This week Lionsgate finally unveiled the first trailer for The Hunger Games prequel, The Ballad of Songbirds And Snakes, and there’s a lot there to unpack. The first look at one of 2023’s highly-anticipated upcoming book adaptations had a number of callbacks to the original movie franchise, including the introduction of one character that has the internet hilariously realizing Stanley Tucci’s Caesar Flickerman has been a nepo baby all along.
The trailer gave audiences a glimpse at The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes stacked cast, including Jason Schwartzman’s role as Lucretius “Lucky” Flickerman, who hosted the Hunger Games decades before his relative Caesar did. Given the nepo baby discourse going viral as of late, fans are having a field day with this detail. Check it out:
