The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes lastly has a trailer. As half of its CinemaCon presentation in Las Vegas, Lionsgate dropped the primary footage for The Hunger Games prequel film, which charts the youthful days of Coriolanus Snow (Tom Blyth), lengthy earlier than he turns into the antagonist — the Capitol president — within the authentic Jennifer Lawrence-led trilogy. Francis Lawrence returns to direct this standalone arc, from a script by Michael Arndt (Little Miss Sunshine) and Michael Lesslie (Assassin’s Creed). Of course, the upcoming movie is customized immediately from Suzanne Collins’ 2020 novel.
The trailer for The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes takes us again 64 years earlier than the occasions of The Hunger Games, in the course of the tenth version of the annual Hunger Games, as head gamemaker Dr. Volumnia Gaul (Viola Davis), introduces the creator of the video games. “I have summoned you all here for the 10th Annual Reaping Ceremony, in which we choose two children from each District to fight to the death in the Hunger Games,” Dean Casca Highbottom (Peter Dinklage) says.
As we’re launched to Lucy Gray Baird (Rachel Zegler), the woman tribute from the impoverished District 12, Highbottom adjustments the principles, asking Snow and different Capitol youth to mentor the rivals. The 18-year-old Snow has been on the lookout for an opportunity at redemption since his once-proud lineage fell from grace in a post-war Capitol.
“You really want to take care of me in that arena?”, a determined Lucy asks. “Start by thinking I can actually win.” The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes trailer then introduces Lucky Flickerman (Jason Schwartzman), the first-ever host of the damaging video games, who’s seen counting all the way down to the second the spherical begins. Meanwhile, Dr. Gaul has a non-public speak with Snow, describing the manipulative results of The Hunger Games — the phobia of turning into prey may simply flip somebody right into a predator. “See how quickly civilisation disappears?”, she says, as we’re handled to visuals of the contributors attempting to stab each other.
“There’s a natural goodness built into us all,” Lucy tells Snow, because the pair enterprise into the forest. “We can step across that line into evil, or not.” Over the course of the movie, Snow might be caught between two forces of nature: the charming Lucy and the villainous Dr. Gaul, finally shaping his nature for the years to come back. Director Lawrence alluded in an earlier interview that Lucy is supposed so as to add a sort of steadiness to the brutal world of Panam, due to her melodious singing voice which was proven off in the course of the reaping ceremony, turning heads. Snow believes that pairing up with Lucy is a superb concept, as they might unite their instincts for showmanship and newfound political savvy to higher his place.
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes trailer additionally factors in direction of some horrific contraptions Dr. Gaul has in retailer for the contributors, together with a tank of rainbow/ oil spill-coloured snakes. Some college students on the college, understandably appear distressed concerning the cruelty of the video games. The movie additionally stars Euphoria-fame Hunter Schafer as Coriolanus’s older cousin Tigris Snow, and Burn Gorman (Enola Holmes) as Commander Hoff.
The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes releases November 17 in theatres worldwide.
