Adrian Ventura The Hunger Games spin-off/prequel film, The Hunger Games series–The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, gets additional casting news. Actress Rachel Zegler has joined the cast as Lucy Gray Baird, the female tribute from District 12 in the 10th Hunger Games. Zegler will be joining Tom Blyth, who will be playing the young Coriolanus Snow, who will become President Snow, played by Donald Sutherland in the original trilogy.
Francis Lawrence, who directed The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1, and The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2, will direct the film. Michael Arndt will write the script with Nina Jacobson and author Suzanne Collins as producers. Suzanne Collins, Tim Palen, and Jim Miller will serve as executive producers.
The synopsis for the book is as follows:
It is the morning of the reaping that will kick off the tenth annual Hunger Games. In the Capitol, eighteen-year-old Coriolanus Snow is preparing for his one shot at glory as a mentor in the Games. The once-mighty house of Snow has fallen on hard times, its fate hanging on the slender chance that Coriolanus will be able to outcharm, outwit, and outmaneuver his fellow students to mentor the winning tribute.
The odds are against him. He’s been given the humiliating assignment of mentoring the female tribute from District 12, the lowest of the low. Their fates are now completely intertwined — every choice Coriolanus makes could lead to favor or failure, triumph or ruin. Inside the arena, it will be a fight to the death. Outside the arena, Coriolanus starts to feel for his doomed tribute . . . and must weigh his need to follow the rules against his desire to survive no matter what it takes.
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes will hit theaters on November 17, 2023.
