The Starvation Video games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes lastly has a trailer. As a part of its CinemaCon presentation in Las Vegas, Lionsgate dropped the primary footage for The Starvation Video games prequel film, which charts the youthful days of Coriolanus Snow (Tom Blyth), lengthy earlier than he turns into the antagonist — the Capitol president — within the authentic Jennifer Lawrence-led trilogy. Francis Lawrence returns to direct this standalone arc, from a script by Michael Arndt (Little Miss Sunshine) and Michael Lesslie (Murderer’s Creed). After all, the upcoming movie is tailored straight from Suzanne Collins’ 2020 novel.
The trailer for The Starvation Video games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes takes us again 64 years earlier than the occasions of The Starvation Video games, in the course of the tenth version of the annual Starvation Video games, as head gamemaker Dr. Volumnia Gaul (Viola Davis), introduces the creator of the video games. “I’ve summoned you all right here for the tenth Annual Reaping Ceremony, through which we select two youngsters from every District to battle to the loss of life within the Starvation Video games,” Dean Casca Highbottom (Peter Dinklage) says.
As we’re launched to Lucy Grey Baird (Rachel Zegler), the woman tribute from the impoverished District 12, Highbottom adjustments the principles, asking Snow and different Capitol youth to mentor the opponents. The 18-year-old Snow has been searching for an opportunity at redemption since his once-proud lineage fell from grace in a post-war Capitol.
“You actually wish to maintain me in that area?”, a determined Lucy asks. “Begin by pondering I can really win.” The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes trailer then introduces Fortunate Flickerman (Jason Schwartzman), the first-ever host of the damaging video games, who’s seen counting all the way down to the second the spherical begins. In the meantime, Dr. Gaul has a non-public discuss with Snow, describing the manipulative results of The Starvation Video games — the fear of turning into prey might simply flip somebody right into a predator. “See how shortly civilisation disappears?”, she says, as we’re handled to visuals of the individuals making an attempt to stab each other.
“There is a pure goodness constructed into us all,” Lucy tells Snow, because the pair enterprise into the forest. “We are able to step throughout that line into evil, or not.” Over the course of the movie, Snow will probably be caught between two forces of nature: the charming Lucy and the villainous Dr. Gaul, finally shaping his nature for the years to come back. Director Lawrence alluded in an earlier interview that Lucy is supposed so as to add a kind of steadiness to the brutal world of Panam, due to her melodious singing voice which was proven off in the course of the reaping ceremony, turning heads. Snow believes that pairing up with Lucy is a good thought, as they might unite their instincts for showmanship and newfound political savvy to raised his place.
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes trailer additionally factors in the direction of some horrific contraptions Dr. Gaul has in retailer for the individuals, together with a tank of rainbow/ oil spill-coloured snakes. Some college students on the college, understandably appear distressed concerning the cruelty of the video games. The movie additionally stars Euphoria-fame Hunter Schafer as Coriolanus’s older cousin Tigris Snow, and Burn Gorman (Enola Holmes) as Commander Hoff.
The Starvation Video games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes releases November 17 in theatres worldwide.
