The Hunger Games prequel teaser out. Here's how fans are reacting
On June 5, during the MTV Movie and TV awards, Lionsgate premiered the first teaser of the Hunger Games prequel titled The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes.
The teaser shows a golden snake slithering towards a golden bird on a tree, while both animals defrost.
Watch the teaser here:
The prequel will star Tom Blyth as a young Coriolanus Snow, before Snow became President of Panem and Rachel Zegler as Lucy Gray Baird, a tribute from District 12 in the 10th annual Hunger Games.
The official synopsis of the Ballad reads, 'Years before he would become the tyrannical President of Panem, 18-year-old Coriolanus Snow is the last hope for his fading lineage, a once-proud family that has fallen from grace in a post-war Capitol.”
“With the 10th annual Hunger Games fast approaching, the young Snow is alarmed when he is assigned to mentor Lucy Gray Baird, the girl tribute from impoverished District 12. But, after Lucy Gray commands all of Panem's attention by defiantly singing during the reaping ceremony, Snow thinks he might be able to turn the odds in their favour. Uniting their instincts for showmanship and newfound political savvy, Snow and Lucy's race against time to survive will ultimately reveal who is a songbird, and who is a snake,” the synopsis continues.
With the release of the teaser, longtime Hunger Games fans are overjoyed. Here is how fans are reacting on Twitter:
1. HYSTERICAL FEELING
seeing the hunger games in that font again with the songbird symbol behind it has made me hysterical pic.twitter.com/MCFmwtea6l
— amy (@meIIarkk) June 5, 2022
2. A REAL MOVIE
the hunger games franchise is coming back to remind the girls what REAL movies look like pic.twitter.com/nqxfZ9WaUi
— emilio is rewatching glee (@emilionreasons) June 6, 2022
3. A FOREVER HOLD ON US
the hold hunger games has on me should be studied
— jess (@wIwsarahs) June 5, 2022
4. PEAK EXCITEMENT
Me watching the Hunger Games: Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes teaser… pic.twitter.com/T1lLSCKiNj
— Christian Paystrup (@ChristianPayst1) June 5, 2022
5. A SONG BY MITSKI
whoever is in charge of the new hunger games movie should stop being afraid of success and ask mitski to write a song for it I DARE YOU https://t.co/qpIWzoRm6l
— mitski's archive (@mitskithoughts) June 6, 2022
6. ZEGLER IS MAKING GREAT MOVES
Rachel Zegler going from leading Steven Spielberg’s WEST SIDE STORY in her *film debut* to co-starring in a major DC sequel to being the star of Disney’s live-action adaptation of SNOW WHITE to playing the female lead in the HUNGER GAMES prequel… it’s a little bit iconic to me https://t.co/Gcm9NdUBED
— Zoë Rose Bryant (@ZoeRoseBryant) May 31, 2022
rachel zegler is INSANE her first film is a spielberg film (which she won a golden globe for) then disney for snow white (??!?!) and now a HUNGER GAMES film are u KIDDING ME and she only started three years ago ?:&):&:$:
— sol (@filmsbysol) May 29, 2022
Rachel Zegler must have the greatest agent in modern Hollywood history. Has a Spielberg movie, a DC movie, a Disney movie and in The Hunger Games series, all in one shot.
— Shaurya Chawla (@_ShauryaChawla) May 31, 2022
7. HUNGER GAMES FIRST, HUMAN LATER
I apologize in advance for the person I will become when this movie comes out, I am a hunger games stan first, human second https://t.co/fVlpNzguQ4
— ariana ? (@Arigzz_) June 7, 2022
8. A LORDE SONG IS A MUST
If Lorde made the soundtrack for the next Hunger Games movie, a concept ? pic.twitter.com/G8eDieFvJg
— gabo ☼ (@lordespower) June 7, 2022
9. THE SNAKE, BIRD AND MY CHILDHOOD OBSESSION ARE DEFROSTING
My childhood hunger games obsession is defrosting as we speak https://t.co/ThuxwMIM6T
— ella ? (@soleissunnies) June 6, 2022
10. FEELING LIKE A TEENAGER AGAIN
IM SOBBING LIKE FULL ON UGLY CRYING the hunger games I am so ready to be obsessed with you again I feel like a teenager again this is actually insane ??? https://t.co/5EkrBo8GS4
— Emily ?️? (@emilywritestuff) June 5, 2022
11. SHOW THEM HOW A REAL DYSTOPIAN FILM IS DONE
The hunger games franchise is returning to show the girls how a real dystopian film is done ?? https://t.co/Q0HyVQPFnU
— Martín (@martinsilvamtz) June 6, 2022
The film will be in theaters on November 17, 2023. The Hunger Games films are based on a book series of the same name by Suzanne Collins.