Just as in the original films, The Hunger Games prequel features a whole lot of brutality. That might seem like a given for a story that revolves around teenagers fighting to the death, but it doesn’t make it any less harrowing when we return to Panem in The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes.
Set some 64 years prior to Katniss’ story, this time around, future president Coriolanus Snow (Tom Blyth) is brought in as a mentor to a young tribute from District 12 called Lucy Gray Baird (Rachel Zegler) for the 10th annual Hunger Games. In a much more rudimentary version of the games, which take place in a crumbling sports arena, the tributes fight to the death in a chilling spectacle.
