The prequel toThe   Hunger Gamesfranchise , titledThe Hunger Games : The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes , will focus on young Coriolanus   Snow ’s political ascent to power .   The first flick adaptation of the untried adult novel   by   Suzanne Collins   premier in 2012 with three others to follow afterward . The books andfilms follow Katniss Everdeen(played by   Jennifer Lawrence ) , a young charwoman in a dystopian future where 2 youths   from each of 12 districts in the raw America , named Panem , are chosen every year to compete in a battle to the death until there is a solitary subsister . Katniss volunteers to vie in the Hunger Games for take the place of her sister .

The film adaptations of theHunger Gamesfranchise force in over $ 2.97 billion worldwide , so it ’s no surprise that Lionsgate has sought to keep things expire with a movie rendering ofThe Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes . Collins ' prequel novel was issue in 2020 and centers on a young Coriolanus Snow , the man who will one twenty-four hour period go on to be Panem ’s nefarious President of the United States . Development on the movie has been afoot for a duo age now , and Lionsgate lately announcedThe Ballad of Songbirds and Snakeswill arrive in theatre in November 2023 .

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Today , along with the intelligence that Tom Blyth has beencast as young Snow , Lionsgate has unveiled the official outline forThe Hunger Games : The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes . The new plot details , which follow along closely with Collins ' novel , preview Snow ’s political rise and his relationship with Lucy Gray Baird . The synopsis say as follows :

age before he would become the tyrannical President of Panem , 18 - class - old Coriolanus Snow is the last hope for his fading blood , a once - majestic kinsfolk that has lessen from grace in a post - war Capitol . With the tenth one-year Hunger Games fast near , the young Snow is alarmed when he is assigned to mentor Lucy Gray Baird , the girl tribute from impoverished District 12 . But , after Lucy Gray command all of Panem ’s attention by contumaciously sing during the reaping observance , Snow thinks he might be able to turn the odds in their favour . Uniting their instincts for showmanship and newfound political savvy , Snow and Lucy ’s race against prison term to subsist will at long last unwrap who is a songster , and who is a snake .

The director of the last three motion picture inThe Hunger Gamesfranchise ,   Francis Lawrence , will also helm the coming film .   Michael Lesslie is adapting the playscript from the book , and Collins will be an   executive manufacturer . Blyth , who leadsEpix ’s Western seriesBilly the Kid , will have large shoes to fill as young Snow due to Donald Sutherland ’s excellently perturbing performance inThe Hunger Gamesfilms as the President of the United States . As the synopsis hint , The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakeswon’t shy away from Snow ’s drab nature , so Blyth could show to be excellent molding .

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With Collins on dining table to executive grow the photographic film , and Lesslie , the author of 2015 ’s critically acclaim version ofMacbeth , adapt the novel for the screen , there is likely for a   script   with plenty of suspense , twists , and release that fans of theHunger Gamesnovels know and love . have Lawrence directingThe Ballad of Songbirds and Snakeshopefully will also give it a sense of continuity with the past photographic film and the overall world that the enfranchisement takes place in , despite the prequel   need place several years prior to the original books . It already sounds likeThe Ballad of Songbirds and Snakesmoviewill hew fair close to the novel , so those who enjoyed the book will hopefully be pleased by the film adaptation . witness will have to judge for themselves whether the new prequel film can add even more depth to an already complex graphic symbol   whenThe Hunger game : The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakespremieres .

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