Hunger Games: Release Date for Prequel

Lionsgate announced the release date of the Hunger Games saga prequel to CinemaCon in Las Vegas last night. An adaptation of Susan Collins’s dystopian novel, The Ballad of the Snake and the Singing Bird, will be released in American cinemas on Thanksgiving Day, November 17, 2023 (hence, probably 15 in France). The symbolic date L’embrasement and La Révolte, parts 1 and 2 were released simultaneously.

Published in 2020, The Ballad of the Snake and the Singer Is a prequel to the history of Ketniss, which focuses on the youth of the tyrannical president Snow (played by Donald Sutherland in the saga films).

The story unfolds 64 years before the Hunger Games, in the years following the “Dark Days” period, the first failed uprising in Panama. We follow the young Coriolanus Snow, 18, the next president of Panem. The latter sees a chance to change his fate when he is chosen as Lucy Gray Baird’s mentor, a 12th precinct tribute.

The feature film, shot earlier this year, is directed by Francis Lawrence, who is already in control of the last 3 parts of the parent saga, and is written by Susan Collins, Michael Leslie and Michael Arndt, Oscar winner Little Miss. The sun and has been in the service of L’embrasement.

It is still unknown who will play Young Snow in this prequel.

Led by Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson and Liam Hemsworth, the Hunger Games franchise, which ended in 2015, grossed $ 3 billion at the international box office. Lionsgate president Joe Drake said he is confident the public will be happy to find this world on the big screen.