{"id":639,"date":"2023-06-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-27T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sup-yumigahama.com\/uncategorized\/the-ballad-of-songbirds-and-snakes-everything-to-know-about-the-hunger-games-prequel-starring-young-president-snow\/"},"modified":"2023-07-20T08:21:09","modified_gmt":"2023-07-20T08:21:09","slug":"the-ballad-of-songbirds-and-snakes-everything-to-know-about-the-hunger-games-prequel-starring-young-president-snow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sup-yumigahama.com\/entertainment\/the-ballad-of-songbirds-and-snakes-everything-to-know-about-the-hunger-games-prequel-starring-young-president-snow\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes\u2019: Everything to Know About the \u2018Hunger Games\u2019 Prequel Starring Young President Snow"},"content":{"rendered":"
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May the odds be ever in his favor. President Snow is the notorious villain that\u00a0Hunger Games<\/a>\u00a0<\/i>fans love to hate \u2014 and he\u2019s about to get his own backstory<\/a> movie.<\/p>\n

\u201cLionsgate has always been the cinematic home of\u00a0The Hunger Games<\/i><\/a>, and I\u2019m delighted to be returning to them with this new book,\u201d author Suzanne Collins<\/strong><\/a> told\u00a0Entertainment Weekly<\/a>\u00a0<\/i>in an April 2020 statement. \u201cFrom the beginning, they have treated the source material with great respect, honoring the thematic and narrative elements of the story<\/a>, and assembling an incredible team both in front of and behind the camera.\u201d<\/p>\n

Collins, who created the hit\u00a0Hunger Games\u00a0<\/i>franchise, penned a prequel novel all about the origins of President Snow (played by Donald Sutherland<\/strong> <\/a>in the OG movies). The book, titled The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes<\/i>, was published in May 2020 and follows an 18-year-old Coriolanus Snow as he prepares to be a first-time mentor in Panem\u2019s 10th annual Hunger Games. Searching for his one chance at glory and money, Snow is paired with District 12 underdog Lucy Gray Baird.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s such a pleasure to be reuniting with [producer] Nina [Jacobson]<\/strong><\/a>, [director] Francis [Lawrence]<\/strong><\/a> and [screenwriter] Michael [Arndt]<\/strong> to adapt the novel to the screen, and having them share their remarkable talents, once again, with the world of Panem,\u201d Collins added in her 2020 statement. \u201cI look forward to collaborating with them and all at Lionsgate as we bring\u00a0The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes<\/i>\u00a0to theaters worldwide.\u201d<\/p>\n

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While few details about the forthcoming adaption have been revealed, it is set to take place more than 60 years before<\/a> the events of\u00a0The Hunger Games<\/i>. In the first flick, Sutherland\u2019s\u00a0Snow is the nation\u2019s president and is presiding over the Games. The four-film franchise premiered in 2012<\/a> and starred Jennifer Lawrence<\/strong> <\/a>(Katniss Everdeen), Liam Hemsworth<\/strong><\/a> (Gale Hawthorne), Josh Hutcherson<\/strong><\/a> (Peeta Mellark), Woody Harrelson<\/strong><\/a> (Haymitch Abernathy), Elizabeth Banks<\/strong> <\/a>(Effie Trinket) and Stanley Tucci<\/strong> <\/a>(Caesar Flickerman).<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s funny \u2018cause we actually spit-balled about [where the characters would end up] on set<\/a> one day,\u201d Hutcherson exclusively told\u00a0Us Weekly<\/i>\u00a0in September 2020<\/a> when asked whether he would ever play the District 12 baker again. \u201cWe were sort of talking about, like \u2026 the Hunger Games and Peeta and Katniss [when they] are older and they have a kid and then the movie ends, but then what if we pick up the story and it\u2019s, like, 10 years later and there\u2019s a new rebellion that has to happen or something like that ended up.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added: \u201cI\u2019d like to hope and think that they are living happily and that the world is equal and lovely. But history is doomed to repeat itself. So, I feel like there might be some more unrest that would come along.\u201d<\/p>\n

While the\u00a0Bridge to Terabithia<\/i>\u00a0actor would happily reprise his role once more, he told\u00a0Us\u00a0<\/i>at the time that he had not received a call regarding a potential\u00a0Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes\u00a0<\/i>cameo<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Scroll below for everything we know so far about the latest\u00a0Hunger Games\u00a0<\/i>movie:<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

May the odds be ever in his favor. President Snow is the notorious villain that\u00a0Hunger Games\u00a0fans love to hate \u2014 and he\u2019s about to get his own backstory movie. \u201cLionsgate…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":640,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sup-yumigahama.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sup-yumigahama.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sup-yumigahama.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sup-yumigahama.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sup-yumigahama.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=639"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sup-yumigahama.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":641,"href":"https:\/\/sup-yumigahama.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639\/revisions\/641"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sup-yumigahama.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sup-yumigahama.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sup-yumigahama.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sup-yumigahama.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}