Might the chances be ever in his favor. President Snow is the infamous villain that Hunger Games followers like to hate — and he’s about to get his own backstory film.
“Lionsgate has all the time been the cinematic residence of The Hunger Games, and I’m delighted to be returning to them with this new ebook,” writer Suzanne Collins instructed Entertainment Weekly in an April 2020 assertion. “From the start, they’ve handled the supply materials with nice respect, honoring the thematic and narrative elements of the story, and assembling an unbelievable group each in entrance of and behind the digicam.”
Collins, who created the hit Starvation Video games franchise, penned a prequel novel all in regards to the origins of President Snow (performed by Donald Sutherland within the OG motion pictures). The ebook, titled The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, was printed in Might 2020 and follows an 18-year-old Coriolanus Snow as he prepares to be a first-time mentor in Panem’s tenth annual Starvation Video games. Trying to find his one likelihood at glory and cash, Snow is paired with District 12 underdog Lucy Grey Baird.
“It’s such a pleasure to be reuniting with [producer] Nina [Jacobson], [director] Francis [Lawrence] and [screenwriter] Michael [Arndt] to adapt the novel to the display, and having them share their outstanding skills, as soon as once more, with the world of Panem,” Collins added in her 2020 assertion. “I stay up for collaborating with them and all at Lionsgate as we convey The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes to theaters worldwide.”
Whereas few particulars in regards to the forthcoming adaption have been revealed, it’s set to take place more than 60 years before the occasions of The Starvation Video games. Within the first flick, Sutherland’s Snow is the nation’s president and is presiding over the Video games. The four-film franchise premiered in 2012 and starred 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 humorous ‘trigger we actually spit-balled about [where the characters would end up] on set someday,” Hutcherson exclusively told Us Weekly in September 2020 when requested whether or not he would ever play the District 12 baker once more. “We have been type of speaking about, like … the Starvation Video games and Peeta and Katniss [when they] are older they usually have a child after which the film ends, however then what if we choose up the story and it’s, like, 10 years later and there’s a brand new riot that has to occur or one thing like that ended up.”
He added: “I’d prefer to hope and suppose that they’re dwelling fortunately and that the world is equal and wonderful. However historical past is doomed to repeat itself. So, I really feel like there is likely to be some extra unrest that will come alongside.”
Whereas the Bridge to Terabithia actor would fortunately reprise his position as soon as extra, he instructed Us on the time that he had not acquired a name relating to a potential Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes cameo.
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