The first official trailer for “The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes” is out, having marked its big debut at CinemaCon 2023.
The teaser reveals a new cast including “West Side Story’s” Rachel Zegler, Hunter Schafer of “Euphoria,” and Viola Davis. Rewinding the clock 64 years before the rebellions of Jennifer Lawrence’s “Hunger Games.” The new movie pulls viewers into the 2020 prequel novel by Suzanne Collins, who also penned the first series.
The action adventure follows young President Snow (previously played by Donald Sutherland in the first franchise) long before he becomes a white rose-sniffing tyrant. Instead, in “The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes,” the president is 18-year-old Coriolanus Snow, a boy who has been tapped to mentor District 12 tribute Lucy Gray Baird (Zegler) in the 10th annual Hunger Games.
“The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes” is scheduled to appear in theaters on November 17, 2023.
