baird and Blyth’s younger Coriolanus Snow sharing a quiet second collectively cuddled up. The official Lionsgate account wrote alongside the picture on Twitter, “This is a narrative about love. And we love every kind of issues we do not belief.”
“The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes” solid options large names like Viola Davis, who will star as Dr. Volumnia Gaul, the top gamemaker for the tenth annual Hunger Games — however she’s not the one award-winning identify to signal onto the movie. On July 18, Deadline reported that Emmy winner Peter Dinklage joined the solid as Casca Highbottom, the dean of the Academy. “Euphoria” star Hunter Schafer additionally stars within the movie Tigris Snow, Coriolanus’s cousin and confidante who advises him on every little thing, based on Lionsgate.
Lionsgate introduced at CinemaCon on April 28 that the film is at the moment in manufacturing and might be launched Nov. 17, 2023. The forthcoming film relies on Hunger Games creator Suzanne Collins’s prequel of the identical identify that was launched in May 2020. The plot revolves round an 18-year-old Coriolanus, who’s chosen to mentor Lucy — a tribute from District 12 through the tenth Hunger Games — whereas attending the academy within the Capitol.
The story’s occasions happen 64 years earlier than the unique novels and movies and solely 10 years after Panem’s first insurrection. While Katniss Everdeen’s Panem is beneath harsh authorities management, this Panem continues to be grappling with the aftereffects of the struggle. At CinemaCon, Lionsgate performed footage from the film however did not reveal any extra specifics. The transient clip solely confirmed icy tree branches, together with textual content that learn, “The world will uncover who’s a songbird and who’s a snake.”
The authentic Hunger Games films starred Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss, the unlikely and reluctant hero who turns into the image of a revolution. Lawrence was joined by Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Amandla Stenberg, Woody Harrelson, Elizabeth Banks, Stanley Tucci, Lenny Kravitz, and Sam Claflin. Donald Sutherland performed the menacing President Coriolanus Snow within the authentic movies.
Read forward for every little thing we learn about “The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes” up to now, together with the solid, plot, launch date, and extra.