The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (2023) on Netflix
PG-1320232h 37mActionAdventureDrama
In war-ravaged Panem, Coriolanus Snow mentors Lucy Gray Baird, District 12's tribute in the 10th Hunger Games. A scholarship for the winning tribute's mentor could restore his family's fortunes.
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Plot summary
The 10th Annual Hunger Games approach in a war-ravaged Panem, and Coriolanus Snow is selected to serve as a mentor. He hopes the Plinth Prize scholarship, awarded to the mentor of the winning tribute, will restore his family's prosperity. He is assigned Lucy Gray Baird, District 12's female tribute, who draws attention by singing to the crowd at the televised reaping. He gains Lucy's confidence during a visit to the Capitol Zoo, where the tributes are held in public cages. Lucy Gray belongs to the Covey, a group of traveling musicians. His friend Sejanus Plinth is also a fellow mentor, and his cousin Tigris is a confidante.
Cast
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (2023)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Rachel Zegler was offered the role of tribute Lucy Gray Baird in January 2022 and turned it down, later changing her mind; she was cast that May alongside Tom Blyth as the young President Snow.
- Screenwriter Michael Lesslie said that while he wrote the script, author Suzanne Collins insisted everything about Lucy Gray Baird be limited to what Coriolanus Snow could witness, to preserve the mystery of her fate.
- Worried about the book's length, director Francis Lawrence briefly considered splitting the film in two like The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 and Part 2, but dropped the idea because of his regrets over that decision.
- On October 30, 2023, the film received an interim agreement allowing its actors to promote it during the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike, because Lionsgate is not part of the AMPTP.
SPOILER
Archival audio of Donald Sutherland as the older President Coriolanus Snow, taken from Mockingjay - Part 1, plays at the end of the film; it was his final performance as Snow, as he died on June 20, 2024.
