Set “64 years earlier than Katniss Everdeen volunteered as tribute, and many years earlier than Coriolanus Snow grew to become the tyrannical President of Panem,” The Starvation Video games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes explores the origin story of that future tyrant. After a few cryptic teasers, a full trailer has lastly arrived.
Yep, that’s Peter Dinklage, as soon as once more enjoying a personality who drinks and is aware of issues, plus just a little vocal cameo from Donald Sutherland, who performed Snow in the principle Starvation Video games films. Primarily based on the e book by Suzanne Collins, the prequel is directed by Starvation Video games collection veteran Francis Lawrence and has a screenplay by Michael Lesslie and Michael Arndt. Right here’s the official synopsis:
“The Starvation Video games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes follows a younger Coriolanus (Tom Blyth) who’s the final hope for his failing lineage, the once-proud Snow household that has fallen from grace in a post-war Capitol. Together with his livelihood threatened, Snow is reluctantly assigned to mentor Lucy Grey Baird (Rachel Zegler), a tribute from the impoverished District 12. However after Lucy Grey’s allure captivates the viewers of Panem, Snow sees a chance to shift their fates. With every part he has labored for hanging within the stability, Snow unites with Lucy Grey to show the percentages of their favor. Battling his instincts for each good and evil, Snow units out on a race in opposition to time to outlive and reveal if he’ll in the end change into a songbird or a snake.”
Together with Dinklage, Blyth, and Zegler, the solid consists of Hunter Schafer, Josh Andrés Rivera, Jason Schwartzman, and Viola Davis. It arrives in theaters November 17.
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