Jess loves to analyze and pick out the small details in movies and tv shows Screen Rant has provided Jess with the perfect outlet for these findings, much to the relief of her friends who no longer have to listen to them. Combining her education and passion for film and TV, Jess recently joined the Screen Rant team as a features writer to further explore all the different worlds the screen offers. The Ballads of Songbirds & Snakes is set to release in cinemas on 17th November 2023.Īfter years of watching anything from a 40s film noir classic to a Harry Potter adventure (more than enough times), Jess' love of the screen led her to recently receive a Masters degree in Film, TV and Screen Industries from the University of Nottingham. Although Ballads of Songbirds & Snakes is set 64 years before Katniss' story in The Hunger Games, the world of Panem will be very recognizable to audiences and will show many new aspects too. The timeline of The Ballads of Songbirds & Snakes means audiences will hear a lot of familiar names as certain Hunger Games characters will be alive, and they will see aspects of the Hunger Games being developed and introduced that are major features of The Hunger Games, such as the Jabberjays.įocusing on Coriolanus Snow’s youth will also mean audiences revisit District 12, as he mentors Lucy Gray Baird. In The Hunger Games, Katniss volunteers as tribute for the 74th Annual Hunger Games, and she's redrawn in Catching Fire for the 75th, which are specially marked as the Quarter Quell. With The Ballads of Songbirds & Snakes being 10 years after the war, it means it is set 64 years before The Hunger Games book and movie trilogy. The Hunger Games are not as developed as they are in The Hunger Games trilogy, with sponsors and betting from the Capitol audiences only just being introduced.

At this point, there is a massive amount of resentment from the Districts at the Capitol, and the war's damage is still evident. The Ballads of Songbirds & Snakes will be very different from The Hunger Gamesand is set 10 years after the war that resulted in the first annual Hunger Games.

Related: Hunger Games Prequel Will Restore What Made You Love The First Movie The Ballads of Songbirds & Snakes boasts a cast of Tom Blyth as Young Coriolanus Snow, Rachel Zegler as Lucy Gray Baird, and Hunter Schafer as Tigris Snow. As a District 12 mentor, the movie will explore how Snow develops feelings for the District 12 tribute, Lucy Gray, and his influence on the development of The Hunger Games, the propagandic battle royale entertainment of the main series. The Hunger Games prequel explains how Snow gained power and where the corruption for his rise to President started. Ballads of Songbirds & Snakes will tell the story of a young Coriolanus Snow and how his career developed from a student to a Game Maker through being a District 12 mentor and Peacekeeper.

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