{"id":62614,"date":"2022-08-16T22:37:18","date_gmt":"2022-08-16T22:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/?post_type=articles&#038;p=62614"},"modified":"2022-08-16T23:30:49","modified_gmt":"2022-08-16T23:30:49","slug":"the-hunger-games-prequel-rachel-zegler-tom-blyth","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/the-hunger-games-prequel-rachel-zegler-tom-blyth\/","title":{"rendered":"See Rachel Zegler and Tom Blyth in &#8216;The Hunger Games\u2019 Prequel First Look"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_62615\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-62615\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-62615 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2022\/08\/Hunger-Games-Prequel-.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"853\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-62615\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rachel Zegler as Lucy Gray Baird and Tom Blyth as Coriolanus Snow in The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. (Photo Credit: Murray Close\/Lionsgate)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>May the odds be ever in your favor<\/em>. The forthcoming <a href=\"https:\/\/hungergames.movie\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Hunger Games<\/em> prequel<\/a>, titled<em>\u00a0The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes<\/em>, is welcoming a star-studded cast to the Capitol in the official first-look that was released this week. <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/west-side-story-and-being-the-ricardos-fashion-transports-us-back-to-the-1950s\/\"><em>West Side Story<\/em><\/a> actress <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/best-dressed-west-side-story-red-carpet\/\">Rachel Zegler<\/a> will star as Lucy Gray Baird while <em>The Gilded Age<\/em>\u2019s Tom Blyth will star as Coriolanus Snow in the adaptation based on the novel of the same name by Suzanne Collins.<\/p>\n<p>Joining the starry cast also include <em>Euphoria<\/em>\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/hunter-schaefer-hunger-games-cast\/\">Hunter Schafer<\/a>, Jason Schwartzman, and <em>Game of Thrones<\/em>\u2019 Peter Dinklage. In more news, Academy Award-winning actress <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/the-first-lady-fashion-history\/\">Viola Davis<\/a> has just been announced as the film\u2019s Head Gamemaker.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_62616\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-62616\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-62616 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2022\/08\/GettyImages-1184046935.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"852\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-62616\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Viola Davis attends the red carpet during the 14th Rome Film Festival on October 26, 2019 in Rome, Italy. (Photo by Stefania D&#8217;Alessandro\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Set 60-some years before we knew Coriolanus Snow as the despotic President of Panem (played by Donald Sutherland), <em>The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes<\/em> introduces him as the 18-year-old heir to a once-illustrious family that has lost its power in the post-war period, played by Blyth.<\/p>\n<p>In preparation for the 10<sup>th<\/sup> annual Hunger Games, Snow is tasked with mentoring Lucy Gray Baird (Zegler), a tribute from the poverty-stricken District 12, where Jennifer Lawrence\u2019s Katniss Everdeen was from in the original story.<\/p>\n<p>After Lucy Gray sings during the reaping ceremony in protest, she captures the attention of all of Panem, leading Snow to believe they may be able to tip the odds in her favor. Fusing their political prowess and instinct for strategy, Snow begins to develop feelings for Lucy Gray as they fight to survive.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes Teaser (2023) | Movieclips Trailers\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8lWFn2_quR8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>While Davis will portray the film\u2019s arch-villain Dr. Volumnia Gaul, Schafer has been cast as Coriolanus\u2019 cousin and ally, Tigris Snow, and Dinklage will play the accidental creator of the Hunger Games, Casca Highbottom.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/hollywood\/2022\/08\/hunger-games-ballad-songbirds-snakes-prequel-first-look\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Vanity Fair<\/em><\/a> was the first to release the new imagery, depicting Snow and Lucy Gray romantically lounging on a blanket in the grass, holding hands and looking up at the sky. In speaking with the outlet, director Francis Lawrence revealed, &#8220;This is very much a story about love. It&#8217;s the kind of love story set in a different kind of a world in a different time. A very intimate love story.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Producer Nina Jacobson told the publication of Snow, &#8220;He is a young man finding his way in the world, but he also makes choices that presage the man he is becoming. He is a shapeshifter who craves control, but is drawn to a woman who threatens everything he thought he wanted.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes <\/em>is set to premiere on\u00a0November 17, 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31863,"featured_media":62615,"template":"","format":"standard","categories":[38,3324,16],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v18.5 (Yoast SEO v20.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>See Rachel Zegler and Tom Blyth in the New &#039;Hunger Games\u2019 Prequel<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The new &#039;Hunger Games&#039; prequel &#039;The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes&#039; dropped a first-look at the film starring Rachel Zegler and Tom Blyth\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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