The Hunger Games prequel film is finally here with The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes which premiered in theaters November 17th. The film is set 64 years before Katniss Everdeen volunteered as tribute, and decades before Coriolanus Snow became the tyrannical President of Panem. With his livelihood threatened, Snow is assigned to mentor Lucy Gray Baird, a tribute from District 12. It stars Tom Blyth (Billy The Kid), Rachel Zegler (West Side Story), Peter Dinklage (Game of Thrones), Hunter Schafer (Euphoria), Josh Andrés Rivera (West Side Story), Jason Schwartzman (Asteroid City), and Viola Davis (The Woman King).
We share our first thoughts of the film in our spoiler-free video review below.
The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes Review