And it will feature the origin story of our favourite villain.
universe looked very different. Back then, Coriolanus Snow – the white-haired president of Panem, played with elegant malevolence by the incomparable Donald Sutherland in the four cinematic adaptations of Suzanne Collins’s best-selling trilogy – was only an ambitious teenager. Despite being orphaned and teetering on the edge of poverty, he managed to excel at the Academy and was assigned to mentor a tribute for the 10th Hunger Games: the fierce Lucy Gray Baird from District 12.
Their relationship, as well as the blood-soaked tournament which set Snow on the path to tyranny, is the focus of Collins’s 2020 prequelOn 28 April, CinemaCon attendees were given a first glimpse of the upcoming action epic – an enigmatic teaser featuring shots of thawing ice and the words: “The world will discover who is a songbird and who is a snake.