“They’ve got to let the body get cold,” said Jennifer Lawrence, when asked about her appetite for a Hunger Games prequel. Eight years on, the body has been deemed fit for resuscitation, though with JLaw nowhere in sight.In the original Hunger Games, based on Suzanne Collins’ wildly popular YA novels, we saw the dystopian nation of Panem through the eyes of Jennifer Lawrence’s underdog, Katniss Everdeen, who came from the country’s poorest district, 12. This prequel plays out from a different vantage point: that of series villain and future president, Coriolanus Snow.
