The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes Rating

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The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes

Color Force, Good Universe, Scholastic Entertainment

Lionsgate

Release date

November 17, 2023

My Rating

6/10

#whatonwhatsgood Fan Club Rating 

68%

Description

Synopsis: Experience the story of THE HUNGER GAMES — 64 years before Katniss Everdeen volunteered as tribute, and decades before Coriolanus Snow became the tyrannical President of Panem.

THE HUNGER GAMES: THE BALLAD OF SONGBIRDS & SNAKES follows a young Coriolanus (Tom Blyth) who is the last hope for his failing lineage, the once-proud Snow family that has fallen from grace in a post-war Capitol. With his livelihood threatened, Snow is reluctantly assigned to mentor Lucy Gray Baird (Rachel Zegler), a tribute from the impoverished District 12. But after Lucy Gray’s charm captivates the audience of Panem, Snow sees an opportunity to shift their fates. With everything he has worked for hanging in the balance, Snow unites with Lucy Gray to turn the odds in their favor. Battling his instincts for both good and evil, Snow sets out on a race against time to survive and reveal if he will ultimately become a songbird or a snake.

Directed by

Francis Lawrence

Screenplay by

Michael Lesslie and Michael Arndt

Based on

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins

Produced by

Nina Jacobson, Brad Simpson, and Francis Lawrence

The Hunger Games - The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes official poster Official poster

Starring

Tom Blyth as Coriolanus "Coryo" Snow

Rachel Zegler as Lucy Gray Baird

Peter Dinklage as Casca Highbottom

Hunter Schafer as Tigris Snow

Josh Andrés Rivera as Sejanus Plinth

Jason Schwartzman as Lucretius "Lucky" Flickerman

Viola Davis as Dr. Volumnia Gaul

Fionnula Flanagan as Grandma'am

Ashley Liao as Clemensia Dovecote

Max Raphael as Festus Creed

Zoe Renée as Lysistrata Vickers

Nick Benson as Jessup

Isobel Jesper Jones as Mayfair Lipp

Dakota Shapiro as Billy Taupe

Vaughan Reilly as Maude Ivory

Honor Gillies as Barb Azure

Eike Onyambu as Tam Amber

Konstantin Taffet as Clerk Carmine

George Somner as Spruce

Carl Spencer as Smiley

Scott Folan as Beanpole

Michael Greco and Daniela Grubert as Strabo Plinth and Mrs. Plinth

Cinematography

Jo Willems

Edited by

Mark Yoshikawa

Music by

James Newton Howard

Rachel Zegler as Lucy Gray Baird and Tom Blyth as Coriolanus Snow in The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes.
Rachel Zegler as Lucy Gray Baird and Tom Blyth as Coriolanus Snow in The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes.

Tom Blyth as Coriolanus Snow and Rachel Zegler as Lucy Gray Baird in The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes
Tom Blyth as Coriolanus Snow and Rachel Zegler as Lucy Gray Baird in The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes

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