The Hunger Games Prequel: Everything We Know So Far

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Seven years afterMockingjay Part 2 was released, a new Hunger Games prequel film is in the works, based on author Suzanne Collins' book of the same name, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. Released in 2020, Ballad focuses on the most hated character in the Hunger Games trilogy, President Snow, to provide his villain origin story.

Ballad is the fifth installment in the Hunger Games film series, which has amassed almost $3 billion worldwide and boasts four of the top five highest-grossing films in Lionsgate history. As well as returning to Panem, fans can look forward to a new cast and new characters, too. From the cast members involved in Ballad to when it will be released, here's everything fans of the franchise need to know about the upcoming movie.

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Ballad is set 64 years before the events of the Hunger Games series, around the time of the 10th annual Hunger Games. President Snow is not yet the tyrannical leader of Panem that viewers have come to hate, but 18-year-old Coriolanus «Coryo» Snow, whose life is somewhat tragic. His once-proud family has fallen on hard times, and he is their last hope of redemption.

As one of the top-performing students of Panem's Academy — an elite secondary school in the Capitol for wealthy children — Snow thinks he's found his lucky break when he's selected to mentor a tribute chosen to compete in the 10th Hunger Games. However, his hopes are dashed when he discovers his mentee is Lucy Gray Baird from the impoverished District 12, home to Jennifer Lawrence's Katniss Everdeen. Fortunately, Lucy also shares Katniss' rebellious spirit, and once Snow sees this for himself, he starts to think he might be able to turn the odds in their favor.

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