May the odds always be in your favor. President Snow is a notorious villain The Hunger Games fans love to hate – and they’ll get their own backstory.
“Lionsgate has always been a cinematic home The Hunger Gamesand I am happy to be able to return to them with this new book,” the author Suzanne Collins toward Entertainment Weekly in an April 2020 statement. “From the beginning, he treated the source material with respect, respected the thematic and narrative elements of the story, and assembled an incredible team in front of and behind the camera.”
Collins, who made the hit The Hunger Games franchise, writing an entire prequel novel about the origin of President Snow (played by Donald Sutherland in the OG movie). The book, titled The ballad of the songbird and the snakepublished in May 2020 and follows 18-year-old Coriolanus Snow as he prepares to become the first mentor in Panem’s 10th annual Hunger Games. Looking for one chance at glory and money, Snow is paired with District 12 underdog Lucy Gray Baird.
“It’s great to be together again [producer] Nina [Jacobson], [director] Francis [Lawrence] and [screenwriter] Michael [Arndt] to adapt the novel to the screen, and for him to share his incredible talent, once again, with the world of Panem,” added Collins in his 2020 statement. “I look forward to collaborating with him and everyone at Lionsgate as we bring The ballad of the songbird and the snake to theaters around the world.”
While few details about the upcoming adaptation have been revealed, it is set to take place more than 60 years before the events of The Hunger Games. In the first flick, Sutherland’s Snow becomes the country’s president and presides over the Games. The four-film franchise premiered in 2012 and was star-studded Jennifer Lawrence (Katniss Everdeen), Liam Hemsworth (Gale Hawthorne), Josh Hutcherson (Peeta Mellark), Woody Harrelson (Haymitch Abernathy), Elizabeth Banks (Effie Trinket) and Stanley Tucci (Caesar Flickerman).
“It’s funny because we actually spit [where the characters would end up] one day,” Hutcherson exclusively told Us Weekly in September 2020 when asked if he would play the District 12 baker again. “We were talking about, like… the Hunger Games and Peeta and Katniss [when they] are older and have children and then the movie ends, but then what if we take the story and it’s like, 10 years later and there’s a new rebellion that has to happen or something like that happens.
He added: “I want to hope and think that they live happily ever after and that the world is equal and beautiful. But history will always repeat itself. So I think there may be more turmoil to come.”
When in Bridge to Terabithia The actor would love to reprise his role once again, he said us when he hasn’t received a call about potential The ballad of the songbird and the snake cameos.
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