The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes‘ Tom Blyth is set for a role in another literary adaptation. Blyth played future Panem president Coriolanus Snow in the new movie, which is a prequel to the four Hunger Games movies that originally premiered between 2012 and 2015. He stars opposite Rachel Zegler as Lucy Gray Baird, a District 12 tribute for the 10th annual Hunger Games with whom Snow forms a romantic and potentially dangerous bond.
Per The Hollywood Reporter, the Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes star has just been cast in an upcoming adaptation of Ernest Hemingway’s novel A Farewell to Arms. Tom Blyth will be playing the lead role of Frederic Henry, a World War I ambulance driver who is injured in Italy and falls in love with his nurse. This new adaptation of the 1929 novel is being helmed by Michael Winterbottom, the director of 2010’s The Trip and its follow-ups The Trip to Italy and The Trip to Spain.
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The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
- Release Date:
- 2023-11-17
- Director:
- Array
- Cast:
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- Rating:
- Not Yet Rated
- Main Genre:
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- Genres:
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- Writers:
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- Summary:
- Based on the novel of the same name by Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games: Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes is a prequel to the original Hunger Games franchise set sixty-four years before the events of the first film/book. The story follows Coriolanus Snow before his rise to power as the cold and calculating President Snow. To escape his impoverished life and secure the tuition he needs to attend the University, Snow will partner with a tribute he is assigned to mentor and help her succeed to benefit the both of them.
- Story By:
- Suzanne Collins
- Characters By:
- Suzanne Collins
- Sequel:
- The Hunger Games
- Cinematographer:
- Jo Willems
- Producer:
- Nina Jacobson, Francis Lawrence, Brad Simpson
- Production Company:
- Color Force, Good Universe, Lionsgate
- Main Characters :
- Lucy Gray Baird, Tigris Snow, Lucretius ‘Lucky’ Flickerman, Sejanus Plinth, Casca Highbottom, Dr. Volumnia Gaul, Coriolanus Snow
- Sfx Supervisor:
- Claudius Rauch
- Distributor :
- Lionsgate
- Assistant Director :
- Christopher Surgent
