Starvation Video games prequel film The Ballad Of Songbirds And Snakes continues so as to add attention-grabbing folks. Sizzling on the heels of Euphoria‘s Hunter Schafer becoming a member of the solid comes phrase that Jason Schwartzman has snagged a comparatively small however little question key position.

With franchise stalwart Francis Lawrence again directing from a script by Michael Lesslie, the movie is about years earlier than the Video games motion pictures, and focuses partly on a youthful Coriolanus Snow – later to be the tyrannical president of Panem. Right here, 18-year-old Snow (Tom Blyth), is the final hope for his fading lineage, a once-proud household that has fallen from grace in a post-war Capitol.

Because the tenth annual Starvation Video games approaches, Snow is alarmed when he’s assigned to mentor Lucy Grey Baird (Rachel Zegler), the woman tribute from impoverished District 12. However, after Lucy Grey instructions all of Panem’s consideration by defiantly singing in the course of the reaping ceremony, Snow thinks he would possibly be capable to flip the chances of their favor. Uniting their instincts for showmanship and newfound political savvy, Snow and Lucy’s race in opposition to time to outlive will finally reveal who’s a songbird and a snake…

Schwartzman shall be Lucretius “Fortunate” Flickerman, the host of the tenth annual Starvation Video games and dubbed the “voice of Panem.” Lucretius is the ancestor of Caesar Flickerman, who was performed by Stanley Tucci (with gleaming white gnashers) within the unique collection of movies.

The Starvation Video games: The Ballad Of Songbirds And Snakes is due in cinemas on 17 November subsequent 12 months.