The Starvation Video games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes director explains how Lucy Grey Baird is the alternative of Katniss Everdeen.
Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) was the face of The Starvation Video games franchise, however the upcoming prequel shall be introducing a complete new forged, together with Lucy Grey Baird (Rachel Zegler). Whereas talking with Empire, The Starvation Video games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes director Francis Lawrence teased simply how totally different this new tribute is from Katniss.
“Katniss was an introvert and a survivor,” Francis Lawrence stated. “She was fairly quiet and stoic, you may virtually say [she was] asexual. Lucy Grey is the alternative. She wears her sexuality on her sleeve, [and] she actually is a performer.” In contrast to Katniss, Lucy Grey “loves crowds” and “is aware of how you can play crowds and manipulate folks.“
Happening many years earlier than the unique films, The Starvation Video games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes stars Tom Blyth as Coriolanus Snow, the longer term ruler of Panem who isn’t fairly as sadistic this early in his life. The movie additionally stars Rachel Zegler as Lucy Grey Baird, Jason Schwartzman as Lucretius “Fortunate” Flickerman, and Hunter Schafer as Tigris Snow. Francis Lawrence, who beforehand directed Catching Fireplace, Mockingjay Half One, and Mockingjay Half Two, returned to helm the prequel from a screenplay by Michael Lesslie and Michael Arndt based mostly on Suzanne Collins’ The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes.
Ought to the prequel show to achieve success, I’d think about that it received’t be the final we see of Panem; and hell, if Jennifer Lawrence is sport to return as Katniss Everdeen, it would simply occur.
The Starvation Video games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes “follows a younger Coriolanus who’s the final hope for his failing lineage, the once-proud Snow household that has fallen from grace in a post-war Capitol. Together with his livelihood threatened, Snow is reluctantly assigned to mentor Lucy Grey Baird, a tribute from the impoverished District 12. However after Lucy Grey’s attraction captivates the viewers of Panem, Snow sees a possibility to shift their fates. With all the things he has labored for hanging within the stability, Snow unites with Lucy Grey to show the percentages of their favor. Battling his instincts for each good and evil, Snow units out on a race towards time to outlive and reveal if he’ll finally turn out to be a songbird or a snake.“
The Starvation Video games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes shall be launched in theaters on November seventeenth.