August 8, 2017: Lionsgate CEO, Jon Feltheimer suggested that the company was on board with producing new instalments of the Hunger Games, as long as series creator Suzanne Collins was on board.With the date set for 17 November 2023, it is likely that the film will find a streaming release in the months following it coming out in the cinema.

Set to follow the release schedule of other films in the Hunger Games franchise, Catching Fire, Mockingjay Part 1 and 2, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes is set to be released in cinemas in November. The wider cast includes Eike Onyambu, Konstantin Taffet, Burn Gorman, Scott Folan, Carl Spencer, Michael Greco and Daniela Grubert who all contribute to the unnerving world of the The Hunger Games prequel. Mayfair Lipp, a politician's daughter is played by Isobel Jesper Jones and Honor Gillies plays a character named Barb Azure. Tony Award nominee Fionnula Flanagan is Grandma'am to Coriolanus Snow and Flora Li Thiemann portrays the tribute mentor Livia Carden. Acclaimed actress and multi-award-winner Viola Davis portrays a new character named Volumnia Gaul who is known as the Head Gamemaker. Other casting news includes Josh Andres Rivera as Sejanus Plinth, a Hunger Games mentor who is friends with Snow and Hunter Schafer to star as Tigris, Snow’s cousin. The film adaptation will star Tom Blyth as a young Coriolanus Snow and Rachel Zegler as Lucy Gray Baird. Collins will serve as an executive producer for the The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes. The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes is an adaptation of the 2020 spin-off prequel book written by series creator Suzanne Collins. It is set to be directed by Francis Lawrence, who has directed every Hunger Games film since The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013). It serves as a prequel to The Hunger Games (2012) and is the fifth film within the Hunger Games franchise. The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes is an upcoming sci-fi dystopian adventure film.

Set before the time of Katniss Everdeen and the resulting Hunger Games stories, The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes tells the story of a young Snow training Lucy Gray to be victorious in the Hunger Games and as their relationship develops so too does his thirst for control and power, charting his rise to the top. A top student at the Academy in Panem, Snow became the mentor for District 12’s tribute Lucy Gray Baird and ot would not be the last time a tribute from District 12 would have a huge impact on the life of Coriolanus Snow. Born into a family of high-status but decreasing wealth, Snow must use his charisma and intelligence to forge a path. Coriolanus Snow was not always the tyrannical and ruthless president he would become.

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