The Hunger Games prequel The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes has released its first teaser poster featuring the creatures in the film’s title. The golden poster shows a songbird and a snake engaged in battle.
Rachel Zegler, currently on screen in Shazam! Fury of the Gods, stars as District 12’s tribute Lucy Gray Baird. Billy the Kid‘s Tom Blyth stars as Coriolanus Snow.
The huge ensemble includes Oscar winner Viola Davis as Head Gamemaker Volumnia Gaul; Peter Dinklage as Cesca Highbottom, the Dean of the Academy; Jerome Lance as Marcus, tribute from District 2; Ashley Liao as Clemensia Dovecote, one of Coriolanus’s closest friends and mentor to a tribute from District 11; Knox Gibson plays Bobbin, tribute from District 8; Mackenzie Lansing is Coral, tribute from District 4; and Aamer Husain plays Felix Ravinstill, mentor to a tribute from District 11.
Jason Schwartzman is on board as Lucretius “Lucky” Flickerman, the host of the 10th Hunger Games and an ancestor of Caesar Flickerman; Fionnula Flanagan is Grandma’am, Coriolanus’s strict grandmother; Isobel Jesper Jones plays Mayfair Lipp, daughter of the mayor of District 12; Flora Li Thiemann plays Livia Cardew, mentor to a tribute from District 1; and Burn Gorman is Commander Hoff, Scott Folan is Beanpole, and Carl Spencer is Smiley, Peacekeepers sent by the Capitol to District 12.
Honor Gillies, Eike Onyambu, and Konstantin Taffet play members of the Covey, a group of nomads in District 12. Michael Greco and Daniela Grubert are Strabo Plinth and Mrs. Plinth, wealthy parents to Sejanus Plinth, Coriolanus’s best friend, played by Josh Andrés Rivera.
Francis Lawrence (Catching Fire, Mockingjay Part 1, Mockingjay Part 2) is directing from a screenplay by Michael Lesslie and Michael Arndt. Lawrence, Nina Jacobson, and Brad Simpson are producing, with author Suzanne Collins, Tim Palen, Mika Saito, and Jim Miller executive producing.
Lionsgate’s The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes opens in theaters November 17, 2023.
The Plot:
The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes follows a young Coriolanus (Tom Blyth) who is the last hope for his failing lineage, the once-proud Snow family that has fallen from grace in a post-war Capitol. With his livelihood threatened, Snow is reluctantly assigned to mentor Lucy Gray Baird (Rachel Zegler), a tribute from the impoverished District 12. But after Lucy Gray’s charm captivates the audience of Panem, Snow sees an opportunity to shift their fates.
With everything he has worked for hanging in the balance, Snow unites with Lucy Gray to turn the odds in their favor. Battling his instincts for both good and evil, Snow sets out on a race against time to survive and reveal if he will ultimately become a songbird or a snake.
