New Delhi: The odds are in favor of every Hunger Games fan! The highly anticipated trailer of 'The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes' was released on Friday. Releasing in theaters worldwide on 17 November 2023, the prequel starring Tom Blyth, Hunter Schafer, Rachel Zelger, Peter Dinklage, Viola Davis, Josh Andrés Rivera and Jason Schwartzman brings fans a brand-new cast.
The film will follow 18-year-old Coriolanus Snow during the tenth annual Hunger Games as he reluctantly mentors Lucy, a tribute from District 12. When an unlikely factor turns the tide in their favor, will Snow sing the sweet song of hope or slither into darkness with no chance at redemption?
Headlined by Emmy Award winner Peter Dinklage and Academy Award winner Viola Davis, the film will continue to raise the bar of the franchise with the acting prowess of the star-studded cast, large-scale production, and grandiose performances.
Tom Blyth is set to take over the mantle from Donald Sutherland, to embody a younger Coriolanus Snow. Rachel Zegler too, brings added charisma to the role of the fearless Lucy Gray Baird.
In conversation with the ‘Happy Sad Confused’ Podcast, Rachel Zegler opened up about how she initially turned down the role of Lucy, “Let me tell you because it's such an embarrassing story for me. I was offered the role in January of last year after wanting it so badly. I didn’t audition, it was just, I got a call from my agent that was like ‘Francis Lawrence [The Hunger Games franchise director] wants you to do this.’ And I met him for about three hours at the Soho Hotel in London. And then he told me that they were filming in Germany and in Poland and I had just gotten to London and I wanted to disappear because I was so far away from home for the first time ever. And I was away from everybody that I knew and loved, and I said ‘no’.”
Lionsgate and PVR Pictures 2023 will release ‘The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes in theaters’ in India on 17 November, 2023.