The first trailer for The Hunger Games prequel The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes has been released. Lionsgate unveiled the hotly anticipated teaser for the film which takes place 64 years before the events of The Hunger Games quadrilogy starring Jennifer Lawrence.
The hugely successful film franchise takes place in the dystopian ruins of North America in the Capitol of a nation now known as Panem. Each year, a boy and a girl ‘tribute’ from each of the 12 districts is forced to compete in The Hunger Games, a televised fight to the death.
The upcoming blockbuster explores the backstory of the Games’ president Coriolanus Snow, the villain of the previous films played by Donald Sutherland. The new footage offers a first look at Birmingham-born Tom Blyth as a teenage Snow, alongside footage of West Side Story star Rachel Zegler as Lucy Gray Baird, the District 12 tribute.
