Ballad Of Songbirds & Snakes Will Be Very Different For Hunger Games Fans

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While The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes will be returning to the world of Panem, the film is expected to have significant differences from the original The Hunger Games movie quartet. Based on the book of the same name by The Hunger Games author Suzanne Collins, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes will be directed by Francis Lawrence, who also took on the last three Hunger Games movies. However, unlike its predecessor, The Ballad of Songbirds And Snakes is set 64 years before the first film's events, following a young Coriolanus Snow's (Tom Blyth) rise to power.

The original novel shows Snow as a young Hunger Games mentor during the 10th annual Hunger Games, where he is chosen to oversee a young female tribute named Lucy Gray Baird (Rachel Zegler). Similar to Katniss Everdeen, Lucy is from the impoverished District 12 and also showed an act of defiance during the reaping ceremony, where she took Panem by surprise by singing a song. Through this, Snow realizes that despite Lucy's background, he could utilize this for both of their benefits. Overall, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes is expected to show how Snow becomes the callous leader from The Hunger Games and the lengths he was willing to go to politically to secure himself as a powerful individual in the world of Panem.

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What ultimately separates The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes from The Hunger Games is that it focuses solely on the Games, encompassing all of the politics and scandals that eventually turned the Games into what they became in The Hunger Games. However, this slight difference may be an exciting shift for lovers of the franchise. While the original Hunger Games books and