With just a teaser out in the world so far, the movie version of Suzanne Collins’ The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes—the prequel to the Starvation Video games sequence, set six many years earlier than the revolution sparked by Katniss Everdeen—has dropped some sparkle to remind you it’s at the means. Behold, this 24k new poster!
The hue suits that of the aforementioned teaser, which contained no photos of the particular film however featured an summary snowy (ahem) scene of a songbird and snake melting into sensible gold, and asking the viewer to select aspects. The legit synopsis is as follows: “The Starvation Video games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes follows a tender Coriolanus (Tom Blyth) who’s the final hope for his failing lineage, the once-proud Snow circle of relatives that has fallen from grace in a post-war Capitol. Together with his livelihood threatened, Snow is reluctantly assigned to mentor Lucy Grey Baird (Rachel Zegler), a tribute from the impoverished District 12. However after Lucy Grey’s attraction captivates the target market of Panem, Snow sees a chance to shift their fates. With the entirety he has labored for striking within the steadiness, Snow unites with Lucy Grey to show the percentages of their prefer. Fighting his instincts for each excellent and evil, Snow units out on a race towards time to live on and disclose if he’ll in the end grow to be a songbird or a snake.”
With handiest essentially the most cursory Starvation Video games technology, you can bet which means Snow in the end went—now not for not anything did President Snow, as performed by means of Donald Sutherland in the principle film sequence, make io9’s listing of “Most Blatantly Evil Presidents in Sci-Fi Movies, TV, and Comics.” Probably the most suspenseful a part of all of this simply may well be whether or not or now not audiences are nonetheless hungering for extra Starvation Video games within the first position.
Directed by means of Starvation Video games vet Francis Lawrence and tailored from Collins’ novel by means of Michael Lesslie (Murderer’s Creed) and Michael Arndt (Little Omit Sunshine, Toy Tale 3, Famous person Wars: The Pressure Awakens), The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes stars Tom Blyth, Rachel Zegler, Peter Dinklage, Hunter Schafer, Josh Andrés Rivera, Jason Schwartzman, and Viola Davis. It’ll hit theaters November 17. Will you be testing this Starvation Video games beginning story, or staying at the sidelines?
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