All the rumors are true, yeah – it’s official, Rachel Zegler has indeed been cast as the female lead in the upcoming The Hunger Games prequel series!
The 21-year-old actress is having a major start to her career, as she will now star in the The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes as Lucy Gray Baird.
Lionsgate, the movie studio behind The Hunger Games franchise, confirmed the news on Tuesday (May 31) after rumors swirled over the weekend, and after Rachel sneakily confirmed the casting.
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There’s a major rumor going around this weekend about Rachel Zegler!
The West Side Story star has recently been in London filming the upcoming live action Snow White movie, but it’s now being rumored that she’s already lined up her next project.
Over the past couple of days, it’s been reported that Rachel has been cast in a leading role in the upcoming The Hunger Games prequel, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes!
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The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes has found it’s young President Snow!
The upcoming Hunger Games prequel movie is of course adapted from the book by Suzanne Collins and focuses on a young Coriolanus Snow.
Now, it was just revealed that Tom Blyth has been cast in the role, People reports.
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The upcoming movie adaptation The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes now has a release date!
The Hunger Games prequel, based on the book of the same name by Suzanne Collins, was revealed in 2021 to have a targeted release date for a late 2023/early 2024.
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The Hunger Games prequel movie The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes is still on track to be made!!
The upcoming film, a prequel about President Coriolanus Snow (originally played by Donald Sutherland), will be moving forward at Lionsgate, and we just got a new update on it’s progress.
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The Hunger Games fans, get ready!!
Francis Lawrence has signed on to direct the movie adaptation of The Hunger Games prequel The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, Deadline reports.
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes centers on Coriolanus Snow at age 18, years before he would become the tyrannical President of Panem. Young Coriolanus is handsome and charming, and though the Snow family has fallen on hard times, he sees a chance for a change in his fortunes when he is chosen to be a mentor for the Tenth Hunger Games… only to have his elation dashed when he is assigned to mentor the girl tribute from impoverished District 12.
The filmmaker also directed all four of the series’ previous films for Lionsgate, and the production company will also be bringing back quite a few of the creative team from the film franchise.
The prequel book was announced last June, and will be released by Scholasticon May 19th in print, digital and audio formats in the US, Canada, the UK and Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand.
It doesn’t look like everyone’s loving the concept of the new Hunger Games prequel series.
The popular Suzanne Collins book franchise is getting a prequel series which revolves around the character President Snow, the president of Panem. It’s called The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, and is due out in May. An excerpt was revealed on Tuesday (January 21).
The passage takes place 64 years before the events of The Hunger Games trilogy, in which he is an 18-year-old student mentoring a boy or girl who will fight in the games.
The excerpt was met with sharp criticism from fans online on social media.
“you’re telling me I waited YEARS for a new hunger games book just for it to be a president snow origin story,” one viral tweet read.
“Suzanne Collins really made us watch as president snow killed off some of our favourite characters in the hunger games series and expect me to now read the back story of a man who I’m glad is dead,” another read.
“You mean to tell me … I’ve waited years and preordered the Hunger Games sequel for it to be a President Snow origin story … about a rich white boy becoming an authoritarian who loves *checks notes* genocide?” added another fan.
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