Hunger Games Prequel Movie Casts Young President Snow
The Hunger Games' prequel movie The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes is building its cast with the addition of Tom Blyth as a young President Snow. The film franchise based on Suzanne Collins' novel trilogy first launched in 2012 with Jennifer Lawrence leading the cast as heroine Katniss Everdeen as her life is upended when she enters the titular survival competition and becomes the symbol of a revolution against the dystopian government rulers. Though critical reaction varied across the four films, The Hunger Games franchise was a mammoth success for Lionsgate, having grossed over $2.97 billion against its combined $495 million budget.
After initially concluding with The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 2, Lionsgate sought to revive the franchise with a spinoff, eventually getting in touch with Suzanne Collins to adapt the prequel novel The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. The studio officially ordered the movie adaptation in early 2020 with Oscar winner Michael Arndt attached to write the script on a story adaptation from Collins and primary Hunger Games director Francis Lawrence set to direct. With production eyeing a mid-2022 start date and a November 2023 release, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes has just taken its major first steps in development.
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Over two years after development was first announced on the film, Lionsgate has announced the first cast member for their The Hunger Games prequel movie, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. Tom Blyth, the star of Epix's Billy the Kid series, is set to star in the film as a younger version of President Coriolanus Snow. See Francis Lawrence's statement regarding Blyth's casting below:
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