Mumbai: The trailer of ‘The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes’ has been unveiled. The movie, which stars Tom Blyth, Hunter Schafer, Rachel Zelger, Peter Dinklage, Viola Davis, Josh Andres Rivera and Jason Schwartzman, follows the story of 18-12 months-previous Coriolanus Snow through the tenth annual Hunger Games as he reluctantly mentors Lucy, a tribute from District 12.
It is headlined by Emmy Award winner Peter Dinklage of ‘Game of Thrones’ fame and Academy Award winner Viola Davis with the lead, Tom Blyth set to take over the mantle from Donald Sutherland, to embody a youthful Coriolanus Snow.
In dialog with the ‘Happy Sad Confused’ podcast, Rachel Zegler opened up about how she initially turned down the position 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’.”
She additional talked about: “And I met with him for like 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 got 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 launch ‘The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes’ in theatres in India on November 17, 2023.
